| Product Name |
Moodle 1.9 |
| Communication Tools |
| Discussion Forum |
Students can enable or disable posts to be sent to their email. |
| Students can receive posts by email as daily digests of subject lines or whole posts. |
| Students can subscribe to forum RSS feeds. |
| A spell-checker is available for student and instructor responses. |
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| Reviewer Comments |
| There are many other features and configurations of forums than are listed here. |
| Discussion Management |
Instructors can allow students to create discussion groups. |
| Instructors can set up moderated discussions where all posts are screened. |
| Posts may be peer reviewed by other students. |
| Instructors can view statistical summaries of discussions displaying participation which can be used to generate grades. |
| Discussions can be shared across courses, departments, or any institutional unit. |
| File Exchange |
Students can submit assignments using drop boxes. |
| Internal Email |
Students can use the built-in email functionality to email individuals or groups. |
| Students can use a searchable address book. |
| Students can elect to forward their mail to an external address. |
| Online Journal/Notes |
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| Real-time Chat |
The chat tool supports a limited number of simultaneous rooms. |
| The chat tool supports unlimited simultaneous group discussions |
| Students can create new rooms. |
| Instructors may moderate chats and suspend students from the chat rooms. |
| The system creates archive logs for all chat rooms. |
| Whiteboard |
Reviewer Comments |
| It can supported by adding available 3rd party modules for Dim Dim, Elluminate or other products. |
| Productivity Tools |
| Bookmarks |
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| Calendar/Progress Review |
Instructors and students can post events in the online course calendar. |
| Instructors can post announcements to a course announcement page. |
| Students have a personal home page that lists all courses in which the student is enrolled, new email and all course and system-wide events from their personal calendar. |
| Students can view their grades on completed assignments, total points possible, course grade, and compare their grades against the class performance. |
| Students can subscribe to RSS feeds to be notified of changes to materials. |
| Searching Within Course |
Students can search all discussion threads. |
| Students can search chat or virtual classroom session recordings. |
| Work Offline/Synchronize |
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| Orientation/Help |
Students can access context sensitive help for any tool. |
| The system includes online tutorials for students that help students learn how to use the system. |
| Student Involvement Tools |
| Groupwork |
Instructors can assign students to groups. |
| The system can randomly create groups of a certain size or a set number of groups. |
| Students can self-select groups. |
| Each group can have its own discussion forum. |
| Each group can have its own chat or whiteboard. |
| Each group can be given group-specific assignments or activities. |
| Groups may be private or instructors can monitor groups. |
| Community Networking |
Students can create online clubs, interest, and study groups at the system level. |
| Students from different courses can interact in system-wide chat rooms or discussion forums. |
| Student Portfolios |
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| Administration Tools |
| Authentication |
Administrators can allow guest access to all courses. |
| The system can authenticate against an external LDAP server. |
| The system can authenticate using the Kerberos protocol. |
| The system supports Shibboleth. |
| The system supports the Central Authentication Service (CAS). |
| The system can authenticate against IMAP, POP3 or secure NNTP. |
| Administrators can set up fail-through authentication against a secondary source (e.g. the system's own database) in the event that the primary source (e.g. LDAP server ) fails. |
| The system can support multiple organizational units and virtual hosts within a server configuration. |
| Course Authorization |
The system supports restricting access based on roles and roles can also be customizedby the service provider. |
| Administrators can create an unlimited number of custom organizational units and roles with specific access privileges to course content and tools. |
| Administrators can distribute the permissions and roles across multiple institutions or departments hosted in the server environment. |
| Instructors or students may be assigned different roles in different courses. |
| Registration Integration |
Instructors can add students to their courses manually or allow students to self-register. |
| Administrators can batch add students to the system using a delimited text file. |
| Administrators can transfer student information bidirectionally between the system and an SIS using delimited text files. |
| Administrators can transfer student information bidirectionally between the system and an SIS using IMS Enterprise Specification v1.1 XML files via web services. |
| The software supports data interchange with student information systems through an event-driven API. |
| The software supports integration with SCT Banner, SCT Luminis, Datatel, PeopleSoft 8 or customized integration with other SIS or portal systems. |
| The software is compliant with the IMS Enterprise Specification for Student Data. |
| Hosted Services |
Hosting and support services from Solid State Learning |
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| Reviewer Comments |
| Moodle itself is FREE to use, but optional hosting and support services are provided by Solid State Learning |
| Course Delivery Tools |
| Test Types |
Multiple choice |
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| Multiple answer |
| Matching |
| Ordering |
| Jumbled sentence |
| Calculated |
| Fill-in the blank |
| Short answer |
| Survey questions |
| Essay |
| Questions can contain other media elements (images, videos, audio) |
| Custom question types can be defined. |
| Automated Testing Management |
The system can randomize the questions and answers. |
| Instructors can create self-assessments. |
| Instructors can set a time limit on a test. |
| Instructors can permit multiple attempts. |
| The students are allowed to review past attempts of a quiz. |
| The system supports a MathML editor for the inclusion of mathematical formulas in both questions and answers. |
| Instructors can specify whether correct results are shown as feedback |
| The system supports proctored tests. |
| The system supports Remote Quiz Protocol which allows questions to be rendered and scored externally to the system via standards-based web services. |
| Automated Testing Support |
Instructors can create personal test banks. |
| Instructors can create system wide test banks. |
| Questions can be imported from external test banks that support QTI. |
| The system provides test analysis data. |
| Online Marking Tools |
Instructors can choose to mark each student on all questions or to mark each question on all students. |
| Instructors can choose to evaluate student responses anonymously. |
| Instructors can enable students to rate and comment on submissions of other students. |
| Online Gradebook |
When an instructor adds an assignment to the course, the software automatically adds it to the gradebook. |
| Instructors can add grades for offline assignments. |
| Instructors can add details to the gradebook in custom columns. |
| Instructors can export the scores in the gradebook to an external spreadsheet. |
| Instructors can create a course grading scale that can employ either percents, letter grades, or pass/fail metrics. |
| Course Management |
Instructors can selectively release assignments, assessments, and announcements based on specific start and stop dates. |
| Instructors can personalize access to specific course materials based on group membership. |
| Student Tracking |
Instructors can track the frequency and duration of student access to individual course components. |
| Instructors can get reports showing the time and date and frequency students as an aggregated group accessed course content. |
| Instructors can get reports showing the number of times, time, date, frequency and IP address of each student who accessed course content, discussion forums, course assessments, and assignments. |
| Instructors can review the navigation record of each student. |
| Usage statistics can be aggregated across courses or across the institution. |
| Content Development Tools |
| Accessibility Compliance |
The product provider self-reports that the software complies with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act. |
| The product provider self-reports that the software complies with the WAI WCAG 1.0 Level A guidelines. |
| Content Sharing/Reuse |
Instructors can share content with other instructors and students through a central learning objects repository. |
| The repository can be system-wide or for individual organizational units. |
| Course Templates |
The software provides support for template-based course creation. |
| Course content may be uploaded through WebDAV. |
| The system allows administrators to use an existing course or a pre-defined template as a basis for a new course. |
| Customized Look and Feel |
The system provides default course look and feel templates. |
| Instructors can change the navigation icons and color schemes for a course. |
| Instructors can change the order and name of menu items for a course. |
| Institutions can create their own look and feel templates across the entire system, including their own institutional logos, headers, and footers. |
| The system can support multiple institutions, departments, schools or other organizational units on a single installation where each unit can apply its own look and feel templates as well as institutional images, headers and footers. |
| Instructional Design Tools |
Instructors can organize learning objects, course tools, and content into learning sequences that are reusable. |
| Instructors can create linear learning sequences organized hierarchically by course, lesson, and topic. |
| Instructors can reuse courses as templates for future lessons. |
| Instructional Standards Compliance |
AICC |
| IMS Content Packaging 1.1.3 |
| IMS Content Packaging 1.1.4 |
| IMS QTI 1.2.1 |
| IMS Enterprise 1.1 |
| SCORM 1.2 |
| SCORM 1.3 |
| Hardware/Software |
| Client Browser Required |
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| Database Requirements |
The system supports Oracle. |
| The system supports MS SQL Server. |
| The system supports MySQL. |
| The system supports PostGreSQL. |
| The application requires only one database and can coexist with tables from other applications. |
| UNIX Server |
A Unix version is available. |
| Windows Server |
A Windows version is available. |
| Company Details/Licensing |
| Company Profile |
Reviewer Comments |
| Moodle Pty Ltd is the company that organises funding and pays for core development, support plus quality assurance, allowing a broad community to help work on any aspect they want to. |
| Costs / Licensing |
Reviewer Comments |
| Moodle is free and distributed under the GPL license. |
| Open Source |
The software is distributed under one of the OSI-approved licenses. |
| Optional Extras |
Reviewer Comments |
| Moodle has a wide range of third-party modules that can extend functionality in different ways. |
