How do others describe Moodle?

Its always informative to hear someone extol the virtues of Moodle.

The UMass Amherst college is one of them.

When they explained Moodle, they did so in four points

1. Open source and easy place for teachers to post course content
2. Rich with traditional activities, like, forums, quizzes, assignments and gradebook
3. Strong with student centered collaborative activities, like Wikis, Databases and Glossaries
4. Integrates well with other software.

There content is well stated, including a number of well written moodle support articles.  I have been supporting Moodle in my corner of the world for years and never came across an article about using Import, rather than restore, to create a new course.  Which reminds me that we never stop learning about things, even things we use on a regular basis.

Umass has different needs than we do, which is fine, Moodle is very diverse feature rich software, they are a big college where many of their courses are offered in a blended or exclusively on-line format.  Great.  That means they have lots and lots of courses and students going through the courses.

The topic that brought me into their site was groups.  They have nice support articles around groups, grouping and how to use them.  I have found the groups and grouping feature to be a little difficult to understand, implement and administer.  This article helped me to a richer understanding of the uses of this feature.

There was even a nice support article about their upgrade to moodle 3.0.  I bookmarked their page - I should look for an feed and subscribe to it.  Practice what I preach - which is find smart people who are invested in something and learn from them!