1. Welcome to Moodle! Moodle is an open source web application used to create interactive online learning sites. ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy

2. “Who” is Moodle? Moodle that is the acronym for Modular Object- Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment it's an online Learning Management System (LMS). ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy

3. It runs on almost all platform, supporting a lot of useful function and customization, thanks to his modular structure. Why Moodle? It's free! ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy

4. It is used all over the world by teachers and educators and it's probably the best E-Learning tool in the net! Why Moodle? Also, it's available in 78 languages! ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy

5. Moodle was created by Martin Dougiamas, who wrote the entire code in PHP, as a research for his doctorate at Curtin University in Australia. Who is Moodle's Dad? In the beginning the “M” on Moodle acronym was the first letter of Dougiamas name, Martin. ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy

6. What teachers can do with Moodle... create online tests and examinations upload files and lessons create online courses divide students into classes open forums chat sessions ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy

7. What students can do with Moodle... follow the lessons take part into forums chat sessions upload their homework and test ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy

8. Features ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy Forum: you can discuss with all other registered user about many issues.

9. Features ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy Chat: you can talk about what you want in real time with classmate and professor.

10. Features ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy Calendar: if you're a professor, you can program lessons, tests and more. Students can consult this section as a reminder for future commitments.

11. Features ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy Lesson: Moodle provides teacher many ways to set up their own lessons and courses and to keep them under control.

12. Features ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy Wiki and Glossary: collaboration is the key word of moodle, which has several functions to work in group.

13. Features ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy Quizzes and Tests: there are many ways to evaluate the preparation of the students.. or to have fun with questions of any arguments!

14. Features ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy...and more! Moodle has got really many functions! And they are all easily manageable, thanks to their modular structure!

15. Let's Try! ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy And now, after all this chatting, it's time to work! Let's enter the world of Moodle, and try to answer to a simple quiz! We are going to learn how to do it step by step; ~ First of all we must be registered in Moodle. If we are, we should only login from the panel in the top of the page

16. Let's Try: Quiz ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy ~Then, check that the quiz is the one we want; select it trought the button “Attempt quiz now”! ~ Now we should select the quiz from the right page of our moodle website.

17. Quiz: Flags and Nations ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy ~ The first question! Can you tell me what's the right answer? Yeah, that's Germany's flag! So, we select it, and then we press the Submit button! Moodle confirms our answer.. we have collected 1 mark!

18. Quiz: Flags and Nations ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy ~ In the same way, we can complete the entire quiz! Alternatively, we can select all the answers, and then press the button “Submit all and finish” at the end of the page to confirm our choices all in one time. A dialog box will appear to make sure we have selected the desired answers; press ok, and go to the results!

19. Flags and Nations: Results ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy ~ Finally, we are arrived at the results page! Here we can take a look at our performance, with some statistical information; Time Information Score Information Feedback Comments ~ We can repeat the quiz (if this option is enabled), simply by pressing “Start again” button.

20. Thanks for Watching ITIS Corni – Modena, Italy So... this is Moodle! If I had to explain all the functions, features and customizations that moodle supports, i would have to keep this presentation going for hours but i think you're a bit tired now, so i'll stop right here, but i'm inviting you to use it as soon as you have the chance.. Bye!