MOODLE is no noodle.

The first online tool that I have chosen to assess is MOODLE, http://www.moodle.com, the online software that is used by Dr. J. Cyrus in her ED 451 class.

MOODLE is designed to be used by institutions of higher learning and by large corporations to train and educate students and employees either in a long-distance setting or as a supplement to traditional classroom setting. With MOODLE a teacher or corporate instructor can assign tasks, set up chat-rooms and forums, and accept online submissions of assignments. The teacher is also able to post syllabi and set deadlines for the submission of said assignments. Furthermore, MOODLE's homepage allows the user to inform the authors and webmasters in Australia of any concerns or problems that arise during the use of MOODLE for its intended purpose. As either a strictly online education format or as a supplemental tool for in-class instruction MOODLE is invaluable to ED 451, and could be so for ther courses and classes. I find MOODLE very easy to use.

On a scale of 0-4, I would give this tool a score of 4. I have never encountered any problems whiel using it and it has never caused me any heartache or grief.