Moodle. It’s fun to say, and fun to play around with. I’ve spent a good part of the day playing with Moodle to set it up for use on a project. Well, that’s a lie. I spent maybe 10 minutes to set it up, and the rest of the time messing around with modules, themes, courses, lessons and activities to see what it can do.
In my early experimentation, it seems like an amazing and flexible LMS. Looks like it will be able to do everything we need for this project, and I’d be surprised if it couldn’t be tasked as the campus LMS as well. Lots of institutional and political reasons why that won’t happen any time soon, but the software feels pretty close to ready. I know Athabasca is running their campus on Moodle (and ELGG), and I’m wondering what they’re finding about large-scale deployment of Moodle…
Moodle. It’s fun to say, and fun to play around with. I’ve spent a good part of the day playing with Moodle to set it up for use on a project. Well, that’s a lie. I spent maybe 10 minutes to set it up, and the rest of the time messing around with modules, themes, courses, lessons and activities to see what it can do.
In my early experimentation, it seems like an amazing and flexible LMS. Looks like it will be able to do everything we need for this project, and I’d be surprised if it couldn’t be tasked as the campus LMS as well. Lots of institutional and political reasons why that won’t happen any time soon, but the software feels pretty close to ready. I know Athabasca is running their campus on Moodle (and ELGG), and I’m wondering what they’re finding about large-scale deployment of Moodle…
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D’Arcy,
Also consider trying playing with Sakai (IF you already haven’t).
Peace,
Donna
http://www.sakaiproject.org/
Sakai sounds interesting, but I really don’t want to have to install and manage a Big Java Application (and supporting libraries, etc…) for a small project. Moodle is just a bundle of PHP code that will run pretty much anywhere with little or no intervention.
I’d love to be wrong about requirements for Sakai, though…
Daily Update — December 11, 2006
Here’s our take on news that matters for Wednesday, January 11. Today’s theme is Apple and here is a link to coverage of Steve Job’s keynote speech at MacWorld. Today, our news that matters section will focus entirely on Jobs’ product announcement…