Hi, and thanks in advance for your help.
I'm not teaching at this moment due to an injury, and when I teach in September, I'll need to use some kind of course software to reduce the physical load on my body. I know that one other teacher has used Moodle in our school. But right now I can't just go there and work with that teacher, or with our IT administrator.
I am not particularly computer-literate, so please go ahead and dumb down your responses as much as possible. For example, I don't know for sure what a server is, and I have no idea what PHP means.
I have a Mac, which I bought a few years ago. I'm using whatever operating system came with it, plus whatever upgrades are automatically suggested. It has Safari, and I downloaded and use Chrome quite a bit. I don't know what the versions are, nor how to find them.
At school, the IT administrator runs a completely different system. The computers are PCs, I think the operating system is called GNU, and I think the browsers are Mozilla and/or SnowLeopard. I know he's into open-source software, and he's also very security-conscious. I want to stay aligned with those priorities, but I really don't know what I'm doing at all.
I would like to install Moodle correctly at home, develop my fall courses on it, and then start using them with my students at school in September. I want to be able to manage my course sites from home, work, my iPhone (also a couple years old), or wherever is possible.
Is this possible? Can it be explained to me in simple steps with no unexplained jargon? I got completely lost when I tried to read the instructions for downloading to a Mac, never mind my questions about creating teaching product that will be fully functional in all the different environments.
I would be incredibly grateful.
