What are Course Management Systems?
Course management systems are usually named by the developer. You may have heard of Blackboard, Angel, or Moodle. Schools in the Oakland Schools Consortium (of which Farmington Public School is a part) use Moodle Course Management System. Course management systems, among other things, allow students and instructors to share ideas, share lessons, blog, create wikis, upload assignments, upload quizzes and tests, and chat in synchronous or asynchronous sessions. all in a closed, password protected environments. A password is required to enter the Moodle website and all grades are locked and available only to course administrator access.
