Elaborated from a bibliographic survey, this article aims to describe the main features and tools provided by the most used e-Learning platform in the world, MOODLE. This platform is widely publicized and recognized for being an open software, which can be downloaded, used and modified by any of the users of the platform for free. In this way, it seeks to understand how this platform has been widely used in a teaching-learning context, the didactic resources and pedagogical methodologies it provides, as well as the advantages and disadvantages it presents. From the point of view of the methodological approach, this is a qualitative and descriptive-analytical research. For a bibliographic survey, a search was carried out in the Google Scholar database, using the following descriptor: “MOODLE in a learning context”. It was concluded that the ease of access, flexibility and constant improvement are aspects that make MOODLE one of the most complete online systems for Education, however, its simple insertion is not enough to guarantee a meaningful learning environment.