Who We Are

Moodle User Guides began as a collaborative project between Amy and Ben, two graduate students taking online classes at Western Oregon University. We both study education and technology, use Moodle as students to take fully online classes, and work to provide technical support, training, and professional development to faculty using Moodle at our home institutions. We created this site to offer an open, accessible, user-friendly, instructor-focused experience that provides both just-in-time training and more in-depth professional development resources for teachers using Moodle.

Our Vision

While there are many excellent Moodle resources out there, we’ve identified a few gaps that we hope to address with this project. First, critical information can be overly technical and challenging to locate. The information an instructor needs is often buried in a support article for Moodle administrators or scattered across multiple help forums and YouTube channels. This site offers a single, searchable resource for a single audience. Second, and perhaps most importantly, there is a lack of resources that support the building of both technical knowledge and pedagogical knowledge. For example, instructors can learn how to set up a group in Moodle, but perhaps not why they might want or not want groups in an online classroom. We believe that it’s important to connect pedagogy with technology. We hope this site is useful to the worldwide community of educators who use Moodle every day. - Amy & Ben