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Catalogue of OS LMS
Catalogue of the OS LMS products evaluated by JOIN
EVALUATED PRODUCTS
PRODUCTS OUT OF JOIN'S EVALUATION
PRODUCTS CURRENTLY BEING EVALUATED
- .LRN
.LRN provides a complete portal framework along with out-of-the-box capability for course management, online communities, content management, and learning management. Originally developed at MIT (Massachusets Institute of Technology, USA), .LRN today is used by nearly half a million users in more than eighteen countries worldwide. The .LRN application suite is backed by a thriving user community and by the .LRN Consortium. Consortium member institutions work together to support each other's deployments and to accelerate and expand the adoption and development of .LRN. To this end, the Consortium ensures software quality by certifying components as .LRN-compliant, coordinates software development plans, and maintains ties with OpenACS, the open source toolkit which forms the basis for .LRN
- .LRN 2.1.1
.LRN product sheet
Product not evaluated by JOIN: version 2.1.1 does not comply the LMS minimum definition regarding assesment functionalities (assesment modules are not .LRN certified)
- ATutor
This project started in 2002 with the collaboration of the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) of the Toronto Universiy. This centre is an internationally recognized leader in the development of technologies and standards that ensure people with disabilities to have access to elearning opportunities, and this mission has deeply influenced the platform development. In the development particular attenction was payed to accessibility: ATutor is the only LMS with W3C WCAG 1.0 accessibility specifications at AA+ level.
- ATutor 1.4.2
ATutor product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
- ATutor 1.5.0
ATutor product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
- Bazaar
Bazaar is developed by Athabasca University, the Canada's top open university. It started life as a plain web board conferencing system but has rapidly evolved into an integrated information system. Bazaar is a very flexible and customizable system and can be used to deliver courseware, portals or any of the other myriad types of web based projects.
- Bazaar 7.1.0
Bazaar product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet - Claroline
Claroline is one of the most used LMS in the world. A lot of Universities appreciate the collaborative learning environment that allows teachers or education institutions to create and administer courses through the web. The tools provided by the system (group management, forums, document repositories, calendar, chat, assignment areas, links, user profile administration, and many others) give to the users all the possibilities to realize whatever scenario.
- Claroline 1.5.1
Claroline product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
- Claroline 1.7.0
Claroline product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
- Dokeos
The project started from a previous version of Claroline and has just become a product on its own. The goal is to help the trainer to create pedagogical content, to structure activities in learning paths, to interact with students and to follow their evolution through a reporting system. It quickly reaches a wide and common agreement.
- Dokeos 1.5.5
Dokeos product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
- Dokeos 1.6.0
Dokeos product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
- Eledge
This software, developped by the University of Utah, is designed to provide the framework for creating a web site for online instruction, including student registration, authentication, content creation, quizzes, exams, homework graders, report uploads, instructor gradebook, class calendar, and online help.
- Eledge 3.1.0
Eledge product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet - Ganesha
Ganesha allows a trainer or a training organization to provide one or several trainee groups with one or several learning modules, with course contents, addons, quizz and assessment tests. It also offers collaborative tools (webmail, forum, chat, document sharing) and tools for online tutoring. It's free software (GPL license), published by the Anéma formation company.
- Ganesha 2.1
Ganesha product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet - Ilias
A tool that offers a lot of functionalities for all the levels of actors involved in. With Ilias it's possible to set up different scenarios and even complex environments for all the users.
- Ilias 3.2.0
ILIAS product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
- Ilias 3.4.3
ILIAS product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
- Moodle
Moodle is one of the most popular LMS and is currently living an explosive expansion all over the world. Its users and developers community is very large and enthusiastic about the system. One of the main characteristics of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy.
- Moodle 1.4.1
Moodle product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet - OpenUSS LMS
OpenUSS is a database centered administration system with focus on: communication and publication.FSL is a J2SE and GPL-based Learning Content System (LCS). FSL has the purpose to let you create and execute your multimedia contents.
- Open USS LMS 1.0
OpenUSS LMS product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet - Sakai
Sakai is an ambitious two years project beginning in 2004 founded by the University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sakai partners are joining forces to integrate and synchronize their considerable educational software into a pre-integrated collection of open source tools. The products of this project will include an Enterprise Services-based Portal, a complete Course Management System with sophisticated assessment tools, a Research Support Collaboration System, a Workflow Engine, and a Technology Portability Profile (TPP) as a clear standard for writing future tools that can extend this core set of educational applications.
- Sakai 1.0
Sakai product sheet
Product not evaluated by JOIN: version 1.0 does not comply the LMS minimum definition regarding assesment functionalities
- Spaghetti Learning
SpaghettiLearning is a tool born and developed in Italy. The interface is quite different from the most popular tools and looks interesting and easy to use. The SCORM 1.2 support is one of most important new feature of the new version. It's a good platform for small/medium environments.
- SpaghettiLearning 1.2
Spaghetti Learning product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
- DoceboLMS
We might say that DoceboLMS is born from a SpaghettiLearning's rib, but is more than that: it's almost a complete rewrite of the code of SpaghettiLearning, a product that, even has had a short life, has been quite new respect to the rest of the LMSs Open Source. Many features of the former product are still available in DoceboLMS (for example the SCORM 1.2 conformance) but also have been developed new facilities and a new interface. We can say that is a product comparable with the most famous LMS.
- DoceboLMS 2.0.4
DoceboLMS product sheet
JOIN evaluation sheet
PRODUCTS OUT OF JOIN'S EVALUATION
- EduPlone
Product not evaluated by JOIN: does not offer evaluation mechanisms and thus does not comply the LMS minimum definition
EduPlone official site - CHEF
CHEF is a development from the University of Michigan with no future continuity. Sakai is the upgrade path for CHEF.
Product not evaluated by JOIN as the project has no future continuity
CHEF official site - CourseWork
CourseWork is a open source course management system based at Stanford University and developed by Academic Computing in the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources. CourseWork is designed to provide an open, modular framework for learning objects. It uses OKI APIs whenever possible. It is written primarily in Java, using the Java servlet technology. Stanford's implementation of CourseWork runs with the Apache web server, using TomCat 4.0 for the Java servlet server. DTL (Display Template Language), developed at Stanford, is used to create the presentation displays. The database back end is Oracle. CourseWork has been run on both Sun Solaris and Linux. Other institutions have ported CourseWork to work with PostgreSQL, and CourseWork team expects that it is compatible with other SQL implementations as well.
Product not evaluated by JOIN as it needs Oracle propietary database
CourseWork official site
PRODUCTS CURRENTLY BEING EVALUATED
- AnaXagora
- Bodington
- Campus Abierto de Ingenia
- Didactor
- Interact
- LON-CAPA
- Manhattan
- metacoon
- open EDU
- olat
- Savoie
- uni open platform
Last modified
2005-10-26 01:21 PM
