Product sheet: Ganesha

LMS name: Ganesha
Brief description: 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.
Official project page: http://www.anemalab.org/ganesha/
Evaluation date: 2005/03
Evaluation sheet: Ganesha evaluation sheet

Product sheet
LMS name	Ganesha
Development team	Anéma Formation, which is a company focusing on training and development of e-learning tools. Some volunteers contribute too.
Support team	The development team provides an effective support by forums. It is also possible to access a wide range of support/training/maintenance from Anéma Formation
Version number of the release evaluated	3.0
Technology used	PHP, Apache, MySQL
Operating Systems supported	All OSs on which it's possible to install PHP, Apache and My SQL (e.g. Windows, Linux, UNix, etc)
Database/Software requirements	MySQL 3.22.27 or higher.
License type	GPL
E-Learning standards supported	SCORM, AICC
Languages	French, English, Spanish, Protuguese, Arab
Main features	Wide range of collaborative tools and well thought pedagogical pedagogy
Is a course content management included?	Course management is included and allows the upload of materials created offline.
Pros	Important care about standards Various addons to implement support for a lot of authoring tools Flexible user management tool Multilingual documentation Active community
Cons	No builtin authoring tool Not very intuitive interface
Main installations in the world	There are many installations all over the world: the full list is on the web site : http://www.anemalab.org/ganesha/utilisations.htm
Notes	Nice tool, with a strong and serious underlying pedagogical reflection.
Link to demo version	http://www.anemalab.org/ganesha/demo.htm

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