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-QUICK INSTALL
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+Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
-For the impatient, here is a basic outline of the
-installation process, which normally takes me only
-a few minutes:
+Moodle <https://moodle.org> is a learning platform designed to provide
+educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and
+integrated system to create personalised learning environments.
-1) Move the Moodle files into your web directory.
+You can download Moodle <https://download.moodle.org> and run it on your own
+web server, ask one of our Moodle Partners <https://moodle.com/partners/> to
+assist you, or have a MoodleCloud site <https://moodle.com/cloud/> set up for
+you.
-2) Create a single database for Moodle to store all
- it's tables in (or choose an existing database).
+Moodle is widely used around the world by universities, schools, companies and
+all manner of organisations and individuals.
-3) Visit your Moodle site with a browser, you should
- be taken to the install.php script, which will lead
- you through creating a config.php file and then
- setting up Moodle, creating an admin account etc.
+Moodle is provided freely as open source software, under the GNU General Public
+License <https://docs.moodle.org/dev/License>.
-4) Set up a cron task to call the file admin/cron.php
- every five minutes or so.
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-For more information, see the INSTALL DOCUMENTATION:
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- http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle
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-A local copy can also be found in
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- lang/en_utf8/help/install.html (or your language)
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-Good luck and have fun!
-Martin Dougiamas, Lead Developer
+Moodle is written in PHP and JavaScript and uses an SQL database for storing
+the data.
+See <https://docs.moodle.org> for details of Moodle's many features.
