ChatGPT and Moodle Walk into a Bar: Capabilities, Integration, Use Cases, and Challenges

Are you ready to explore the next frontier in e-learning with ChatGPT? This innovative artificial intelligence technology will revolutionize the way we teach and learn in Moodle, the world-renowned Learning Management System. This article draws attention to five powerful capabilities of ChatGPT: contextual conversing, feedback response, analytical power, adaptive tutoring, and multilingual capabilities. It explains a three-step technical procedure of integrating ChatGPT in Moodle using a publicly accessible Moodle instance at ResearchIC.com. A follow-up of eight use cases provides a user manual for the system, prompting for information, performing calculations on numerical data, interpreting data analysis results, generating data for educational purposes, supporting course design activities, providing emotional support, and supporting extended learning. The article concludes with a discussion of six challenges that may arise, but overall maintains an optimistic view of the future of applying ChatGPT to enhance teaching and learning. This research has the potential to inform and inspire multiple stakeholders in higher education institutions (e.g., students, teachers, system admins) to experiment with ChatGPT in their online teaching and learning environments.