The Office Add-in for Moodle is not the first tool from Microsoft designed to bridge the Moodle Course Management System (CMS) with its own technologies. In mid-2009, the Redmond-based company released an open-source
Live Services Plug-in for Moodle, and now teachers running two pervasive teaching solutions, Office and Moodle, have a new add-in available for download. The Office Add-in for Moodle promises to streamline as best as possible accessing documents in Moodle, as well as uploading files, straight from Microsoft Office. At this point in time, only Office 2003 and Office 2007 are supported, allowing teachers to open and save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to a Moodle website.