Today we released a new version of ELMS which starts to branch it out into our vision of 3 separate distributions for education. https://elms.psu.edu/ Has all the details and has been completely redone around our new UI for the system. Many of the issues from Alpha 3 have been resolved but this is a fundamentally different system in just about every way. The focus is still on course content but the instructional designer administrative layer helps set the stage that other educational distributions can be built off of. I fully recognize that we are solving 1 problem with this system and that's Instructional Content management (course website building). This is part of the ELMS philosophy which is to separate content from the LMS and break up types of systems into focused, separate products.
Part of the vision of ELMS is to have our own implementations different from the product created as part of this distribution. In this way, features will likely be utilized to make types of functionality portable across elms distributions. This is the course content component, next will come an asset management component for this to tie into, and last will be a collaborative learning environment (similar to the Open Studio if you follow our work).
Download -- https://drupal.psu.edu/content/216
Demo -- https://elms.psu.edu/node/1727
Tutorial Videos -- https://elms.psu.edu/promo/tutorialvideos
While this project is still marked alpha it is very stable from my testing and is built on a stack similar to Open Atrium and Drupal Commons (Features / Spaces / Context / Strongarm / OG). I'll be trying to do some more ELMS Botany videos to show how different aspects of the ICMS work now that much of the workflows have been stabilized.
Drupal Camp PSU tomorrow, video should be made available after the event for those outside of the PSU network :)
As always, any and all feedback is much appreciated.
Comments
Looks great
This looks like just what I need for my Drupal site. I was wondering...will it be compatible once it is out of the Alpha state with D7?
This is Drupal 6 and
This is Drupal 6 and currently it should be reaching a beta phase in the next few months (in D6 still). A lot of the core projects in this aren't at full releases yet for D7 and many don't even have a D7 release (Spaces and Purl being two notables). It will be ported to D7 at some point in time but we're looking to build something highly stable today. I'm keeping things in Alpha at the moment because of lack of an upgrade path between versions (intentionally as IA keeps shifting) and usability testing that needs to be done. Code wise it is very stable as is D6 in most areas.
Ex Uno Plures
http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/
D6 still worth it...
TNDave--
Drupal 6 remains a strong core for building distros. OpenAtrium and Drupal Commons are two of the biggest and strongest Drupal distros, both in Drupal 6.
I agree it would be nice to "eventually" move to Drupal 7, but for now big, complex, multi-module projects are best done with Drupal 6.
Re: D6 still worth it
Sorry for the delayed reply, been very busy. This is definitely what I need for my site so I guess I will downgrade to D6 so I can use it. Thanks for the help :-)