Never used it, but have heard of it. Do you use it? If you do how do you like it? Have any examples?
Thanks

techmate,

I am looking at it as a teaching tool for my ministry. My goal is to hold classes for groups and have a common areas that all students no matter what class they are in can participate.

I have been trying to figure out all the features of Moodle. I bought a book from Amazon to help me understand the basics. The book is very good, but it is hard to visualize an active site. On the Moodle web site, I found that going to the forum section where people can download other's already created courses for free is a good place see live demos of courses.

I am hoping to play in the future. Just checking to see if anyone has used Moodle.

Tim

The company I work for uses Moodle for our distance learning classes. We have been using it for a few years as our learning management system. It has been a good software for us. The community is a good resource for solving problems.

The biggest problem we had was the performance of the server when the server got busy. I started hosting Moodle on a dedicated server with my hosting company. The server that I got could only have a maximum of 1 GB of Ram. During our busy teaching times, we would have hundreds of students access the server and we would overload it. I ended up purchasing a new PowerEdge from Dell. Dual Xeon processors with 16 GB of RAM. Since the upgrade of hardware, we have had NO issue with performance.

I am happy to answer Moodle questions.

Another option to look at for online teaching is using DrupalEd. It offers a lot of the same features of Moodle, but has the power of Drupal. Here is a link to the DrupalED group: http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education

David Richards

Whereduck,

Can someone make a Moodle site look good? I know there are different themes, but when I look at Moodle sites they look like a school site and not hip.

Also, it is nice to know there is someone that can answer questions about Moodle here.

Tim

With enough CSS knowledge and time, I am sure Moodle can made to look "hip". However, I haven't seen many nice looking Moodle sites. I did find a theme designer how has done some nice themes for Moodle. They are for sale, but not at an unreasonable price. http://newschoollearning.com/

Most Moodle sites that I have seen incorporate the organization's branding with colors and logo, but they are pretty. Heck, my three servers are boring. The trade off is that the sites work and work well!

David Richards

My High School uses moodle in some of its technology classes. Lots of functionality there.
Paul Vaartjes
www.paulvaartjes.com
www.cursoryglance.wordpress.com

Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!! The theme site is very good!!!!!! Now I look forward to using Moodle.

Tim

Sejtraav, good to hear that Moodle can be used to really help people learn!!!!

Tim

I wonder how drupalEd compares to Moodle. See http://www.funnymonkey.com/drupaled-latest.

Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com

Hello, all,

Two other threads that could be useful when looking at Drupal and Moodle (which are, IMO, two different apps):

http://groups.drupal.org/node/12966

and

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/06/09/moodle...

Cheers,

Bill

Looks like people have strong opinions about what they like or dislike.

I'm familiar with Moodle. It is really robust but very difficult to skin properly. Since it is open source the back-end code (structure) is less than good when organization is concerned. Two pages calling the same file can parse totally different. So styling the Moodle site is full or obstacles.

I had to style one for the International College of Excellence who actually plugged-in (via SSO) to DigitalChalk's online chalkboard. It was nice integration for both. Moodle has its grand pluses, but for a designer, it can be a pain in the side.

Here is a link to DigitalChalk and Moodle in order to learn more: http://www.digitalchalk.com/misc/video-courses-on-...