[Technical] Content Management Systems

[Donna Benjamin]

I heard there's some work being done connecting Drupal (content
management system) with Moodle (learning management system) using single
sign on, and the same team is also developing digital portfolio software
called Mahara

http://www.drupal.org/
https://eduforge.org/projects/mahara/

http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/index.php/2007/03/21/innovation-for-education-oss-and-infrastructure-for-nzs-education-system/

Moodle is pretty impressive - and has just won a heap of awards.
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=68408

You can set it up inside the school for free if you have the time and
expertise, or you can engage a moodle partner...
http://moodle.com/partners/list/

Or any one of a number of local companies doing moodle support.

or buy a moodle book
http://www.packtpub.com/moodle/book

but better yet - there's already a local moodle user group using
edulists - moodle at edulists.com.au - Peer support is unbeatable.

"This year, I have NO, repeat NO students failing. NONE AT ALL! ... I
have not changed how I teach. As a matter of fact I have covered more
material than I ever have. I have not been grading less stringently.
Nothing has changed except that I have provided an opportunity for
students to practice and review on Moodle."  Mary Kaplan, French Teacher

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 22:26 +1000, Stephen Digby wrote:
> No email address supplied.
> Moodle - free, excellent built in tools for education (grading, submission, choices, surveys, wikis etc)
> Blackboard - expensive, for-profit, anti-open source company ((but happy to build in access to open source
> systems where it doesn't ooffer functionality e.g.), excellent built in tools for education 
> eWorkspace - sounds good, don't know much about it, 
> SharePoint - MS corporate ducument retreival and discussion host.  Few tools oriented specifically for
> educational needs.
> 
> Suggest moodle is the best bet esp if its development pace continues.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Judy Colville
> Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2007 3:45 PM
> To: tech at edulists.com.au
> Subject: [Technical] Content Management Systems
> 
> At present, as we are with the CEO, we have been using SINA and My Classes plus a shared directory for student
> files.  We are looking at changing to a more sophisticated intranet system.  We have heard of Moodle, E
> Workspace, Sharepoint, Blackboard and Scholaris and are wondering what people are using and how they find it.
> Please email me direct.  Thank You.
> 
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