Moodle is a free source e-learning software platform that is also known as a Learning Management System, Course Management System or Virtual Learning Environment. It is designed to help educator in creating quality online courses. This software is used all across the world by numerous companies, schools, universities and also independent teachers. The moodle software is an open source and is free to use by any of the user.

Moodle was originally developed by Martin Dougiamas to help educators for creating online courses with an aim on interaction and collaborative construction of content. The users can easily install Moodle from any of the source without paying any cost. Moodle runs without modification on Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X, NetWare and any other systems that support PHP and a database, including most webhost providers.

PRIA International Academy of Lifelong Learning (PIALL) uses Moodle software because it allows creating Moodle-based online classes without installation or server knowledge. This software also provides added services like customization and content-development. Moodle is quiet similar to a learning management system. It is used all across the world for educating, training and developing the business settings.

Some of the features of Moodle are mentioned below:

• Assignment submission

• Grading

• Moodle instant messages

• Online calendar

• Discussion forum

• Files download

• Online quiz

• Wiki

• Online news and announcement (College and course level)

E-Learning professionals are constantly looking for the successful online e-learning solutions and new ideas that are highly efficient and cost-effective. The open source software community claims to have a great, low-cost system for course management or learning management. PIALL has also chosen Moodle because a global community of professionals and educators, who are passionate about improving the online learning experience and promoting free software supports it. Some of the factors because of which it has a wide usage are as follows:

• Object oriented, which means it is not a "software object oriented" software, rather it is a "teaching object oriented" software. This provides the richest set of base objects aggregable within a course strategy.

• It makes it easy and convenient to provide online assessment schemes.

• It helps in creating an online community, where students can easily share their experience and questions online.

• Moodle makes the learning experience more fun and interactive through the audio lessons or video teaching kits

• Nice ergonomic course model, which allows managing big amount of resources without loosing control of the structure nor sequence

• Build on efficient technologies, high information handling power with relative small size hardware

These are some of the factors because of which Moodle is prefered over other website designed for teaching and learning process. It also helps in create training materials, hosting online training or tips for rapid development of online training