computoman

Schools spend a a lot of money on computer education management systems  such as the following: (values are subject to change at any time.) Blackboard has dominated the market including try to allegedly sue out of business their competitors.  If your a small school with less than a hundred students, a thousand dollars a per student seems a bit extreme to me unless you can afford it.  The login in can tell you a lot about an institution. Lee college gives you the chance to look at potential courses. Yet, when I see a credit card pictured and focused on, I wonder if the they are only looking for your money. Could be a turnoff for a potential student. Now let's look at an open source alternative. No money mentioned and you can again grab information without even signing up. The cost of the Moodle software alone is $0 per student, allowing institutions to be more competitive. It is at least something to look at if you are an education administrato...

Not so long ago there was a product called Blackboard. Sort of an internet classroom setup. Most colleges may still use it. Blackboard was allegedly trying to keep all the competitors out of the marketplace. My understanding is they lost that fight. Never really had any real experience with Blackboard except as a tech at a local college, where I heard numerous complaints about the product. What else is there? There are three major open source products we are looking at. Moodle, Drupal (which was even used for the Whitehouse web site), and Claroline. Claroline is probably the simplest, but is also the least powerful. Drupal is probably the most powerful, but requires the most work. Moodle sort of fits in the middle of the two. It is very powerful, but very structured in it's own way. Just to give you an example, here is what we did to start setting up the class. Will not go through everything., but will give you a gist of how it works. So we started by looking at what classes ...