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  • Dominik Lukes October 5, 2011 at 4:19pm

    It really depends on what kind of things you're trying to do? E-learning is many things. What you describe sounds like you could just do with something like Mahara or Drupal (or even just Wordpress with Buddypress) - that allows you to set up areas for groups to share materials. Moodle may be overkill - it comes with a lot of class management baggage but is actually not that great for flexible sharing of materials. I'm in the middle of a project that uses Mahara for document sharing with different groups of students.

    So my recommendation would be Mahara for student engagement and sharing of content. If you want to add things like quizzes and are not worried about portfolios, then Drupal is a good solution. You only need Moodle if you want to do complex grading of many activities with lots of student management across classes. For simple sharing of content and a place for discussion, it is a huge overkill - plus its quite dated when it comes to usability. 

     

    The other Open Sources options to look at are Sakai and Instructure (which I presonally like best of the VLEs) but they require a higher level hosting platform and have smaller communities in the UK.

     

  • John Bruce October 3, 2011 at 1:46pm
    Anne, I think the market take up speaks for itself. Moodle is now the market leader in Open Source learning management and delivery. Joomla does a different job anyway but is not 'cutting it'.

    Regards

    John
  • Mark Berthelemy October 3, 2011 at 11:51am

    Hi Anne,

    As Muhammed says, Moodle looks like the best solution for you. But, if your requirement is simply to provide access to documents (and not SCORM-packaged content), you could instead look at Wordpress. It's a lot easier to use than Joomla, but just as flexible.

    Much depends on how private you want the site to be. Many tutors are using Wordpress as an open platform. Putting a login on it is possible, but means more work than on a Moodle site, which is designed around controlling access.

    I've worked with both systems for years now. Give me a call if you want a chat about the options: 07799 408026

    Mark

  • Mark Berthelemy October 3, 2011 at 11:12am

    Hi Anne,

    Moodle and Joomla are two completely different tools, and so it's really a case of working out which one would be the best fit for what you're wanting to achieve.

    Can you give us some more detail on what you're trying to do?

    Thanks,

    Mark

    • Adam Laird > Mark Berthelemy October 5, 2011 at 3:33pm

      I'm pretty sure i saw somewhere a project linking joomla and moodle together perhaps a search of the moodle forums would be in order

       

      edit: some info here joomdle i think its called to give you additional functianilty  http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/living/education-a-culture/...

    • anne nolan > Mark Berthelemy October 3, 2011 at 11:18am

      Hi

      Primarily we are looking at it to give our students access to e-learning and support them with access to class notes. With the use of blogs etc.

      Thanks

    • Richard Goodman > anne nolan October 3, 2011 at 12:12pm
      Moodle sounds like the thing to meet your needs!
    • Muhammad Ajmal > anne nolan October 3, 2011 at 11:37am

      Hi Anne,

       

      With your above requirements, you difinetely need an Learning Management System i.e. Moodle. Moodle has many features to support students e.g. Group discussion boards, assignment submissions, class notes and slides upload on the system to access by students, blogs and wikis for collaborative work streams, instant messaging, email system, 1 to 1 coaching using chat system.You can also incorporate web conferecing software like WizIQ and others to create more interactivity.

       

      I had a good experience of this system and found Moodle is the most used by the universities and educational institutes.

       

      I hope this will help.

       

      Regards

       

      Muhammad

    • Mark Berthelemy > anne nolan October 3, 2011 at 11:33am

      Hi Anne,

       

      In which case, my first instinct would be to say that Moodle is your best fit out of the two. Why did you think Joomla was a possibility?

       

      Mark

    • anne nolan > Mark Berthelemy October 3, 2011 at 11:43am

      Hello Mark

      Before I took up my current position my predecessor started on the road of Moodle, we are 50% there but before I champion it and as much as I like Moodle, I want to look at all the other options out there.

      Anne

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