On-Demand Learning

With students’ increasingly busy schedules, having access to course information on demand is proving to be an essential tool for success. With Moodle, students can access information and resources anytime, anywhere. Instructors can create resources such as wikis, podcasts and blogs to provide a social learning environment.

Advantages of Using Moodle for On-Demand Learning:

  • Available 24/7
  • Enables social learning
  • Provides a permanent record of interactions
  • Allows instructors to create a complete yearly plan

Features of Moodle that are Useful for On-Demand Learning:

  • Multiple-course layout
  • E-mail
  • Blogs
  • Wikis

Collaborative Learning

With the typical course meeting for only three or four hours each week, time is a precious commodity. It is often difficult to cover all of the lecture material and establish a meaningful dialog in one class session.

With the social learning functions of Moodle, instructors can create a forum where class discussions can continue beyond the lecture hall. Moodle enables professors to track student participation and create a grading structure based on each individual’s involvement.

Advantages of Using Moodle for Collaborative Learning:

  • Permanent record of interactions
  • Easy tracking of discussions
  • E-mail updates for discussions

Features of Moodle that are Useful for Collaborative Learning:

  • Forums
  • Chat
  • Email
  • Blogs
  • Wikis

Global Reach

Why should learning be confined to your campus grounds? Physical proximity is no longer a barrier to teaching and learning with Moodle. With Moodle, higher education institutions can reach students across the globe. What’s more, developing a university that crosses geographical boundaries will increase cultural diversity and understanding. No other LMS provides the same global reach as Moodle.

Advantages of Moodle's Global Reach:

  • 78 languages supported
  • Used in 199 countries
  • More than 20 million users worldwide

Features of Moodle's Global Reach:

  • Multiple language support
  • Forums
  • RSS feeds
  • Wikis

Flexible Platform

Open-source solutions in higher education are the best way to make software meet your precise needs. Moodlerooms’ development staff has expert capabilities to provide customization services for institutions of any size. Moodle integrates with many third-party software programs and back-end systems so they work with tools that are already in place.

Advantages of Moodle's Flexible Platform:

  • Integration with student information systems (SIS)
  • Ability to create branded installations
  • Convert current LMS courses

Features of Moodle's Flexible Platform:

  • HTML editor
  • Multiple roles
  • Web collaboration integrations
  • Custom development available

Expertise of Moodlerooms

Moodlerooms has a professionally trained staff that works to host, maintain and support Moodle and Moodle alone. By working solely on Moodle, Moodlerooms has developed an optimized Moodle-hosting platform and the knowledge needed to maintain and support all installations. By hosting with Moodlerooms, institutions can free up their IT staff to work on other important internal IT activities.

Advantages of Outsourcing Moodle Operations to Moodlerooms:

  • Fully maintained installation
  • Load-balanced infrastructure
  • Fail-safe data backup
  • Moodle expertise to resolve issues

Moodle for Higher Education

Moodle is an open-source learning management system (LMS) that puts control and flexibility back into the hands of the organization. Moodlerooms' professional programming staff is experienced in customizing Moodle to meet the needs of institutions of all sizes.