Moodle :: About Moodle

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Moodle is Humboldt State University's Learning Management System (LMS). Moodle makes it easy for faculty to post course information, conduct class discussions, create assignments, take attendance, use Clicker technology, and hold and grade exams online.

Your courses will be set up automatically 6-8 weeks before the first day of class. You do not need to know how to build a web site to use Moodle; you simply add your content using the intuitive online forms, and files created in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other programs can be uploaded directly into the system.

Moodle  provides advanced learning content development modules, including

• Questionnaire [5]. Similar to a survey, Questionnaires enable instructors to create a wide range of questions to get student feedback, for example on a course or activities. The goals of the Questionnaire module are quite different from those of the Moodle Lesson or Quiz modules; it is used to gather data, not to test or assess the student.
• Glossary [6]. Glossaries can be created by the instructor alone or collaboratively, be course-specific or global, and can be optionally autolinked to course materials.
• Forums [7] The Forum module is where students and teachers can exchange ideas by posting comments. There are four basic forum types [7], and forum posts can be graded by the teacher or other students.A forum can contribute significantly to successful communication and community building in an online environment.
• Lesson [8]. The Lesson module enables faculty to automatically customize course materials for individual students.The choice the student makes after completing each Lesson page determines where they go next.

The Lesson module in particular is designed to support Dr. Richard Mayer's practice principle of multimedia enhanced learning, as described in the book eLearning and the Science of Instruction [9].