1. EDUNET Seminar 21-23. March 2011
Moodle- course
management system
Lecture of
Yuliya Lyalina, FH Düsseldorf,
ONPU

2. What is ?
 Open Source Course Management System (CMS),
also known as a Learning Management System (LMS)
or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
 Is used as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites and
to manage educational content.
 To work, it needs to be installed on a web server, either on
one at a web hosting company.
 You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle if you agree
to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original
license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative
work
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3. history
 Moodle development started as doctoral research by an
Australian, Martin Dougiamas. Today, Moodle has attracted
a long list of developers devoted to Moodle improvements.
Figure 1 shows the Moodle site at www.moodle.org, where
you will find additional information about developers and
users, as well as links for downloading the application itself.
 moodle Intro
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4. users
 Figure 1 The top 10 LMSs in use by 1,932 business
organizations, as reported by eLearning Guild members in
the last year. (Source: Guild Research)
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5. users
 Figure 2 The top 10 LMSs in use by 668 education
organizations, as reported by eLearning Guild members in
the last year. (Source: Guild Research)
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6. Advantges
 Lower total cost for ownership.
 Higher levels of security.
 Peer review.
 Greater flexibility.
 Ability to customize by modifying code.
 Audit ability and code availability.
 Technical support.
 Well-tested updates and plug-ins.
 Variety of capabilities and tools.
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7. advantages
 Is easy to update.
 Works in any operating system supporting PHP.
 Demands only one database and can be used together with
other applications.
 Pays special attention on safety at any level; you can add
your own policy agreement.
 Is easy to create your own interface, changing design of the
site.
 Contains the list of courses with their description on a
server, giving access to this information for visitors.
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8. advantages
 Can support thousand of courses.
Courses are divided into categories-
 Allows to edit the majority of text elements (resources,
forums, wikis, glossary etc.), using integrated HTML editor-
 Allows to integrate more than 80 language packages. You
can change language only using the web-interface-
 Is written on PHP under GPL license. The code can be
easily changed under requirements-
 Web-based testing eliminates the cost and effort of printing,
distributing, and collecting test papers.
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9. Disadvantges
 The ability to integrate with human resource
systems.
 The ability to integrate well between student
administration. systems and Moodle student
information.
 The ability to support specific and complex business-
process models.
 The ability to use a distributed administration model to
support multiple “schools” and “departments”.
 The polished look of proprietary software, (it has a flat
structure for organizing and navigating learning
materials).
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11. Disadvantges
 Sophisticated assessment and grading capabilities.
 Efficient use of space, e.g., a fixed block at the top that
wastes valuable screen “real estate”.
 Is complicated to gather all statistical information from the
whole system.
 Requires that someone of your staff takes responsibility for
making it work.
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12. Example of educational portal
http://edu.pi-lab.de/
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13. Example of educational portal
http://telelabor.de/
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14. can be used in :
 Committee work (Using Files, discussion forum, Calendar
and Quickmail)
 Projects – (Using Files, discussion forum, Calendar and
Quickmail)
 Sharing files and information
 Training – Professional development
 Run a survey
 Use the Choice tool to Get a quick group feedback.
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15. EduNet educational portal
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16. Summary
 We are focusing on Moodle because of its rapidly growing
presence; because a global community of professionals and
educators who are very passionate about promoting free
software and improving the online learning experience
supports it.
Moodle will work, but not by itself. If teaching staff are not
given the responsibility for producing content, and if there is
not a “course author or designer” that can work with both
teachers and technicians in creating on-line materials, then
Moodle, or any other LMS, will remain an empty shell - like a
good car but with no driver.
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17. Thank you
for your
attention!!!
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