Using Moodle in Your School

Moodle is a free online learning management system used by thousands of teacher worldwide. Try it out for yourself by installing in your notebook, desktop or in your school web server.

Moodle can be used in schools for:

• Sharing Ideas and Resources
• Collaboration between teachers
• Collaboration between students
• Supporting learning
• Create a Learning Community
• Talk about personal experiences using blogs and wikis
• Online discussion using forums and chats
• RSS feeds

Some ideas for using Moodle:

• Simple public web site including news, calendar and resources. Could even have public classroom pages maintained by staff/student.
• Simple intranet with “course sites” allowing resource sharing between groups of teachers etc
• Use of the quiz tool multi-choice, short answer etc
• Older students creating content for teachers & younger students
• A simple publishing tool for audio files (podcasting), using forum or RSS feeds.
• Use wiki’s to enable students to create simple web pages or a group sites/projects.
• Link lists
• Use forums to give students a sense of audience in their writing.
• Glossary as a simple image gallery.
• Parental access to work.
• Glossaries where children can deliver/share book reviews.
• Use a Wiki as a group preparation/recording tool for a day trip.
• Online journals (blogs) for pupils to record achievements or concerns, for themselves and their teachers.
• Scheduled chat sessions for discussion with students from other schools.

This is only a very small list of what you can do with Moodle. Find out for yourself by exploring Moodle today.