Posted by GauravB-dupe on September 10, 2013 at 4:11pm
I'm looking to build a combined Drupal / LMS, but the LMS needs to provide functionality for online training and also exams that people can receive certifications for. There may also be an element of online payment. Anyone have advice to share on what LMS would best fit these needs?
Thank you in advance.
Gaurav
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We do all of that using
We do all of that using Drupal only. Drupal let you build quite a powerful LMS by yourself. :)
Agree...
I agree with @fuzzy76! Of course this is a Drupal thread so that shouldn't be a surprise.
I have built an LMS using strictly in Drupal using modules such as invite, quiz, organic groups, entityreference / entityreference prepopulate and of course views and panels. Add commerce for your on-line payment requirements and you are set - as long as you can put it all together with some glue code.
The key benefit of this solution, as with most open source solutions is control - you have total control over the features and functionality of your LMS. When I was teaching a Math course at the University they asked me to migrate the online course content from Blackboard v.old to Coursesites. In doing so I learned that the math equation editing capability was broken, and Coursesites support informed me that it would be fixed "maybe" in 4 months - which was 1 month after my course was completed. This issue has since been resolved, but at the time it left me in a difficult situation.
And of course, the savings in licensing costs can be significant over time.
How to build an LMS for staff only
I would like to build an LMS for staff which include courses, quiz, and certifications.
I have my site up, installed course module and other related modules. But I still don't know how to start to build the first course. is there any instructions?
Thanks so much for your help.
''Opigno'' : New E-learning Platform
A new Drupal-based LMS is now available.
It's called Opigno, and is packages as a Drupal distribution.
It has been designed to be very easy to use, and evolutive (through an app store).
For more details you can have a look at: www.opigno.org
Every comments or suggestions to improve it are welcome !
Moodle Drupal mash ups seem
Moodle Drupal mash ups seem popular.
From what I've seen the last couple years, Drupal kills moodle / others in customization and content centric design patterns for a course (where LMSs are much more sandboxy / folder structure based). Drupal has quiz, forum, polling, interactive stuff out the wazoo, and lots of crazy developers like me contributing everything back for education :).
One area I think it's weak in is student information system and course information logistics. I'm working on that here https://drupal.org/project/cis but it's admittedly early on in the life cycle where as systems like Moodle are tested in that area. Also I haven't found a gradebook in Drupal that I liked (yet) or TinCan / analytics tracking that's fine-grained. I have a lot of projects seeking to bring these types of functionality to the ELMS ecosystem but again, it's a matter of developer scale.
Moodle has lots of people working in education but is weak on information architecture. Drupal is typically the reverse, weak in learning theory but strong in IA.
Ex Uno Plures
http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/
Adrenna
Is anyone familiar with Adrenna, the Drupal-based LMS that was recently purchased by the man who started Blackboard?