Someone asked in another thread about the advantages of using Moodle. Here's some items I wrote off the top of my head. At some point, I should make a more formal document on it - an FAQ. I'll probably have to add some things in there about open source since I can't assume others will know what that means and how it impacts stuff like documentation and development. Where we would have a central repository or wiki server for all the documentation related to the class that others can "pull/sync" from and also contribute upstream to.
* Moodle provides a way to have accountability for those in your study group.
* Moodle provides a way for individuals to work with others on a course topic as to keep them motivated and focused to complete it. Most individual studies by people ever are completed. I believed it's because of a lack of fellowship and also peer-pressure to met expectations.
* It allows you to offer bible study class not only in-person but allow the inclusion of remote users.
* Moodle allows you to extend, for example, your once a week in-person study group into an activity that can also occur 24x7 remotely. Moodle has a very good mobile app.
* In theory, it can act as a local county/city resource hub for education and group activities for all local churches. Instead of everyone doing something by themselves, you can leverage the once and done process so all can benefit.
* Once a course is done, it can be shared/exported to other Moodle servers. This allows it to be multiplied to other ministries easily.
* You could close or leave open a "class" within Moodle. One advantage of leaving it open is, the next session you do could grow off of the content/submissions left by the classes before it. Example content could be: discussion boards, papers submitted, etc.
* There are free hosting options for moodle.
* You can create course content and activities around, for example, video's you might want to teach from. Day 1, link to first video on Acts 1-3 of a series you found on Youtube, for example. Then in Moodle, you could create a discussion topic for Acts 1-3, a quiz, and maybe a paper submission requirement.