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What is Moodle?

Moodle is an open-source learning management system (LMS) used by schools, universities, training providers and businesses around the world. Teachers and trainers build online courses with lessons, files, quizzes and assignments, and learners work through them at their own pace or as part of a class.

Moodle tracks progress, grades work and keeps learners engaged with forums, messaging and badges. It is equally suited to a school running blended learning, a business delivering compliance training or an organisation selling online courses.

Moodle features

What you get when you run Moodle on Hoopla Hosting.

Courses and activities

Build courses with pages, files, videos, H5P interactive content, lessons and SCORM packages.

Quizzes and assignments

Create quizzes from a question bank with many question types, and collect and mark assignments online.

Gradebook and progress

Track grades, activity completion and course completion, and issue certificates and badges.

Communication tools

Forums, announcements, messaging and notifications keep learners and teachers connected.

Roles and enrolment

Control what teachers, students and managers can do, and enrol learners manually, by self-enrolment or in cohorts.

Moodle app

Learners can access courses, submit work and get notifications on their phones with the free Moodle app.

What can you build with Moodle?

Schools and tertiary providers

Online and blended learning for students.

Staff training and inductions

Compliance, health and safety and onboarding courses.

Professional development

Associations delivering courses and tracking CPD, with LimeSurvey for detailed course feedback.

Selling online courses

Course creators delivering paid training.

Softaculous one-click application installer

Why host Moodle with Hoopla?

Install Moodle in a few clicks with Softaculous in cPanel, then keep it running on fast, secure New Zealand hosting backed by a local support team.

  • One-click install and updates with Softaculous
  • Staging copies to test changes safely
  • Daily backups with JetBackup
  • Free SSL certificates
  • LiteSpeed web server and SSD storage
  • Web application firewall
  • Auckland infrastructure and 24/7 support
  • Free migration from your current host
FREE MIGRATION

Moodle hosting requirements

Moodle stores course files in its data folder and relies on scheduled tasks that should run every minute through cron. It also uses more memory than a typical website when many learners are active. We recommend Business Hosting for most Moodle sites. Small or trial sites can start on web hosting, and large schools or organisations may suit a Managed cPanel VPS.

Recommended: Business Hosting

$43.43+GST49.94incl. GST/month

Starting price, plus room to upgrade as your Moodle site grows.

Prices are in NZD and exclude GST.
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Not sure what you need? Ask our team.

Getting started with Moodle

  1. Order a Business Hosting plan, or log in to your existing Hoopla cPanel account.
  2. Open Softaculous Apps Installer in cPanel and search for Moodle.
  3. Choose the domain to install on, set your admin username, password and email, then click Install.
  4. Set up the Moodle cron job in cPanel to run every minute.
  5. Log in as the administrator and complete the site settings, then create your course categories and first course.
  6. Add teachers and learners, or turn on self-enrolment, and install the Moodle app on your phone to test it.

Moodle Hosting FAQs

Which plan do I need for Moodle?

Moodle stores course files and uses scheduled tasks, so we recommend Business Hosting for most sites. Small or trial sites can start on web hosting.

Can I install Moodle with one click?

Yes. Moodle is available in Softaculous in your cPanel account. Remember to set up the Moodle cron job in cPanel after installing.

Can you migrate my existing Moodle site?

Yes. Contact us with the size of your site and our team will help plan the migration.

How many learners can Moodle support?

That depends on how many are active at once and how your courses are built. Business Hosting suits small to medium sites. For hundreds of concurrent users, talk to us about a Managed cPanel VPS.

Is Moodle free?

Yes. Moodle is free and open source. Some plugins and themes are paid.

Is learner data stored in New Zealand?

Our New Zealand hosting runs on Auckland infrastructure, so your Moodle data is stored in New Zealand.

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Ready to launch Moodle?

Choose a plan, or contact our team and we can help you pick the right one.