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The Scale of Moodle

Geoff Riley

3rd July 2009

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Our Moodle VLE continues to develop and several schools and colleges have signed up for the forthcoming academic year. It is interesting to track the official statistics for Moodle, based on registration details held with the Moodle website. Accessing this today I found the following:

Countries with registered sites: 198
Registered validated sites 35,953
Number of countries 198
Courses 2,239,644
Users 24,169,688
Teachers 1,115,380
Enrolments 13,467,069
Forum posts 32,623,114
Resources 18,549,215
Quiz questions 28,075,039

The Open University has over 450,000 registered users and there are in excess of 2,700 Moodle courses registered in the UK.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.