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Course Management Systems

Moodle is an open-source course management system designed to host online courses and facilitate academic interaction between students and their instructors . The program was created by Martin Dougiamas , who formerly worked with WebCT . Because of this the program features many similarities to WebCT , but is more flexible overall due to its open-source nature

Moodle can be accessed via more than eighteen-thousand registered websites and is used by approximately eight million students worldwide The program supports sixty-one languages as of November 2006 and is constantly expanding . Students simply download the program , register

a username and connect using an enrollment key code provided by their professor . The site can host single teacher classes , or link various classes within an academic institution . Moodle also offers the option of designing complete lessons online , which can consist of class material as well as optional end-of-chapter review questions

Instructors have a variety of options for posting assignments on Moodle , and can set their own preferences on how student submitted s can be accepted for grading . Teachers have the option to allow students to upload s , including text documents of various formats as well as images . After grading the instructor has the option to post grades directly , as well as leaving comments regarding their response to the assignment . They can also format assignments for direct editing online allowing students to type their response directly into the program and submit it for grading . Instructors can also use Moodle as an online grade book for assignments complete in class (offline , so that students can have easy access to their grades

Quizzes can be constructed and assigned to students in Moodle as well with several format options available . Teachers can design tests consisting of various question formats , including multiple choice true-or-false and short answer questions . They also have the option of giving students multiple attempts to complete the quiz , and can set other variables such as time limits (quiz is timed and may only be completed within the allotted time limit , or password protection to limit access

Students have a variety of options for interacting with fellow classmates as well as the instructors via chat , forums and surveys . They can also access course-relevant resources via glossaries (which can be student or teacher-defined ) and a fully-interactive Wiki (user-defined encyclopedia Course Management Systems - Moodle

Sources

Moodle - A Free , Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning ( HYPERLINK "http /moodle .org " http /moodle .org

Moodle - Wikipedia ( HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Moodle http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Moodle

Moodle School New Zealand (http /www .moodle .school .nz...

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