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<title>Moodle Docs: Introduction</title>
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<h2>Introduction</h2>
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<p>Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites.
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It's an ongoing development project designed to support a <a href="http://dougiamas.com/writing/herdsa2002/">social constructionist</a> framework of education. </p>
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<p>Moodle is provided freely as <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html">
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Open Source</a> software (under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">
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GNU Public License</a>). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that
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you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle
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<b>provided</b> that you agree: to provide the source to others; to not modify
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or remove the original license, and apply this same license to any derivative
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work. Read the license for full details and please contact the <a href="http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=1&course=1">copyright
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holder</a> directly if you have any questions.
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<p>Moodle will run on any computer that can run <a href="http://www.php.net/">
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PHP</a>, and can support many types of database (particularly <a href="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a>).</p>
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<p>The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic
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Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists.
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It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something,
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doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often
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leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was
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developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching
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an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.</p>
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<p>Come and <a href="http://moodle.org/community/" target="_top">moodle with us</a>!</p>
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<p><br>
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<p align="CENTER"><font size="1"><a href="." target="_top">Moodle Documentation</a></font></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><font size="1">Version: $Id$</font></p>
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