Top 10 interesting facts of Moodle Development.
                     TOP 10 INTERESTING 
FACTS OF MOODLE 
DEVELOPMENT
1. MOODLE’S FOUNDER
 Moodle is the brainchild of founder 
Martin Dougiamas, who also shares his 
birthday with Moodle on 20th of August.
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2. AGE
 Moodle was founded in August 2002 
and now it is about 17 years old. It is 
the world’s largest open-source 
learning platform.
3. ABBREVIATION
 There are six letters in Moodle, which 
stands for Modular Object-Oriented 
Dynamic Learning Environment.
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4. COUNTRIES BY REGISTRATION
 The top 10 countries by number of 
registered Moodle sites are the USA, 
UK, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, India, 
Germany, Colombia and Australia.
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5. MOODLE PARTNER SERVICE
 The key areas in which Moodle Partners 
provide services are analytics, 
consulting, courseware, developing, 
hosting, integration etc.
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6. ALL CONTINENTS
 There are registered Moodle sites on all 
7 continents on Earth, including 
Antarctica!
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7. MOODLE COMMUNITY
 Millions of developers, partners, 
administrators and users around the 
world form the Moodle community.
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8. USAGE
 Moodle can be used for peer 
assessment, discussion and debate, 
sharing files and media, collaboration 
and even gamification.
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9. LANGUAGE OPTIONS
 Moodle is available on all popular 
languages to teach students in their own 
language. It has been translated into 126 
languages for the latest version.
10. MYTHS
 There are several myths about Moodle 
and some of them are need for technical 
expertise to use it, requirement to be a 
PHP programmer, the school should 
have a sophisticated server etc.
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