Hi Mark<br><br>I have been running Drupal and Moodle on a local computer using the MoWes software for some time, as a development environment.<br><br>The MoWes (Mobile Webserver) lets you bundle the CMS and LMS along with the server stuff they need to run ( Apache, MySQL, PHP etc) on a student computer, or USB drive or external hard drive. The students can then have complete admin ability over their own installation. If you do it with a USB stick or external hard drive, their applications AND their data (the actual web site) all live on the device and can be taken home and worked on.<br>
<br>There are several similar environments that do the same thing but I've found MoWes to be the easiest to use as the whole install is one zip file.<br><br>This (to me anyway) seems a better alternative to trying to manage a school server with multiple CMS and LMS installations for students. Plus it is accessible from home. Kids just need a $10 USB drive. MoWes is free.<br>
<br>It has the disadvantage that each student's installation is local so they can't have a classroom-wide wiki. Actually they probably could with some configuration but as soon as things start to travel on school networks there is a security etc risk to be considered. <br>
<br>Oh - there were some people who had problems with using MoWes when Skype is running - this can be fixed by terminating Skype, though I just noticed with my latest install that it seems to work OK with Skype now.<br><br>
<br>Hope this helps,<br><br>Ken<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Mark KELLY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all. I'm seriously thinking about ditching Dreamweaver for a CMS for U3O1 next year.<br>
<br>A CMS is far more meaningful for modern websites, especially community-based, interactive sites like wikis, forums and blogs. Less simulation will be required, for a start.<br>
<br>The minimum features list says the required skills for webpage editing (<a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/correspondence/bulletins/2010/July/vce_study.html#2" target="_blank">http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/correspondence/bulletins/2010/July/vce_study.html#2</a>) are:<br>
<ul><li>cascading style sheet</li><li>edit and format content</li><li>links (relative and absolute links, internal and external links)</li><li>navigation</li><li>buttons</li><li>screen layout</li><li>
tagging (metadata tags, alt tags)</li><li>forms</li><li>incorporate images/sound</li></ul>and all of these appear in a CMS, as far as I can tell.<br><br>So the big question is: has anyone successfully put a CMS like Joomla or Moodle onto locked-down school computers for student use?<br>
<br>I'd like to hear about it.<br><br>Regards<br>Mark<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mark Kelly<br>Manager Information Systems<br>Reporting Manager<br>IT Learning Area Manager<br><br>McKinnon Secondary College<br>
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