Moodle is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.

I can set up your Moodle site for you, giving access to pupils, parents and staff from your school or college website. If required I can set up the content that you require and/or provide staff training so staff know how to add content themselves. Please contact me if you want to talk to me about this service.

To see Moodle's demo site, click here.

Moodle is an Internet tool that allows the classroom to extend onto the web. It is not a program to replace face-to-face teaching, but to support it with a range of flexible online tools, as well as providing a place to upload resources for courses. Moodle course site designers have many options available to them when setting up the Moodle environment for a course. They may choose to provide tools so you may interact with the students in your course, upload assignments, access quizzes and learning resources and much more.

Why use Moodle?

This is a good question "Why use Moodle at all?" Classes have been running for thousands of years without the use of computers and the Web. While traditional face-to-face lectures, lessons and tutorials can still be highly effective, supporting this teaching with a range of online tools opens up new possibilities for learning. Moodle's 'tool set' includes discussion forums, wikis, quizzes, and tools to upload and share resources. Whilst these tools exist elsewhere as separate programs, Moodle conveniently packages them into an single, integrated, user-friendly environment. Currently there is a lot of research into how to effectively combine online learning and face-to-face lectures/lending in what is called "blended learning".

Who uses Moodle?

The Moodle community is growing fast across the world with the number of known Moodle sites growing exponentially. In the UK Moodle is used at all levels, including universities, adult education centres, colleges, secondary schools, primary schools, private individuals and companies. Most recently the Open University, which is the UK's only university dedicated to distance learning, has started a new programme which will see the largest use of Moodle in the world.

Moodle gives schools the best tools to manage and promote online learning. As it’s web based, staff and students alike have 24 hour access to digital resources and multimedia, allowing learning to reach beyond the classroom. Teachers can take the best aspects of their classroom practice and transfer that into a home teaching and learning environment.

The official Moodle website can be found here.