[Moodle] moodle vs sharepoint?

Mon Apr 24 15:35:07 EST 2006

Hi Suz

Our Network is running Microsoft NOS and our techs are all MCP or MCSE.

When I first wanted to set up Moodle there was a phobia of open source and a
reluctance to go that way.

Fortunately I had been running PHP and MySQL with no problems for a few
years and they agreed to give it a go.

In over 2 years Moodle has never crashed but the Windows 2000 Server, well
that is another story :-)

Regards

Oliver Murray

Web Developer

Westbourne Grammar School

www.westbournegrammar.com <http://www.westbournegrammar.com> 

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From: ARNOTT Suzanne [mailto:SA at emc.vic.edu.au] 
Sent: Monday, 24 April 2006 3:17 PM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Moodle] moodle vs sharepoint?

Thanks Robyn and Stephen,

your thoughts are where mine were.... just good to have that back up :)

cheers

Suz

Suzanne Arnott
Elisabeth Murdoch College
Photography and Multimedia Coordinator
Assistant Manager, Learning Technologies

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From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Stephen Digby
Sent: Monday, 24 April 2006 3:07 PM
To: 'The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List'
Cc: Burdan, James/ Ellie
Subject: RE: [Moodle] moodle vs sharepoint?

Don't know sharepoint, but suggets you ask if Sharepoint can match:

- free to everyone in the world i.e. we add strength to an Australian
originated and world wide renowned open source cf a private costly locked up
system.

- built in (rather than tweaked work-arounds !) to allow teachers to

   - easily enrol students in courses and group them (without intervention
of tech staff)

   -  offer files to them (shoeprint does this well)

   -  collect their work (can share point easily allow submission of work,
keep it secure against others, alert you by email or online notice when it
is submitted, display a list of who has and has not submitted etc)

  - display assessment/ feedback comments (overall and inline with their
work) & grades securely and individually to students on individual work and
across a whole course

- offer built in features like the

     - wiki and glossary that automatically link all occurrences of your
course keywords throughout your course

     - questionnaire which allows easy creation (and analysis of results) on
a wide variety of question types

     -

These are just my favourites....

- I think share point does mainly the discussion groups and file storage and
access.

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Cheltenham Secondary College www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au Ph: 613 955 55 955  Fx:
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From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of ARNOTT Suzanne
Sent: Monday, 24 April 2006 2:56 PM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: [Moodle] moodle vs sharepoint?

Hi all,

thank you so much for the support so far, 

My technician is trying to steer me towords using Sharepoint...

not having used either it sort of leaves me at his mercy a bit... I have
read through some of the moodle forums on comapring the two programs, and
their seems to be a definite slant towards moodle being the preferred option
(even schools using sharepoint have integrated moodle into the system, as
the collaborative tasks work much better with a moodle environment.)

Personally I love the networking that is going on here, and see that as a
huge bonus to going moodle anyway...

I guess I'm just looking for some specifics I can use to argue the case.

cheers

Suz

Suzanne Arnott
Elisabeth Murdoch College
Photography and Multimedia Coordinator
Assistant Manager, Learning Technologies

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