I agree, Moodle is good and robust. My department is
preparing to deploy this Learning Management System with our nursing curriculum
for Missouri hospitals. I would caution however that it has a high
learning curve. MySQL is the preferred database for this LMS but it can
run with other DBs as well.
A couple other decent LMSs to look into are Atutor (http://www.atutor.ca/) and Claroline (http://www.claroline.net/).
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Adam C. Fallert
Instructional Materials Laboratory
Assistant Computer Programmer
University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, MO. 65202
Phone: (573) 884-5611
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From:
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Behalf Of Greg Johnson
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:16 PM
To: MLUG Members
Subject: Re: [MLUG] Content Management Systems
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
wrote:
I am wanting something that teachers can make their pages on
the website
with that is easy to learn and use. Most will not want to have to learn
anything complicated. I just want them to be able to go to their webpage
on our website and edit it.
Overkill for general purposes, but open source Moodle (http://moodle.org) is a worthy content management
system for educational application. It tends to edu terminology, with
"courses", "lessons", "resources",
"activities", etc. It has filters that can for example turn a
link to multimedia such as a .mov file into an embed for the multimedia. I
use it because a plugin lets me type math expressions such as `sqrt(a^2+b^2)`
and have them display in traditional notation. If a teacher gets
ambitious, one can use it to administer multiple-choice or short answer quizzes
with automatic grading. Creating HTML has a simple online editor, much
like gmail or yahoo. Moodle runs on Linux, Mac, or Win, organizes items
in MySql, and uses PHP. It has packaged installs for each OS (Xamp,
etc.), so with about 10 minutes of 1-time effort I can run it from a usb stick,
without net.
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- Greg Johnson, MU High School
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