Join the Moodle Revolution!!!

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

With over 20 years of experience, we offer our clients a unique blend of formal education, technical expertise in Web-based technologies and unmatched credibility in training. ClassroomRevolution is an official Moodle Partner.

Providing the highest quality Moodle services, including fully managed Moodle hosting, is our first priority as we have demonstrated time and again with our diverse base of Moodle hosting, Moodle training, and Moodle support contract clients. Moodle Hosting ClassroomRevolution

We provide Moodle hosting services on our exclusive dedicated servers that have been optimally tuned to ensure that Moodle hosting clients can benefit from a first-rate experience whenever they use Moodle.

We specialize in fulfilling the needs of K-12 and post-secondary educational institutions, government agencies, professional organizations and corporations interested in leveraging the utility of Web 2.0 technologies such as Moodle to serve their unique needs. We design, implement and customize Web-based technologies that promote communication and learning opportunities. In addition to our Moodle hosting services, we offer several different on-site and online Moodle training solutions to ensure the effective use of these technologies.

Moodle Partner

Our membership in the Moodle Partners program provides us with direct access to Moodle founder and lead developer Martin Dougiamas, as well as the other core developers of Moodle. Such access has helped us develop valuable Moodle experience over the past five years.

Our involvement in Moodle Partners program also guarantees the continued development of Moodle because 10% of all of our Moodle sales are sent back to the Moodle Trust. These funds are then used to maintain the current Moodle code and hire developers who work on refining existing Moodle features or introducing entirely new ones.

ClassroomRevolution, LLC is a fully registered and insured limited liability corporation (LLC) located near Syracuse, New York, in the United States.

ClassroomRevolution is the vision of company founders Thomas Caswell and Jeffery Watkins. Utilizing our experience as award-winning, certified classroom teachers and technology coordinators, we have made it our mission to provide all of our clients with these high-quality services in order to expand the effective implementation and use of Web-based learning and communication technologies.

Company Timeline

  • 1996: Caswell publishes educational technology article for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
  • 2000: Caswell and colleagues from Walden University present at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta, Georgia
  • 2000: Caswell recruited to coordinate educational technology for secondary schools in the Oswego City School District in New York
  • 2000: Watkins named Technology Chair for the New York State Council for the Social Studies.
  • 2000-2003: Watkins named technology director for New York State Council for the Social Studies Annual Convention
  • 2001: ClassroomRevolution first formed and offers educational technology consulting and training services
  • 2001-2003: Caswell and Watkins develop RegentsPrep.org, a free, interactive online resource for high school students taking the high-stakes Regents Examinations in New York State
  • 2003: ClassroomRevolution gains an Internet presence and evolves into a partnership as a result of successful collaboration and mutual interest in the educational benefits of open-source technologies
  • 2004: ClassroomRevolution provides web hosting and open-source theme design for international award-winning student web design submission for a competition sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Participating students earn $10,000 in scholarships and a trip to Washington, D.C. to collect their honors
  • 2004: ClassroomRevolution joins the Moodle Partners program as an official service provider in the United States
  • 2005: ClassroomRevolution delivers Moodle training and informational sessions at annual conference organized by New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education (NYSCATE) in Albany, New York

ClassroomRevolution.com and Yugma Partner On Online Learning Solutions

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

ClassroomRevolution, LLC and Yugma, Inc. (http://www.yugma.com) are pleased to announce the creation of a Joint Cooperation Agreement created to promote robust, reliable and inexpensive online learning and collaboration tools.

Moodle Hosting ClassroomRevolution.com

As a Moodle Partner, ClassroomRevolution has been authorized to provide Moodle services for the entire U.S. Market for the past four years. Using their experience and skills, the staff of ClassroomRevolution offer clients a variety of services, including: fully managed Moodle hosting, comprehensive Moodle training, and Moodle support. Moodle (http://www.moodle.org) has long been recognized as a leader in the field of online learning management system (LMS) software. Moodle is an open-source project which has spread throughout the Internet, with over 30,000 registered sites using Moodle¹ to deliver online courseware as of September 2007. The architecture of Moodle is also built using open-source software technologies including PHP and MySQL.

Yugma is a free web conferencing and online collaboration service that is also built using PHP and MySQL open-source technologies. The philosophy of open-source is also evident by the commitment of Yugma to offer a collaboration service that enables users to host sessions and invite up to 10 participants free of charge. Premium versions of Yugma are also available which allows for up to 500 participantsper session. Yugma Premium Services also extends a rich feature set including: the ability to share mouse and keyboard controls with other attendees, scheduling of sessions, session recording and webcast, whiteboard tools, built-in file sharing feature, and more.

Together, Yugma and ClassroomRevolution combine to offer a dynamic and compelling alternative to products that cost far more. The Joint Cooperation Agreement seeks to promote a complete solution for online course delivery, including live interactive collaboration. “Yugma provided an easily accessible download that afforded our Moodle training participants an opportunity to bridge the barriers of time and distance” said John Westbrook, Course Share Network Coordinator at the Alabama Independent School Association.“Yugma is very user friendly with the needed flexibility to ensure successful online conferencing.”

¹ Moodle.org. “Moodle: Moodle Statistics.” http://moodle.org/stats. 2007.

Contact Information

Thomas Caswell
ClassroomRevolution, LLC
tcaswell[at]classroomrevolution[dot]com
www.classroomrevolution.com

Jonah Cagley
Yugma, Inc.
jonah[at]yugma[dot]com
www.yugma.com