You can backup all the content that you add under edu20, so you don’t to worry about losing anything.

There are several videos on the home page of the site that show what the site does. We’re going to add more up-front information.

Your last comment, “all fluff, nothing to see”, is silly. Our site has a comparable feature set to Moodle and Blackboard, is free, and is much easier to use.

Hope this helps,
Graham

Make the code available for download and install on a local server hosted by ME, MYSELF, AND I, and I’ll take a look at the app…

Finally, the website is very cutesy – but low on actual information. What if I don’t want to signup to find out more info? Screenshots anyone? Demo?

Final analysis: All Fluff, nothing to see. Move along.

So far this year, my class and I have sampled other CMS services which are open source and or free. Currently, we are on the Studeous system.

I’m sorry Vic, but thus far, we feel that there are some things which need improvement:

First, support from Studeous for free version subscribers seems lacking. For example, I’ve sent support questions via the site and not received any replies for some time.

Second, I’ve noticed that the process of assigning homework seems unnecessarily complex. For example, although the child has a calendar on their page, homework assignments are not automatically appearing (from what we can tell). I may doing it incorrectly, but without support I can’t solve it.

Finally, Studeous states quite clearly, that they prioritise paid “suite” customer service questions, which I find very disappointing.

I hope you will consider making changes to the site. We will be with Studeous until March, at which point we will be trialling another candidate site.

Kind Regards,
Teacherdoo

If you’re looking for a completely free learning management system (LMS), I also recommend you check out http://www.edu20.org. EDU 2.0 has more features that Studeous, is 100% free, and is available in 10 languages.

Cheers,
Graham

Sakai and moodle are fantastic products for higher education. However, they are still expensive to set up and maintain and they are not as easy to use as Studeous. Average teachers can get their classes set up on Studeous in a few minutes, whereas most teachers have no idea where to start with Sakai or Moodle (you’re probably the exception).

Studeous also targets k-12 more than higher ed, and we plan to roll out with a package that lets administrators get the admin controls for their school, allowing Studeous to completely replace any enterprise system for free. And we’re not expecting schools to switch from their current systems; we’re hoping that schools looking to have a system like this that don’t have one now will choose Studeous.

Vic Ramon
Studeous Co-Founder

Yeah… that would be so cool. I wonder if there are electronic boards that mirror contents to web. Once the data is online it can be easily transformed to RSS feed.

I *so* wish Blackboard had RSS. You have to go in and manually check that none of the classes have assigned homework. Ugh.