Moodle Features

Manage Courses, Course Activities, Grades and Users!

Features Summary

Manage Courses

Create or edit courses, organize them into categories and sub-categories.

Manage Appearance

Use themes and blocks to manage your Moodle's appearance

Resource types

Use text, image, audio and video in your courses

Manage Course Activities

Include activities in your courses - Assignments, Quizzes, Surveys, Discussion Forums etc.

Manage Users & Permissions

Use authentication plugins, or create manual accounts. Use Roles to control access.

Manage Grades

Grade students using numbers, letters or scales.

Help & Documentation

Use easy to access on-line help directly from the system

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Features Detail

Manage Courses

With Moodle you can create various types of courses - by topic, by week, scorm or social - and organize them into categories and sub-categories.

You can make configurations to control course structure, enrollment, enrollment expiry notifications, groups, availability, language and roles.

Manage Appearance

Use themes and blocks to manage your Moodle's appearance.

You can set different themes for your site, for individual courses or categories. Users can choose their own themes. There are several ready made themes available to choose from.

Administrators can also control the layout by turning on and setting the position of blocks like News, Search, Calendar, Results, Tags and Events.

Resource types

Moodle allows you to create your course content using any media type. You can use plain text file, or word or powerpoint or pdf files. You can upload audio or video content as well.

Manage Course Activities

Moodle allows a teacher to include activities like Assignments, Quizzes, Surveys, Discussion Forums, Wikis, Workshops, Online Chats into their courses. A Moodle administrator can control which activities can be included in the courses. See this moodle course for more information on activities.

Manage Users & Permissions

Moodle can integrate with several types of authentication backends including LDAP, IMAP, POP3 or RADIUS servers. Or you could setup accounts in Moodle's own database.

The system also allows Email based self-registration.

In addition to the standard roles available with Moodle - Teacher, Student, Administrator you can define your own roles. For each role you can define permissions at a granular level.

Manage Grades

Moodle has a flexible grading system. Teachers can use numbers, letters or scales to grade sections or activities within a course. The grades can then be aggregated to a course level grade.

The grades can be exported to a text, xml for spreadsheet file. Reports are available at Grader, Overview or User level.

A large number of settings and preferences available so teachers can tailor the system to their needs.

Help & Documentation

Moodle has excellent context sensitive help. Simply click on the Question Mark icon next to the element that you want to learn more about.

Context sensitive help is available on all pages and for all elements within a page.