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Course Management Systems
Course Management Systems are designed to be comprehensive web hubs for teachers to organize their courses around. They offer numerous tools from other web applications in a single school-oriented platform. Course Management Systems are used by a tremendous number of colleges and universities and an increasing number of K-12 schools are beginning to understand their power for enabling communication and content delivery between the teacher, students, and parents. A single firm currently dominates the commercial CMS market and pricing is prohibitive for K-12 institutions. Open Source CMS is a free alternative that easily rivals this commercial software.
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| Moodle |
| Currently supporting a registered user community of over 200,000 in 175 countries, Moodle is the most widely used and mature Open Source CMS programs. It features a tremendous feature set that includes forums, calendars, wikis, blogs, quizzes, glossaries, surveys, chats and countless others. The flexibility of Moodle is even greater with an extensive set of third party community add-ons that is constantly expanding. Moodle can be installed for a single course or it can scale to support thousands of users. Even if you cannot install Moodle on your own web server, there are numerous inexpensive or free hosting services that can do it for you. For example, if you are a Tennessee K-12 school, The University of Tennessee will host a free Moodle site for you. |
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| Sakai |
| Sakai is a full-featured CMS that focuses on collaboration and portfolio creation. Like Moodle, it supports a broad feature set and is highly configurable. Although Sakai is ideal for K-12 and university classroom use, the project is being promoted as a broader training and collaboration platform. |
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