+
+[Moodle][1] is the World's Open Source Learning Platform, widely used around the world by countless universities, schools, companies, and all manner of organisations and individuals.
+
+Moodle is designed to allow educators, administrators and learners to create personalised learning environments with a single robust, secure and integrated system.
+
+## Documentation
+
+- Read our [User documentation][3]
+- Discover our [developer documentation][5]
+- Take a look at our [demo site][4]
+
+## Community
+
+[moodle.org][1] is the central hub for the Moodle Community, with spaces for educators, administrators and developers to meet and work together.
+
+You may also be interested in:
+
+- attending a [Moodle Moot][6]
+- our regular series of [developer meetings][7]
+- the [Moodle User Association][8]
+
+## Installation and hosting
+
+Moodle is Free, and Open Source software. You can easily [download Moodle][9] and run it on your own web server, however you may prefer to work with one of our experienced [Moodle Partners][10].
+
+Moodle also offers hosting through both [MoodleCloud][11], and our [partner network][10].
+
+## License
+
+Moodle is provided freely as open source software, under version 3 of the GNU General Public License. For more information on our license see
+
+[1]: https://moodle.org
+[2]: https://moodle.com
+[3]: https://docs.moodle.org/
+[4]: https://sandbox.moodledemo.net/
+[5]: https://moodledev.io
+[6]: https://moodle.com/events/mootglobal/
+[7]: https://moodledev.io/general/community/meetings
+[8]: https://moodleassociation.org/
+[9]: https://download.moodle.org
+[10]: https://moodle.com/partners
+[11]: https://moodle.com/cloud
+[12]: https://moodledev.io/general/license
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-Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
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-Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide
-educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and
-integrated system to create personalised learning environments.
-
-You can download Moodle and run it on your own
-web server, ask one of our Moodle Partners to
-assist you, or have a MoodleCloud site set up for
-you.
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-Moodle is widely used around the world by universities, schools, companies and
-all manner of organisations and individuals.
-
-Moodle is provided freely as open source software, under the GNU General Public
-License .
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-Moodle is written in PHP and JavaScript and uses an SQL database for storing
-the data.
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-See for details of Moodle's many features.
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