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Image:Moodle 1.3 sample course screengrab.png Moodle course screenshot with Firefox
Developer	Martin Dougiamas
Latest release	1.8.3 / 11 October 2007
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Course Management System
License	GPL
Website	moodle.org

Moodle is a free software e-learning platform (also known as a Course Management System (CMS), or Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)). It has a significant user base with 25,281 registered sites with 10,405,167 users in 1,023,914 courses (as of May 13, 2007) [1].

Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design means that people can develop additional functionality. Development is undertaken by a globally diffused network of commercial and non-commercial users, spearheaded by the Moodle company based in Perth, Western Australia.

Moodle features

Moodle has many features expected from an e-learning platform including:

• Forums
• Content managing (resources)
• Quizzes with different kinds of questions
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Database activities
• Surveys
• Chat
• Glossaries
• Peer assessment
• Multi-language support (over 60 languages are supported for the interface [2])