Moodle and Google Apps Education Edition™ Integration
Moodlerooms and Google collaborated to integrate Google Apps Education Edition with the world's most widely used online learning system, Moodle. The integration enhances the powerful functionality of Moodle by enabling users to concurrently use the valuable productivity tools of Google Apps (like Gmail™, Google Docs™, Google Calendar™ and Google Talk™). For more information about Google Apps Education Edition, please visit Google's Web site.
Moodlerooms and Google collaborated to integrate Google Apps Education Edition with the world's most widely used online learning system, Moodle. The integration enhances the powerful functionality of Moodle by enabling users to concurrently use the valuable productivity tools of Google Apps (like Gmail™, Google Docs™, Google Calendar™ and Google Talk™). For more information about Google Apps Education Edition, please visit Google's Web site.
Benefits of the Moodle and Google Apps Education Edition Integration
- Productivity – Add the extremely useful productivity functions of Google Apps Education Edition to Moodle, creating a powerful, all-in-one platform.
- Two-For-One User Creation – When users are created in Moodle, they are also automatically created in Google Apps with the same user name and password, decreasing the number of logins that users have to remember.
- Single Sign-On – Users are automatically logged in to Google when they log in to Moodle so they don't have to sign in twice.
- Convenience – Google Apps tools can be accessed from within Moodle without taking users away from the original page. Features open in a new tab, allowing users to easily go back and forth between Moodle and Google.
- Communication – In addition to the chat and forum discussion features of Moodle, users can also communicate using the well-known Gmail feature of Google Apps.
- Collaboration – Groups can synchronously work together on documents, presentations, etc., in Google Docs and chat without being in the same place
- Organization – Students and educators can now also have an e-mail dedicated to their courses, as well as work on and save assignments in Google Docs for the same anytime, anywhere access as Moodle.
- Open Source – The code for the integration is open source, as is Moodle, and is freely available to everyone.
- Compatibility – Google Docs is compatible with any operating system or software.
- Versioning – Google Apps provides a single productivity suite for everyone to use, eliminating issues regarding different versions of programs or files.
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See What Institutions Are Saying About Google Apps
"Everyone saw the benefits of sharing notes, lesson plans, meeting minutes, and updates on kids more easily than ever before. We became unified as a team even before we moved the functionality into our classrooms."
Jason Levy, Principal, New York City Intermediate School 339
"Google Apps is helping Arizona State University become a highly flexible university that can provide extraordinary technology experiences for its students. Google's integration of webmail, instant messaging and calendaring is second to none."
Kari Barlow, Assistant Vice President, University Technology Office, Arizona State University
See more tesimonials, videos and case studies on the Google Apps Education Edition customer page.