The mission of umonline is to promote and support excellence and innovation in online teaching and learning at the university of montana through supporting the creation of top quality online, blended and webenhanced learning opportunities for students. Everything we produce is available for you to download and use for free. The learning management system that the university of montana uses for online coursework. The university of montana, montana tech, helena college, the university of montana western and the montana digital academy use a version of moodle provided and hosted by blackboard open lms. Umonline is committed to working with our partners and the extended educational community to provide an effective and robust online learning solution that meets the needs of students, faculty, staff and. Located in missoula, montana, the university of montana is a place where toptier students, educators and researchers from across the country and around the globe come to thrive. Moodle is a course management system cms, also known as a learning management system lms or a virtual learning environment vle. Kelly mckinnie associate professor and associate chair graduate program. A free course management system cms to create online learning sites. Review the system requirements for your pc, mac or linux based device to ensure your device can accommodate the software properly. Which is the same process you would use to sign into both moodle and cyberbear. Department of mathematical sciences university of montana. Faculty and staff support umonline university of montana. A custom moodle module to provide a custom home page allowing users to pick a variety of courses, add them to a shopping cart and pay via paypal.