UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog

Moodle is a Learning Management System which provides a great deal of flexibility in delivering your message to (internal & external) clients.

Moodle offers a variety of formats, including:

• The traditional "lesson" approach, where you can organize your information by topic


• Social formats, which allow for interaction among groups using features such as blogs, wikis, emails, and chats. You can define the groups around areas of interest, locations, type of participant (staff, volunteers, public), etc.


• Weekly formats for time-sensitive information or a sequential course.

Moodle's features include posting a variety of file types, links, wikis, discussion boards, email, and chats; glossaries which link to relevant items within the "course;" databases (where users can add and rate items); quizzes; surveys; grading features; creating your own web pages; and more.

Moodle allows you to control access to your offerings. Courses can be passworded, you can enroll specific participants, or make them open to the public. As a result, you it can be used to meet internal training needs, or available as a marketing tool for the public. You can also track course usage.

Here's a short demo, which uses LEGOs to demonstrate how you can "build" a course with desired features, using Moodle.

To view an example of UNHCE usage of Moodle, you can review a 4-H example (a work in progress.) Enter 4h_aero (case sensitive) when prompted for the login key.)

For further info on Moodle and assistance delivering your message using this application, UNHCE staff can contact Barbara Wright at: barbara.wright@unh.edu