What is Moodle?

[maverick23789]

Did any of you check out book from Packt?

Anybody who has read this book?

[lekkerfiss3]

As an instructor I prefer Black Board. I'm no IT person but at least BB was easy to understand and work with. Moodle appears fragmented with all of its little signs, symbols and directions.

[MrTapechild123]

yaa there is only one problem with Moodle for the past two times i have used it the site has crashed both times

[grapemanca]

Learn how to build in Dreamweaver, create an HTML template, and upload directly to a webserver. Once you do, you'll realize why online developers think of Moodle as the Trabant of web development programs.

[cormtuber]

one, maximum two bullet points per slide on a video presentation, PLEASE! why do so many people in the world of teaching / instruction / instructional design lack good teaching & communication skills? SHEESH!

[Verholm]

If this anemic and blurred video is representative of Moodle, then the authors of Moodle are guilty of mediocrity. If Moodle is an open source medium, then why has there been no progress towards making it look contemporary and eye-catching like Facebook?

[MadWookiee11]

Moodle is ridiculous to use if your teacher doesn't even get it. It also is a pain to check homework on if the teacher puts the answers in wrong.

[misssai]

i hate it that is my last name

[hazarkus]

Moodle is monotonous, monochrome, dull and lifeless. But it is free. Good for schools and teachers; bad for students! Am I being too harsh?

[sudsnz]

Only if the area (I'm avoiding the term course) you have created is monotonous, monochrome, dull and lifeless. Moodle is what you make of it. It is a blank canvas and can initially be a bit overwhelming because of that. Could it be easier to use? Yes. Is it difficult to use? Defintely not.

It easily the best LMS around.

[anotherjoe50]

This hideous video (ugly mix of fuzzy photos, hideous clip art, bullet-riddled powerpoint-type slides) is typical of what "educators" (yeah,right) subject their students to with Moodle. The Moodle site itself is dull and lifeless and confusing. Moodle aficionados have a condescending attitude toward newbies "Oh, you'll catch on... tee-hee." No. Why don't they catch-on that sites & applications should be attractive, simple, intuitive.

[ssgfilmsnarmour]

@hazarkus its not bad for students...i have this in my school and i get to message people all day iz fun mayan

[ap8193]

I hate moodle

[geopablomac]

An online course in any CMS is only as good as the course designer builds it.

[joethibault]

What doesn't work: Moodle is cumbersome, lots of clicking to get things the way you want, lots of page views when creating new resources and such (it could be much easier to create and revise).

What is great is the wealth of tools. There are multiple ways to do everything.

Overall, I find that for beginners it's too complicated and for advanced users it's overly time consuming.

But, it's the best open source LMS available on the cheap...

[geopablomac]

If all you are doing is plopping a lame PowerPoint presentation into it (like your video), then any old CMS will do. Moodle has a well-earned reputation as a low-threshold, learner-centric CMS.

[whitireia]

@joethibault in my opinion Moodle is way better than Blackboard.

[SteveOnCourt]

I just stumbled on Moodle and it looks interesting.

djPalikA (or anyone else) - what doesn't work about Moodle? What other sites do what Moodle is trying to do? Real questions - thanks for your response.

[artlader]

Thanks to you, Joe, for this introduction to to a great LMS: Moodle.

[djPalikA]

moodle is'n not cool

we use it and its (..)

[vrsansebastian]

Why? I love it. I have a lot to learn yet, but it is a nice, really nice, tool.

[djPalikA]

yes it is very handy, (imnot englsch)

but everything around, like little things,

password forgotten.

Its OK, but there is a lot of doing better