Content management system

The following article contains information on various course management systems (CMS).

Course Management Systems

WordPress

Features:

               - Full standards compliance

       	- allows you to manage non-blog content easily

- password protected posts

Modules:
- podcasting
- plugin for different forum software (SMF, Vanilla, bbPress, phpBB, PunBB)

Skins: Yes

MediaWiki

Features:
- the wiki software Wikipedia is built off of
- easy for users to edit pages

Skins: Yes

PhpBB

Features:
- opensource bulletin board - Skins: Yes

Drupal

Features:
- collaborative book (create a "book" and let other contribute to it)
- personalization
- all content is fully indexed and searchable
- threaded comments
- version control
- blogger API support -- update using different tools

Modules: - abuse: allows users to flag nodes and comments
- accessibility: creates web sites specifically made for mobile browsers from one code base.
- Lots of different ones.

Skins: Yes

Joomla

Features: - Modules:
- dynamic form builders
- image and media galleries
- forums and chat
- calendars

Skins: Yes

Elgg

Elgg: Features: - blogging - social networking - podcast - user profiles - rss support - create communities - collaborative community blogs - publish to blog Modules:

Skins: Yes

Moodle

From Moodle.org: Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.

Features: Authentication - Information pertaining to authentication can be found here: [1] In summary, moodle's authentication includes: * Manual accounts * No login * Email-based self-registration * CAS server (SSO) * External database * FirstClass server * IMAP server * LDAP server * Moodle Network authentication * NNTP server * No authentication * PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) * POP3 server * RADIUS server * Shibboleth * NTLM/Integrated Authentication (3rd party plugin)