Moodle in the Cloud

On July 6th 2015 Moodle launched a free service in the cloud: "moodlecloud.com". This new service will be very useful for small companies or individual teachers. Some of the features are as follows...

1. Limited to 50 users
2. You can upload files up to 200 Mb of space. A good workaround will be to host files with Droxpbox or Google Drive or videos with Youtube and once online embed them in our Moodle cloud web.

3. Only allows core themes and plugins, so you can not use the themes or plugins contributed by users of the moodle community

4. They have implemented an authentication system that relies on your mobile/cell phone instead of email. (To minimize the effect of spammers and troublemakers, is the reason they give). I found this a bit intimidating when taking the decision about creating my site.

5. Allows videoconferencing through a open source service calls "bigbluebutton.org" but it´s limited to 6 people and we will not be able to record the classes (bigbluebutton.org offer that feature when not used with Moodle cloud).

The new Moodle cloud seems to fix very well for small companies or individual teachers who do not have the resources to install their own Moodle on a server.

A downside of this service is that it comes with some advertising adds in the footer what is a big problem for companies but could be of not much importance for individual teachers or freelancers. You can hide the ads from your students for AU $5/month

Here you can see an introduction to MooldeCloud and guidelines in how to create a free account.

Thanks for reading!