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Technology is been used in almost all aspects, including education. Anytime, anywhere learning is the new jargon in today’s digital world. So there is a need to change teaching techniques to the technological changes. The recent trend of higher educational institute throughout the world is to use e-learning as it delivers more training to students at its fast, convenient and consistent advantage. A Learning Management System plays a vital role in this and it is software for delivering, tracking and managing learning instruction. There are so many LMS available like Moodle, Blackboard, TopClass, Ilias etc. Moodle is one of the best because its open-source, easy-to-use and also cost-effective LMS solution. In India, only very few higher educational institutions offer teaching-learning through LMS. Since it’s a new paradigm of teaching-learning, students and teachers are unaware of its technology and its implementation. This paper reviews Moodle as the LMS (Learning Management System) for delivering online courses for Computer Science students in a higher educational institute. It describes the methodology in building and also the learning outcomes of a LMS. It gives an in-sight of the various facilities that can be used in Moodle like blogs, chat, forum, uploading of assignment, viewing or downloading e-content, news and assessment of students through online quiz etc. |