Since I didn't know much about the Moodle, I first researched about what it is, what it does, how it work to whom, and of course how to install and setup on Linux system.
It actually is very useful educational application that can help lots of educators to create effective online learning site. Here is some description about the Moodle from their website.
- 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.
- Moodle can be installed on any computer that can run PHP, and can support an SQL type database (for example MySQL). It can be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux (for example Red Hat or Debian GNU).
- 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.
After these researches, I realized that it isn't as simple as I thought, and understood why Songyu and Judi asked us to install and set it up for them.
During the research, I saw someone said that it might take close to a week for the beginners to set it up, and 2-3 hours if you know what to do.
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