Moodle

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Moodle

• Presented by
• Noriel Tumangday
• Aj de Ocampo
• Jason Jamora

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Background

• URL www.moodle.org
• Developed by Martin Dougiamas
• He released version 1.0 of moodle on August 20,
  2002
• As moodle has spread and the community has grown,
  more input is being drawn from a wider variety of
  people in different teaching situations.
• An important feature of the Moodle Project is the
  moodle.org
• In the year 2003, moodle.com was launched.

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What is moodle?

• Moodle is a course management system (CMS), a
  free, Open Source software package designed using
  sound pedagogical principles, to help educators
  create effective online learning communities.

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What is moodle? (cont.)

• Pedagogical principles has 4 main concepts
• Contructivism
• Constructionism
• Social Construtivism
• Connected and Separate

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What is moodle? (cont.)

• -Moodle has a large and diverse user community
  with over 50,000 users registered in this site
  alone, speaking 60 languages in 115 countries.
• - The word moodle was originally an acronym for
  Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning System,
  which is mostly useful to programmers and
  educations theorists

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Technical Specifications

• Any web server software. Apache is the most
  commonly used.
• PHP Scripting Language (version 4.1.0 or later)
• Working database server Recommended ones are
  MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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Moodle Highlights

• Shows the courses where the student is currently
  enrolled on
• Administration can keep track of what the student
  does (Activity report)
• e.g. how many times he viewed a certain topic
• Their main feature is their software packages
  being an open source meaning free to be
  distributed and to be modified by the users

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Demo Site

• DLS-CSB Learning Management System
• http//moodle1.dls-csb.edu.ph/moodle/