Moodle Web Hosting at Its Best!
While Moodle
hosting is offered by many web hosting companies, most are not familiar with
Moodle's high performance requirements and only very small Moodle websites
with little activity will run adequately on their servers. Moodle is a
very demanding application and as your classes and participation grows, your
web host must be able to offer you the services you need to grow with it.
At AlphaOne
Tech Web
Hosting, we offer several levels of shared server hosting, including
semi-dedicated servers and fully managed dedicated servers. Our
servers are all brand name, Dual or Quad Intel Xeon servers that are located
in one of the world class data centers in the United States.
Among Moodle
sites we host are several colleges and universities, high schools, churches
and community groups. We also are proud to host the
Global Literacy Organization and
the
Arizona State eLearning Initiative.
AlphaOne also
provides a listing of Moodle resource links, including links to the official
Moodle website, to assist you in developing your e-learning community.
What is Moodle?
Moodle is a course
management system - a free, Open Source software package
designed to help educators create on-line courses, schools &
communities
Moodle has a very large
installed base of well over 100,000 all over the world.
An Overview of Moodle
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- Moodle allows for collaboration,
interaction amongst students & teachers, testing, grading, etc.
- Moodle is excellent for classes that are
conducted via remote learning, to supplement class time or to
allow presentation of materials to students who have been absent
from class.
- Moodle allows unlimited courses, teachers &
students.
- Moodle is extremely secure and each course has
its own security and permission structure.
- Moodle comes with an easy to use WYSIWYG HTML
editor & most features can be implemented without extensive HTML
knowledge.
- Moodle provides a robust interactive environment for
learning - chat, forums, assignments, journals, teacher
feedback, surveys, testing & quizzes and MORE!
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Managing Your Moodle Site
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- Moodle's themes are highly
customizable so you can determine your colors, fonts & layout.
- Several activity modules that can be plugged in to your remote
learning community are available from the open source community.
- Support for over 35 different languages is currently available
and more are being developed all the time! Each of these
language packs can be customized & edited using
the built-in editor.
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Managing Your Moodle Users
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- Administrators can easily create courses & teachers and assign
users to online courses
- Moodle administrators have extensive control over privileges
for teachers
- An enrollment key can be set for courses
to restrict access to registered students.
- Students can be enrolled via sign up, or teachers or
administrators can enroll, (or unenroll), students manually.
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Managing Your Moodle Courses
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- Moodle courses can have a variety of formats -
weekly lessons, subject/topic lessons and/or discussion based.
- Moodle provides a wide variety of e-learning
course activities - discussion forums,
student journals, tests & quizzes, resource files & hyperlinks,
surveys, homework assignments, classroom chat sessions and more!
- All grades can be viewed on one page and
converted to spreadsheet format for downloading
- Moodle provides activity reports for each
student that allows teachers to track student activity and
participation in forums, chat, journals, etc.
- Moodle integrates with email so announcements,
discussion forum posts, feedback from teachers, etc. can be
mailed out automatically.
- Teachers can define their own grading curves &
scales for all assignments.
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