Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), also known as a course management system, used by WIT to help support lecturers in their teaching and students in their learning.  Moodle provides areas where lecturers can upload course notes and information, and communicate online with students (e.g. set and collect student assignments, send out class emails, etc.).  It has tons of features for students and teachers, and these features expand with every new release by Moodle's international development team.

Moodle has an extensive range of features that can be used to facilitate a variety of pedagogies and approaches including distance and flexible learning; for example, quizzes can be used to support self-directed learning, discussions forums to support peer and group based learning, and adobe Connect to support virtual delivery of lecturers, etc.  

WIT lecturers can use Moodle to complement and enhance face-to-face lectures by providing a central online location to access the learning resources and associated activities.  It can be used to supplement direct class instruction and/or provide self-paced, interactive online learning opportunities.

School offices and their associated administrative staff also use Moodle to share information and resources relevant to their students and staff members.  

Some typical features of Moodle are:

• Assignment submission
• Discussion forum
• Files download
• Grading
• Moodle instant messages
• Online calendar
• Online news and announcement (College and course level)
• Online quiz
• Wiki

Moodle's infrastructure supports many types of plug including:

• activities (including word and math games)
• resource types
• question types (multiple choice, true and false, fill in the blank, etc.)
• data field types (for the database activity)
• graphical themes
• authentication methods (can require username and password accessibility)
• enrollment methods
• content filters