Glossary Terms

Moodle

Moodle is an open-source, self-hosted learning management system used mostly by universities, school districts, and large organizations that need full control of their own data and a highly configurable training environment. First released in 2002, it's the most widely installed LMS in the world, serving hundreds of millions of users across more than 200 countries. Its strengths are a deep, education-focused feature set: SCORM and xAPI support, a powerful quiz engine with adaptive logic, forums, assignment grading, cohort enrollment, and a large plugin library. The trade-off against a WordPress-native option like LearnDash is the heavier technical work of hosting, maintaining, and theming a separate application alongside your main site.