Moodle Learning Management System

Moodle is a free, open-source learning management system (LMS) written in PHP, designed to provide educators, administrators, and learners with a single robust, secure, and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. Created by Martin Dougiamas in 2002 in Perth, Australia, it has grown into the world's most widely used LMS with over 300,000 registered installations in 200+ countries, serving over 400 million learners. Key features include: course management (creating and organizing courses with categories, sections, topics, weekly formats, and flexible activity and resource placement), activities and resources (over 20 activity types including assignments, quizzes, workshops, forums, glossaries, databases, lessons, SCORM, H5P, surveys, choices, and wikis), gradebook (flexible grading with natural weighting, custom scales, letter grades, rubrics, marking guides, and category aggregation), quiz engine (powerful assessment tool with 15+ question types including multiple choice, true/false, short answer, essay, numerical, calculated, drag and drop, and Cloze, with random selection, timing, and attempts management), assignment submission (file uploads, text submissions, PDF annotation, group submissions, and blind marking with plagiarism detection integration), competency frameworks (mapping activities to competencies, learning plans, and evidence tracking), badges and certifications (Open Badges standard for skill and achievement recognition), enrollment methods (manual, self-enrollment, cohort, PayPal, Stripe, LDAP, and external database), authentication (email, LDAP, OAuth2, SAML2, CAS, and MNet), multilingual support (full interface and content translation in 200+ languages), mobile app (offline access, push notifications, and full course interaction), analytics and reporting (engagement analytics, learning analytics, activity reports, course completion tracking), and plugin architecture (over 2,000 community plugins).