Technology has advanced rapidly and has entered all spheres of our life and has also brought changes to the field of educations. Many online learning opportunities have emerged which have revolutionized the ways and methods of education. One example of such a system is the Moodle, which is an online course management system which has been used by thousands of educators worldwide to design and develop new online learning courses. Moodle is a modular object oriented dynamic learning development platform which can be used to develop any type of learning oriented sites or software. Its modular structure and a dynamic and customizable approach is the reason why it has been used to develop over 70,000 sites and has more than 60 million users worldwide. Moreover, the other interesting feature of moodle is that it is continually evolving, and moodle development is an ever ongoing process. Moodle development is carried out by the large number of members in the Moodle community, and the partne companies which are spread across the world.
Moodle development is further aided by the fact that moodle is very flexible from a moodle developers point of view. It has many core features that aid in developing new e – learning software such as grading, online charts, assignment compilation, quick messaging, file downloads etc. Moreover, it allows programmers to install additional plugins for extra functionality such as new graphic based themes, data sector types, using additional authorization methods, content sort outs and many more. These features make it very user friendly for all moodle developers. Moreover one can also develop new modules for Moodle using PHP web programming language. This open source nature of Moodle makes the process of moodle customization a very smooth one as compared to other platforms. The other feature of moodle customization is that it can be applied to moodle themes as well and one can generate any number of themes. These features allow moodle development to be completed very fast and new versions of moodle come out in a time span as short as six months.
Moodle also has a constant 24/7 moodle support system which has a complete technical guide which contains information on all aspects and topics related to moodle known as Moodle Docs. Moreover, the Moodle community is online 24 hours so one can discuss any topics using discussion forums which allow moodle developers or users to share inputs and problems any hour on the day so that one does not need to worry if any technical support issue arises.
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