Moodle LMS
Introduction
Moodle LMS is the open source learning management system with inherent security and privacy features
used by hundreds of millions of learners worldwide
Moodle LMS allows educators in any sector to create flexible, safe, accessible and highly engaging online
spaces for their learners.
Moodle LMS is an open source secure, feature-rich software platform
runs on any computer server and all common devices to create a web-based online learning space containing
“courses” full of resources and activities.
These course spaces are where educators create and arrange a wide array of resources and activities into a
rich learning experience where enrolled learners have the ability to interact and work with each other to
achieve the learning goals of the course.
Moodle Highlights
Open Source
Flexible Learning
Security and Privacy
Mobile Learning
Easy Integration
Accessible to All
Open Source
Complete Ownership -
free and open source
Change the way it works by writing new code to add new features to moodle
Control security and privacy
Customize look and feel of the interface
Extend the functionality of your Moodle site to meet your needs using a huge
ecosystem of Plugins and Certified Integrations with third party software.
Flexible Learning
support deep collaborative learning through group activities like
Wikis or Forums;
foster peer review in Workshops;
encourage self reflection in Blogs,
review learners’ progress through Checklist;
provide tasks that allow for active participation,
exploration and experimentation through Assignments or Quiz;
keep learners up to date with course requirements or changes with Calendar,
Notifications and Messaging, Moodle can support your online education style.
Moodle LMS includes a variety of ways to monitor and measure your students’
progress.
Record and manage your students achievements through Moodle’s Gradebook
Educators can create individualised or group learning plans based on
Competencies and scales.
Allow your learners to view their own plans so they can see the associated
competencies and track their own progress towards achieving them and use
Learning analytics to receive insights to predict and support students at risk of
failing.
Manage the sequence or timing of learners’ completion of tasks with Activity
completion plus Moodle’s Restrict access feature enables you to restrict the
availability of any activity or even a course section based on dates, completion of
previous activities or grades achieved.
Moodle LMS allows you to reward learner progress and encourage engagement.
Badges, which are standard to Moodle
Course certificate, a Moodle plugin, allows for the dynamic generation of
certificates based on predefined conditions set by you.
Utilise Moodle’s vast library of gamification plugins to motivate and reward learner
accomplishment.
Security and Privacy
As an open source platform, Moodle LMS enables complete control over your
data to meet your local legislation requirements
As an open source project, global community is constantly reviewing source code
and collaborating on making it more secure through well-established processes.
privacy compliance features allow you to configure your Moodle site to meet the
local privacy legislation requirements, including some of the best GDPR
compliance on any education platform.
Moodle has built-in tools to manage privacy and site policies, age-of-consent
checks, data collection purpose and retention periods, as well as perform data
exports and handle deletion requests.
Mobile Learning
Support learning from any device
Moodle App improves the experience of Moodle LMS on touch screen devices and
allows learners to access all your content, submit activities and complete
assignments from their devices.
Mobile notifications help to keep learners in the loop, no matter where they are.
Moodle App allows courses to be downloaded onto mobile devices, helping
learners with limited data plans or bad connectivity.
Accessible to All
Moodle LMS provides you a pedagogical toolbox that is designed from a social
constructionist point of view that empowers you to build your own education
platform to teach the way you want, to any number (or age) of learners.
Moodle is being translated into over 100 languages so you can use Moodle in your
language, or even multiple languages at once!
Easy Integration
Integrate Moodle with video conferencing for live meetings; Student Information Systems, plagiarism
detection; portfolios, popular document suite, content repositories and thousands more.
As a member of several Edtech standards bodies and signatory of the Standards First Pledge, moodle
supports a number of common standards for getting data in and out of Moodle.
For example moodle support SCORM and AICC for content packages; IMS-LTI for external apps;
