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Product sheet: Moodle 1.4.1

  • LMS name: Moodle
  • Brief description: Moodle is one of the most popular LMS and is currently living an explosive expansion all over the world. Its users and developers community is very large and enthusiastic about the system. One of the main characteristics of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy.
  • Link to the official project page: http://www.moodle.org
  • Evaluation sheet: Moodle evaluation sheet
  • Evaluation date: 2004/10/12

Technical sheet
Product name
 Moodle
Development team
 In 1999 Martin Dougiamas (Australia) initiated the Moodle project. Nowadays it has over 100 collaborators among  developers (over 50), translators (over 40), beta-testers ...
Support team
http://www.moodle.com provides a range of optional commercial services for Moodle users, including fully-serviced Moodle hosting, remote support contracts, custom code development and consulting.
Version number of latest release
 1.4.1.
Technology used PHP
Operating Systems supported
 Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Netware and other system that supports PHP.

Database/software requirements
 PHP version 4.1.0. or later. Any web server that supports PHP (most people use Apache). MySQL and PostgreSQL databases are best supported, but it can also be used with Oracle, Access, Interbase, ODBC and others.
License type
 GPL
E-Learning standards supported SCORM 1.2 and IMS-QTI import
Languages available
 40 languages including Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and US versions), Finnish, French (France and Canada versions), German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Caribbean versions), Swedish, Thai and Turkish.
Main features
 The main feature of Moodle, apart from its grounding  in social constructionist pedagogy, is its very large and continously increasing community of users which gives to the system an enormous vitality.
Is a course content management included?
 Moodle allows to create and manage courses and tests.
Positive aspects
  • The system is very intuitive and easy to use
  • It is translated to more than 40 languages
  • It is supported by a large community of users and developers
Aspects to be improved
  • Ongoing Moodle Documentation Project based on Wiki
  • Ongoing work on a repository on developed modules
  • Ongoing work at the customization of the layout of the system using templates
  • Moodle does not support accessibility specifications
  • Moodle does not support SCORM 1.2. export and other elearning standards
Main installations in the world
 Thousands of installations around the world listed in http://www.moodle.org/sites
Installations in Spain
 In Spain, hundred of installations listed in http://www.moodle.org/sites
Notes The Moodle is living an spectacular develepment phase all over the world. Its large community ensures the quality and continuity of the project. It's definetively an option to be seriously taken into account when selecting an open source LMS.
Link to demo version
 http://www.moodle.org


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