recent News

NEW OFFICE

We've moved into a new office in North Perth. The original moodle house was getting a little too small to accommodate both Pukunui Technology ...

OPEN UNIVERSITY

The big news to come out of moodle.org recently is the decision by Open University to use moodle as it's LMS. You can read more about this ...

NEW SITE

We've got our new site up and running. Many thanks to Jeffrey Watkins from Classroom Revolution for his help on the graphics. The new design better ...

about Moodle

Moodle
"Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. It's an ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education."
"Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions."

Community
Moodle is supported by an active community of developers, teachers, trainers, students, executives, programmers, artists, priests, men, women, children, teenagers, various types of flora and fauna. In summary there are people from all walks of life who are using moodle and getting involved in helping others and in the development of moodle. The main community site at moodle.org is the home of all things moodle related. To get the most out of moodle you should signup for a free account and get involved. You'll be surprised at how friendly and helpful everyone is.

Software
Moodle is primarily developed in Linux using Apache, MySQL and PHP (also sometimes known as the LAMP platform), but is also regularly tested with PostgreSQL and on Windows XP, Mac OS X and Netware 6 operating systems.
You can download moodle and various add-on modules from download.moodle.org. You can also access the code via CVS. Read the documentation for using CVS to download moodle.

pukunui Technology

Pukunui Technology was started in 2000 by Shane Elliott in Perth, Western Australia and has quickly grown to an international enterprise with clients from around the globe. With a background in both the education and IT sectors, we were proud to find a local product of the calibre of moodle. In 2004 we became an official moodle partner and currently provide a range of moodle related services to education and training institutions of all sizes. We are involved in the ongoing development of the core moodle code and proudly promote it as a quality educational product.
One of the questions we get asked most is "What does Pukunui mean?" It is derived from Maori and literally means big belly. Why choose such a strange Maori name for an Australian business? Well it may have something to do with Shane's Maori ancestry and his appetite for a good steak but you'll have to ask him for the real reason.