Saajan Verma asks:
I am a small web developer. I want make a website for school or college foe e-Learning. So, how can I make an e-Learning website using open source software ? What is the best content management software (CMS) for that purpose?
Browser: Chrome 19
System: Windows
Tagged: content management system, find software, open source, web design
System: Windows
Tagged: content management system, find software, open source, web design
8 Answers -
Susendeep Dutta
June 11, 2012Joomla is the best opensource software.
Makeuseof has a guide upon it -
http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/download-the-complete-beginners-guide-to-joomla
Its not appropriate for an e-learning site though, at all.
Check out moodle; http://moodle.org , its a powerful system for managing courses, classes, tests and students. I ran a few university courses on it, with listening tests and student blogs. Worked great.
What experience do you have with joomla, susendeep? Have you used it as a community site somewhere? I think it’s good for community or charity sites, but not a lot else.
June 11, 2012I thought that use of plugins with Joomla can be helpful to built e-learning sites.I apologize for inappropriate suggestion.
June 11, 2012but there is no free module or free components for that.
June 11, 2012Truefire_
June 11, 2012This is probably what you’re looking for: http://moodle.org/
Alinterko
June 11, 2012Moodle is good, but note that it is not a Content Management System. The solution is good to manage courses, tests and learners, but it has no features to manage your web site. For example you will never add a portfolio or books catalugue for sales without CMS.
Joomla CMS is a good choice to manage your web site. It is free and easily to extend. It has several light addons both commercial and non-commercial for e-Learning needs – http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/living/education-a-culture/lms
It is OK to use these add-ons for e-Learning clients with little budgeting.
If your client’s budget is higher and they are ready to pay for fully-functional SCORM compliant LMS featuring built-in authoring, live conferencing tools and advanced reporting options check JoomlaLMS – http://www.joomlalms.com/
It is Joomla native commercial solution. Meanwhile you can go totaly open source with it if your buy perpetial license.
It depends on you client requirements and budget.
patel madhav
June 12, 2012help me….how can i make a web site and own software???
venkatp16
June 25, 2012Moodle is best Open source. We have used it for loing time in our company
Roshin idi
June 25, 2012I would agree that Moodle is the best, but ATutor, ILIAS, OLAT are also good.
Sebastian
June 30, 2012I have created many websites using both wordpress and joomla and upto my knowledge joomla will be the apt CMS for creating a E-learning website. There are plenty of plugin and modules available you can make good use of it.
http://www.usjoomlaforce.com
Gian Singh
July 25, 2012One of my teachers who taught web development and Java programming used moodle.org