Steps to Setup Moodle
Moodle is a course management system - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.
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Step 1: Download latest official release of Moodle.
- Step 2: Extract the zip file to a folder on your computer. You could get a folder named moodle containing a handful of folders and files.
- Step 3: Next is putting all these files in your site. So create folder with name 'moodle' under your site and upload all the files and folders into it using an FTP tool. The entire file size is approximately 45MB so it may take a while to finish.
- Moodle needs a database to run. Create a new database(eg: moodle) or you can use an existing one, moodle will prefix all its tables with mdl_ so you can easily identify moodle tables in second case
- Step 4: Start the the installation wizard by entering www.mysitename.com/moodle/ in the browser.

- use the names as shown.

- put the host server,database name in Step 3, username and password. Leave others untouched.

- let it make sure neccesary components are available

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- your site name here.

- Moodle shows up the home page.
