Moodle
Overview
- Overview
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Moodle LMS is an open-source learning management system for creating courses, delivering resources and activities, collecting assignments, running quizzes, grading work, discussion, communication, and tracking completion. Districts may self-host it, use a Moodle Certified Service Provider, or obtain it through another hosting arrangement.
The instructional record depends on course organization, enrollment, and grading choices. Local hosting or provider arrangements also determine who maintains availability, updates, backups, and the connections to district systems. A classroom submission and an official academic entry can represent different stages of review. Their relationship depends on local grading practices and the connections actually configured.
At district scale, course setup, grading practices, term transitions, and account changes become shared responsibilities. Teaching, SIS, and technology teams coordinate how information moves between the classroom environment and official student records. The key questions are which system owns the final grade, how enrollment changes reach classes, and how learning records remain available after a course ends.
Features
- Features
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Open course platform
- Provides courses, activities, resources, assignments, quizzes, forums, gradebook, competencies, and completion tracking.
- Supports blended, online, and staff learning use cases.
Configuration and extensions
- Uses themes, plugins, roles, permissions, languages, and course formats to adapt the environment.
- Allows districts to control features and workflows.
Hosting choices
- Can be self-hosted or operated through MoodleCloud or a certified service provider.
- Local responsibility varies significantly by deployment.
Standards and connections
- Supports web services, plugins, LTI, authentication, enrollment, and external-system integration.
- Required SIS, SSO, rostering, and support arrangements should be documented locally.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Moodle Privacy Policy:
https://moodle.org/admin/tool/policy/view.php?policyid=1
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Company News
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Interoperability
Sign-on, rostering, and file exchange methods
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