¿What is Moodle and what is it for?
Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and students with a single, robust and secure integrated system for creating personalized learning environments.
Moodle platform features
The Moodle platform has become the most popular LMS system or software worldwide, so there must be something special about it, right?
These are some of its main features:
Always up to date: Thanks to the community that exists around Moodle, new versions are frequently released, incorporating improvements and new features to meet the needs of teachers and students.
Flexible and customizable: There are a lot of predefined templates to give your Moodle platform the look and feel you want. In addition, if you have technical knowledge, you can also develop your own themes.
Intuitive and easy-to-use interface: If you are still getting started with Moodle, dont worry. It has a very intuitive control panel that will make managing your courses much easier.
Customized board: In the Moodle platform you can organize your courses by weeks, topics, type of content, etc.
Statistics: Access to student activity reports, module performance and course participation history.
Calendar: Moodle includes an all-in-one application that allows you to include the academic calendar, dates for assignments, exams, meetings or even add personal notes.
Benefits of the Moodle platform
The Moodle platform was created with the aim of providing a secure space for teachers and students to interact and create a learning community.
To this end, Moodle users have access to a virtual classroom where they enter with a name and password and have access at any time and from anywhere to the contents or to submit assignments or questionnaires.
There are many advantages of working with a platform like Moodle, from the freedom to use this software and modify it according to the needs of your students or teachers, to the cost savings of using open source software and not having to pay an annual license fee to maintain your project.
Another advantage is that Moodle is a fully scalable platform, that is, it adapts to all kinds of projects, from a small English academy to a university virtual classroom. In fact, did you know that most universities use Moodle to develop their virtual campuses?
