# Martin Dougiamas > Martin Dougiamas is founder and Chairperson. Moodle on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/martin-dougiamas/ - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/martin-dougiamas/index.md (~850 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/martin-dougiamas/index.min.md (~580 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/martin-dougiamas/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT .grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-03 Founder and Chairperson. Martin 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. ## What Martin builds - [Moodle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/moodle.md), graded B, 67.7/100, in Learning, tutoring & 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. ## Works with - [Marie Achour](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marie-achour/), Chief Product Officer - [Scott Anderberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/scott-anderberg/), Chief Executive Officer ## Backed by - [Education For The Many](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/education-for-the-many/) ## Questions ### Who is Martin Dougiamas? Martin 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. ### What does Moodle Pty Ltd make? Anchor 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. ### Who has invested in Moodle Pty Ltd? The sources our research read name Education For The Many. ### How are Martin's tools graded? Moodle is graded B, 67.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://moodle.com/about/leadership/ - https://moodle.com/about-us/ - https://moodle.com/privacy-notice/ - https://moodle.org/.well-known/security.txt - https://docs.moodle.org/dev/MoodleNet/Sustainability - https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-10-02-the-world-s-most-popular-lms-provider-moodle-raises-money-for-the-1st-time These 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. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp