 Meet Maria. Maria is an educator at Orange Academy, teaching a variety of courses including media studies, economics and history. Because she uses Moodle, her learners can easily access these courses, check their progress and see what they need to do. Maria teaches her courses in English, but Moodle works in over 100 languages. She and her learners are able to quickly talk to each other in Moodle and stay in touch through the messaging and notification functionality. Maria gets her learners to share ideas in forums, engages them with media and uses quizzes to check their understanding. They can submit assignments on the go from their smartphones and Maria can comfortably grade them wherever she chooses. Moodle's tools help Maria inspire and support her learners. Moodle is used in every country in the world by educators just like Maria in K-12 classrooms and higher education institutions. Moodle is also widely used for training, professional development and inductions in many organisations and businesses of various sizes. There are hundreds of millions of Moodle users globally and this number keeps rising. What makes Moodle the world's open source learning platform is our commitment to open processes and development, build and support together with a huge and diverse global community of users. Our mission is to empower educators like Maria with powerful, flexible tools that will contribute to and are resulting in improvements to our world. Explore the various ways to get started with your own Moodle site at Moodle.com