Moodlerooms Aids Effective Online Teaching and Learning

Moodlerooms is enabling simple access to the quality, enterprise-level tools teachers and students need to teach and learn online.

The company has developed integration to this end, which connects Microsoft’s (News - Alert) Live@edu services and a popular learning management system called Moodle.

This integration makes select functionality of Live@edu directly accessible within the Moodle 2 and 1.9 environments via single sign-on, further boosting effective online teaching and learning.

e-Learning company Moodlerooms claims to be committed to supporting the goals of education across the globe.

Moodlerooms is releasing the Live@edu integration to the 55-million user open-source Moodle community to give a boost to the Moodle teaching and learning experience and extend the global reach of sustainable education solutions.

Elaborating on Microsoft Live@edu, Moodlerooms notes that it makes hosted email, communications and collaboration services freely available to educational institutions.

Users of Live@edu have access to Microsoft Outlook Live, a series of Microsoft Office web applications and Windows Live SkyDrive.

There are several benefits for Moodlerooms’ Microsoft Live@edu services plug-in for Moodle.

Users can easily log into courses using their Windows Live ID and display select Live Services on a Moodle site.

They can also view and compose emails and calendar events within a Moodle site using Outlook Live and access Windows Live Messenger chat as well as Bing search engine within a course.

“The interoperability between Moodle 2 and Microsoft’s Live@edu services is important to Moodle users on a global basis,” said Phill Miller, Moodlerooms vice president of Product Strategy, “By having this available in Moodle, Microsoft and Moodle users worldwide will be able to use the most recent releases of both products in a seamless fashion.”

Moodlerooms regularly forms partnerships to further its growth. Last year, it formed a collaborative partnership with Campus Management to establish integration between their company's respective product offerings.