tures - Grades The Grades feature in Moodle provides a quick view of all Forum, Assignment, Journal, Quiz, Lesson and Workshop grades. The grading scale applied to a learner’s submission is shown, along with a cumulative total, on a single page. Grades can be downloaded in Excel or plain text for inclusion into an existing electronic gradebook
Learner Management Features - Grades Viewing Assignment and Journal submissions, and adding Grades and comments, are done from a single page that displays all enrolled students. Managing student submissions are done from one central screen. This cuts down on the time it takes to assess many students work.
Learner Management Features - Logs Monitor when and what course resources the learner has accessed. Moodle's Logs provide detailed learner activity. Logs pin-point where a student is within coursework. Easily locate specific course, student, date and module activity access.
Learner Management Features - Files Centrally locate all course resources within the Files area of Moodle so they are available when creating new activities. Files storage area resembles your computer, making it easy to add, move, zip and delete resources.
Learner Management Features - Help An extensive Moodle Help file is a button click away. Courses include a Teacher only forum, where colleagues can collaborate on tasks and share ideas. Moodle's built in Teacher Manual provides step-by-step instructions on all aspects of course and learner management
Learner Experience - Login Learners find it easy to navigate a Moodle course homepage in their browser; intuitive “breadcrumb” links are always present. Login occurs on a familiar screen. Initial account set up may be handled by the learner or administrator. Moodle's has its own authentication system, but will integrate with an external database, POP3, IMAP, LDAP or NNTP, allowing domain wide login. Navigation bar provides breadcrumb links from course homepage to activities
Learner Experience – Enrollment Keys Instructors can require an “enrollment key” to allow participation in a class. Enrollment keys are provided to learners separately from the log in process. Courses requiring an enrollment key are indicated in “Course categories” description. Course category displays descriptions of each course. Symbols on description page indicate when a course requires an enrollment key and allows Guest entry. Students see a list of courses they are enrolled in (My courses) on site homepage after login.
Learner Experience – 24/7/365 Anywhere! Learners can login any time, anywhere to interact with coursework, and can specify the Time Zone and Language they wish to use. Moodle has interface support for 70 languages.
Who is Using Moodle in K to 12? Over 5614 organizations in 123 countries had registered Moodle sites by August 2005 ( http://moodle.org/sites ). This number is growing by about 10% each month as educators and trainers learn the value of implementing open source Moodle. There are 106 registered Moodle sites that are larger than 5000 users. The site with the most users is moodle.org with 40 courses and 104510 users. The site with the most courses is Online Campus with 8242 courses and 53447 users. ( http://moodle.org/stats )