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 * Welcome to the LCM Moodle Wiki**

According to [|http://moodle.org] "[|**Moodle**] is a [|software package] for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is a global development project designed to support a [|social constructionist] framework of education. Moodle is provided freely as [|Open Source] software (under the [|GNU Public License]). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: **provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights**, and **apply this same license to any derivative work**. Read the [|license] for full details and please contact the [|copyright holder] directly if you have any questions. The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a "Moodler."
 * What is Moodle?**

Moodle has vast capabilities and implications for the classroom. It provides educators with tools to create a course web site and control access so that only their students can view the site, it also provides a simple and powerful way to upload and share materials, give quizzes, lessons, and surveys, and hold online discussions and chats. ~