Difference between revisions of "Content management system"
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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.''<br> | 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.''<br> | ||
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| − | + | Moodle can be installed on any computer that can run PHP, and can support a SQL type database (for example MySQL). It can be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux (for example Red Hat or Debian GNU). | |
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**RADIUS server<br> | **RADIUS server<br> | ||
**Shibboleth<br> | **Shibboleth<br> | ||
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===WordPress=== | ===WordPress=== | ||
Revision as of 15:57, 15 January 2008
The following article contains information on various course management systems (CMS).
Course Management Systems
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.
Key Notes:
Moodle can be installed on any computer that can run PHP, and can support a SQL type database (for example MySQL). It can be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux (for example Red Hat or Debian GNU).
- Authentication Features - More information pertaining to authentication can be found here: [1]
- 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)
- Manual accounts
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
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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:
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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