Moodle is the LSE's centrally supported virtual learning environment for undergraduate and taught courses. A virtual learning environment mirrors and supports bricks and mortar learning environments, enabling a "blended learning" approach.
Why use Moodle?
When designing Moodle courses it helps to think of each course as a (virtual) classroom, in which learning, teaching, collaboration, discussion and reflection happens, as well as storing and sharing of multimedia resources: text, images, audio, video.
Teachers decide here, as they do in the "real world", what students can do, how they can communicate with each other, what and when they should and can read documents. Teachers can collect formative and summative assignments, give feedback, assign group work and enable peer review assignments.
Moodle is integrated with Turnitin, a tool that can help students to check their work for inadvertent plagiarism, such as citing and referencing mistakes or omissions.
Moodle is integrated with Echo360, the LSE's lecture recording system, for allowing and restricting student access to recordings easily.
Official Moodle Platform Accessibility statement
Guides, Advice and Training
Please note:
Moodle Annual Refresh
Each year, Moodle courses are refreshed to remove old student data and allow departments to prepare their "virtual classrooms" for the next cohort of students. Current staff and students will need to take action to ensure they have all the information they need from Moodle before the refresh takes effect.
Detailed information on the annual refresh.
Further Reading
Costa, Carolina, & Alvelos, H, The use of Moodle e-learning platform: a study in a Portuguese University (2012), Procedia Technology 5.
Weller, M. (2011) The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Academic Practice, London, Bloomsbury Academic.