MOODLE at moodle.org

Downloading Moodle

Moodle is available for you to use freely on your own server (under the GPL licence).

If you do use Moodle, I'd appreciate an email from you so I can keep in touch with how it's being used. You should probably also enrol in the online course on this site called "Using Moodle".

There are three ways to download Moodle:
1. Download the latest stable release

    Moodle 1.0.8.1 was released 12th January, 2003.

        * Download Moodle 1.0.8.1 as a tar/gzip archive (1.5M) or
        * Download Moodle 1.0.8.1 as a zip archive (2.0M) 

    For more information, see the Release notes, the Installation Guide or the Upgrading Guide.

    Other optional downloads:

        * Download Moodle MySQL Admin 1.0.8.1 (1.1 Mb)
          A drop-in module to manage your MySQL database via the Moodle admin panel (it's actually a re-packaged version of phpMyAdmin 2.3.3). Note that some older versions of this module do not work with Moodle 1.0.8 and later. To install, just unzip this archive inside the admin folder.
        * Download Moodle Cron for Windows (151k)
          This package contains tools to automate some tasks on Windows servers (on Unix you can just use the built-in cron tool). 


2. Download a nightly dump

    A complete copy of Moodle is created each night using the latest code. These dumps have not always been tested and could contain known bugs or half-finished features (although I do try my best to keep the tree in working order). You can download the latest nightly in either gzipped tar or zip formats:

        * Download latest nightly as a tar/gzip archive or
        * Download latest nightly as a zip archive 


3. Use CVS to access the source archive

    The CVS archive contains the newest development code, and can not be guaranteed stable. It can be an extremely convenient way of maintaining a server, however, and is quite safe if you do your updates right after major releases when the tree is stable.

    To connect to the CVS server anonymously with read-only access, you can use this command on Unix:

    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.moodle.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/moodle login

    When asked for a password, just hit Enter.

    Then, to download the Moodle code, use this command:

    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.moodle.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/moodle co moodle

    Later, to update your local copy of Moodle to the current version in CVS you just need to go into your local moodle directory and type:

    cvs update -dP

    There are ways to do all this on Windows as well, but it's a little more fiddly. For more information, see this CVS page in the Moodle documentation.
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