On September 19th, Moodle access was removed from the faculty MyNMC page. While Moodle has served as a valuable tool for many years, the time has come to say goodbye. To commemorate Moodle’s service, we’ve included a just-for-fun eulogy and some photos from a small celebration we held to honor its 17 years of service. If you need to access any of your old course content, please know that you can still contact Ed Tech for a limited time to retrieve it.

A Just-for-Fun Eulogy

Friends and colleagues, we are gathered here today to celebrate the lifecycle of an NMC tech legend: Moodle. Our Learning Management System for 17 long years has finally shuffled off its ethernet cable. 

Born in the age of dial-up and floppy disks, Moodle was a product of a simpler, much more confusing time.Some say it was the robust features that made Moodle so special. Others, the… unique… aesthetic. 

But we all know what truly defined Moodle: the help desk tickets. A constant, flowing river of despair and frustration. “My grades aren’t showing up.” “The quiz won’t open.” “I accidentally deleted my entire course and all its contents.” Moodle never judged, it simply… was there. Waiting for another user to be added, another ticket submitted, another faculty member to be lost in its labyrinthine settings.

And who could forget the META courses? The Frankenstein of the academic world. Two, three, sometimes seven courses mashed together into a single monstrosity. A chaotic mess of overlapping calendars, conflicting due dates, and discussion forums that no one, not even the creator, could fully follow. And heaven help anyone who needed to undo a META.

Moodle, you were a wild beast. Unpredictable, untamable, and often, infuriatingly slow. You taught us patience, resilience, and the true meaning of clearing our cache. You were the digital equivalent of a cranky old grandfather: you got the job done, but you made sure everyone knew how difficult it was.

But now, we’re pulling the plug. Replaced by Canvas, a sleek, modern, and dare I say, intuitive successor. No more clunky interfaces. No more strange usability. No more “METAs,” a term that meant nothing to nobody. Instead, Canvas has “Cross-listings,” which means, well, cross-listing a course, an actual term for an actual thing.

So, let us say goodbye. To the big orange M, to the cryptic error messages, to the endless support tickets. Rest in peace, Moodle. May your servers forever be free from bugs, and may your code run clean and true in the great LMS in the sky.