Why MOODLE LMS is the best ..

Why MOODLE is the best LMS in the world ? 

(the text was compiled by Google AI, the blog owner, except for very minor tweaking, helped by putting the points in logical order)

Moodle is the most popular Learning Management System (LMS) in the world. Moodle has been adopted by universities, schools, and organizations from all corners of the planet. At the core of Moodle is a simple philosophy – to provide educators with the best tools for delivering online education.

Moodle is the world's most widely used LMS system. It's an open-source framework used for all kinds of eLearning, including blended learning, distance education and workplace training.

Moodle based LMS enjoys popularity with all types and sizes of organizations, mainly because it is configurable, highly-flexible and feature-rich. The fact that it is open source implies that it is open to scrutiny, and developers from all over the world can access and modify the codes and make it more secure. One of the many benefits of using a Moodle site is that it can be accessed from anywhere via PC, tablet or other mobile devices via a web-browser or through a free mobile app.

With automatic updates to the latest Moodle release, MoodleCloud hosting seamlessly gives educators the choice to adopt the open source learning platform for their teaching and training objectives without the need to install, maintain and upgrade software and servers themselves. There is no need of a MOODLE server. 

 For first time users, MoodleCloud is the often trusted solution for hosting. One of the reasons for this is the fact that MoodleCloud is Moodle's very own hosting solution. While Moodle™ is completely free of cost and available to download for any kind of website, Moodle™Cloud is a freemium solution. With MoodleCloud free plan, you get to create unlimited courses for up to 50 users and 250 MB of storage. 

Of all MOODLE applications globally, higher education uses 15% of all MOODLE installation, the rest 85% of global installations covering online education, IT cos., hospitals, government etc.. (click here for a detailed article on MOODLE users globally)

 The most trusted learning management system for higher education. With Moodle LMS, you can create a flexible and accessible online learning environment helping you save time and better support your students throughout their academic journey. Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other online learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors. Moodle is used to create custom websites with online courses and allows for community-sourced plugins. That explains why MOODLE uses in higher education is just 15% of all MOODLE installations world wide. 

Blackboard prioritizes providing better assessment tools for teachers, while Moodle focuses more on learners' engagement tools. 

Top universities of the world like Oxford and Cambridge use a combination of LMS including MOODLE, while Harvard uses CANVAS LMS, but has MOODLE integration possible. The Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) catalog can be integrated into the Moodle LMS platform, which allows for simple tool integration and unlimited access to HBP course materials for students, instructors, and course administrators.

The main difference between Canvas and Moodle can be observed in content creation. Moodle offers content authoring tools while canvas on the other hand fails to do so. Moodle is free and allows the user to make changes to fit their learning.

 Moodle has a very robust logging system that tracks every time a user visits a page or clicks a link. It records when files are uploaded, when quizzes are taken, when students log in, and even when students view an item.

The Moodle Proctoring tool is for MCQ (Quiz) assessments only and captures your picture via webcam to identify who is attempting the MCQ (Quiz) assessment. It will capture your picture and screenshot automatically every 30 seconds and store it as a PNG image.

Moodle is ahead of the curve when it comes to detecting and preventing cheating. One way that Moodle can help a teacher prevent cheating is by providing additional statistics about each student's performance, such as how long they spent on each question. 

Moodle is open source or free software (GPL). It is written in PHP. It will run on most common web servers, on common platforms. It requires a database, and will work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle. 

 

Moodle software has the power to streamline training processes for the best learning experiences and proves itself invaluable when it comes to structuring and sharing course materials with learners, and also in monitoring and assessing progress. Moodle Partners give financial support, contribute code, coordinate major projects and grow Moodle's userbase in exchange for being part of an exclusive group of official partners allowed to hock Moodle related products and services.

 

Moodle does not require programming skills 

Moodle learning analytics supports two types of models.

• Machine-learning based models, including predictive models, make use of AI models trained using site history to detect or predict hidden aspects of the learning process.
• "Static" models use a simpler, rule-based system of detecting circumstances on the Moodle site and notifying selected users.

Artificial intelligence is one radical approach that allows the personalized experience of many teachers and tutors. Artificial intelligence helps to discover what a student does and doesn't know and creates a customized curriculum for each learner, given the gaps in knowledge. "An AI-based eLearning platform is a machine/system that possesses the ability to perform different tasks requiring human intelligence. It has the ability to offer solutions to human-related problems, like speech recognition, translations, decision making, and much more."

Let me stress it again .. MOODLE is a FREE and OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FOSS) .. one can scale it to include any number of courses, to any number of students and for any amount of time. Unlike proprietary offerings like Blackboard, Moodle developers are working for societal good, really trying to push the frontiers of learning and knowledge around the world so that no one is denied an opportunity to study .. 

The final benefit of using an LMS that is driven by one of the largest open source teams in the world is that there are an endless amount of learning resources. Within Moodle’s Community Forums, you have the ability to connect with other Moodle users and find answers to your questions. With 144 million forum posts and 72 million Moodle learning resources, there is seldom a Moodle question left unanswered!

With over 500 Moodle plugins developed by the global community,(AI is just one of them) learners, managers, and administrators have the opportunity to flourish in an environment that makes learning collaborative, engaging, and fun. 

Alliance University Bangalore India has been using MOODLE for the past ten years and has courses in blended learning mode across the different schools of the University. Click here to have a look.

George Easaw