Moodle for K-12

Moodlerooms understands the e-learning challenges facing IT professionals, teachers and administrators in today’s digital age. The need for access to information and communication for students, parents and teachers is rapidly increasing. Moodlerooms believes in educators and supports the vital role they play by providing affordable and flexible services for the user-friendly Moodle learning management system (LMS).

Online Classroom

The advent of the online classroom has ushered in a powerful and momentous change in education. Students and parents are looking to access classroom resources online at their convenience and in a manner that allows for social interaction. Moodlerooms unlocks the power of e-learning for K-12 schools and districts through Moodle.

Moodle was founded upon the principle that education is best conducted through interactions between peers and teachers. Thanks to Moodle's user-friendly interface, a Moodle online classroom is more than a document hanger -- it provides a place for teachers to explore and implement different teaching methods, allowing them to reach students who learn in different ways.

Moodle allows educators to enable valuable social interaction that helps their students meet learning objectives. The flexibility of Moodle also allows teachers to assess social interaction as an essential part of the learning process.

Advantages of a Moodle Online Classroom:

  • Available on-demand
  • Enables social learning
  • Provides a permanent record of interactions
  • Allows teachers to create a complete yearly plan

Features of a Moodle Online Classroom:

  • Forums
  • Chat
  • Blogs
  • SCORM Compliant

Professional Development

The need to train and retain highly qualified educators and staff is a challenge that all school districts face. Moodlerooms can provide you with an on-demand training tool that fosters an environment of IT-to-administrator, administrator-to-teacher and teacher-to-teacher collaboration.

With proper planning and strategy, Moodle can be rolled out in a phased application to spread from top administrators all the way to the students of the district. Moodlerooms' trained staff can provide the services to get your school up and running, as well as assist with the planning and implementation of a successful professional development program. All Moodlerooms training programs are ISTE certified and can qualify for CEU credits.

Advantages of Using Moodle for Professional Development:

  • Easy transition into online learning
  • School-wide communication
  • Development can be done on demand
  • CEUs accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)

Features of Using Moodle for Professional Development:

  • Administrator roles
  • Document uploads
  • Embeddable learning objects
  • Wikis

Parent Portal

Parents are taking a more active role in the education of their children. Creating a parent portal with Moodle can provide parents with the on-demand access they desire and free teachers and administrators from “endless email chains.”

Using Moodle as a parent portal enables communication between parents and teachers in an accountable and open manner. Parents also have the ability to connect with one another and facilitate a parent support network. At the same time, teachers can provide secure access for parents to view and monitor their child's grades and performance.

Advantages of a Moodle Parent Portal:

  • Secure and private
  • Communication between teachers and parents
  • Access to coursework and grades
  • Opportunity to develop a parent community

Features of a Moodle Parent Portal:

  • Forums
  • Quizzes
  • Chat
  • Communication software

Distance Learning

Online learning is helping teachers and students overcome distance barriers in education. The on-demand nature of online learning creates a level of accessibility that was never possible before, and as communication technologies evolve, so does Moodle. A number of third-party software companies have designed applications that work in Moodle and allow users to transform any room into a classroom.

Advantages of Using Moodle for Distance Learning:

  • Wimba
  • DimDim
  • Elluminate
  • iTunes University

Features of Using Moodle for Distance Learning:

  • Forums
  • Quizzes
  • Chat
  • Communication software