Moodle

The book I read to research this post was Moodle for Dummies by Radana Dvorak which is an excellent book I bought from kindle. Moodle is an open source piece of software which can be either hosted on moodles servers for free or hosted on a 3rd party server, it’s unlikely you would host it on your own server although that is possible. It’s primarily for teachers & trainers so that they can deliver elearning to their students. You can incorporate paypal & charge for courses & there are lots of plug ins like youtube. When you set up a moodle site you can allow students to do blogs & another feature is it can be set up for them to talk to you & each other. You might be thinking it is a lot of extra work especially if you are a teacher but you can mark work online & you can set online tests for your students which is a time saver if you can type. The man who invented moodle did a degree in computer science & education so he was qualified to do it. The code to the program is open source which means anyone can change it to suit there needs.