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  "markdown": "Founder and Chairperson.\n\nMartin Dougiamas founded Moodle, whose first release was 1.0 on 20 August 2002, and chairs the board of Moodle Pty Ltd. The company's about page dates Moodle's beginnings to 1999.\n\n## What Martin builds\n\n- [Moodle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/moodle.md), graded B, 67.7/100, in Learning, tutoring \u0026 assessment. Moodle is an open-source learning management system that schools and companies run themselves or through MoodleCloud. Its web services expose 800 functions for courses, quizzes, assignments and grades, and Moodle 5.3 adds a scoped REST API with personal access tokens. Founder and Chairperson, researched 2026-11-03.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Marie Achour](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marie-achour/), Chief Product Officer\n- [Scott Anderberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-anderberg/), Chief Executive Officer\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Education For The Many](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/education-for-the-many/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Martin Dougiamas?\n\nMartin Dougiamas founded Moodle, whose first release was 1.0 on 20 August 2002, and chairs the board of Moodle Pty Ltd. The company's about page dates Moodle's beginnings to 1999.\n\n### What does Moodle Pty Ltd make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Moodle from Moodle Pty Ltd. Moodle is an open-source learning management system that schools and companies run themselves or through MoodleCloud. Its web services expose 800 functions for courses, quizzes, assignments and grades, and Moodle 5.3 adds a scoped REST API with personal access tokens.\n\n### Who has invested in Moodle Pty Ltd?\n\nThe sources our research read name Education For The Many.\n\n### How are Martin's tools graded?\n\nMoodle is graded B, 67.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://moodle.com/about/leadership/\n- https://moodle.com/about-us/\n- https://moodle.com/privacy-notice/\n- https://moodle.org/.well-known/security.txt\n- https://docs.moodle.org/dev/MoodleNet/Sustainability\n- https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-10-02-the-world-s-most-popular-lms-provider-moodle-raises-money-for-the-1st-time\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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