Top 10 interesting facts of Moodle Development.

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS OF MOODLE DEVELOPMENT

1. MOODLE’S FOUNDER 

Moodle is the brainchild of founder Martin Dougiamas, who also shares his birthday with Moodle on 20th of August.

2. AGE ďƒ’

Moodle was founded in August 2002 and now it is about 17 years old. It is the world’s largest open-source learning platform.

4. COUNTRIES BY REGISTRATION 

The top 10 countries by number of registered Moodle sites are the USA, UK, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, India, Germany, Colombia and Australia.

3. ABBREVIATION 

There are six letters in Moodle, which stands for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment.

4. COUNTRIES BY REGISTRATION 

The top 10 countries by number of registered Moodle sites are the USA, UK, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, India, Germany, Colombia and Australia.

5. MOODLE PARTNER SERVICE ďƒ’

The key areas in which Moodle Partners provide services are analytics, consulting, courseware, developing, hosting, integration etc.

6. ALL CONTINENTS ďƒ’

There are registered Moodle sites on all 7 continents on Earth, including Antarctica!

7. MOODLE COMMUNITY ďƒ’

Millions of developers, partners, administrators and users around the world form the Moodle community.

8. USAGE ďƒ’

Moodle can be used for peer assessment, discussion and debate, sharing files and media, collaboration and even gamification.

9. LANGUAGE OPTIONS ďƒ’

Moodle is available on all popular languages to teach students in their own language. It has been translated into 126 languages for the latest version.

10. MYTHS ďƒ’

There are several myths about Moodle and some of them are need for technical expertise to use it, requirement to be a PHP programmer, the school should have a sophisticated server etc.