The District 214 has been launched with a totally new design:
http://www.d214.org/

The URL for the district Moodle site is:

http://moodle.d214.org/

Please update your links if they are pointing to the old site.

Moodle is District 214’s Course Management System (CMS) that allows students (and staff members) to participate in online learning. Moodle usage has increased significantly during the past year since the system was upgraded to version 1.9, integrated with District 214’s NetID accounts and Course Information databases and heavily promoted by District Academic Technology Coordinators. Moodle is an Open Source CMS that has very low costs compared with other similar systems that are very expensive. The main financial benefit for District 214 in using Open Source software is that there are no costly licensing fees required for using the software and there is a large community of users who are actively involved in supporting and updating the software on a regular basis to ensure that bugs are handled quickly and that new features are added to the code. By deploying Moodle on existing hardware, the only costs involved are for the time required to maintain the system which is minimal. The main educational benefit for District 214 is that Moodle is easy to use and supports a variety of learning opportunities for both staff and students in the district. As an online learning system, Moodle makes it easy to conduct complete online learning opportunites as well as blended courses.

The developers of Moodle have always had for their focus the goal of “giving educators the best tools to manage and promote learning”. As of this posting, there are more than 766,245 registered users on the official Moodle website, comprising a community of users from more than 203 countries.

So far, as the 2009-2010 school year has started, there are more than 7,500 users and more than 500 courses available online through the district Moodle site. More teachers are becoming familiar with the possibilities of Moodle and are using the tool to manage courses and to provide for ongoing conversations and collaboration during off-hours. For more information about Moodle, visit their site at http://moodle.org. For more information about deploying a Moodle course at District 214 contact your friendly, neighborhood Academic Technology Coordinator (ATC).

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