Several years in the making, a distribution of ELMS is finally ready for feedback and public consumption. It's still an alpha so I wouldn't use it in a production environment but it's a good look at the direction of the ELMS distribution. ELMS has grown a lot since it was first brought up here but it's goal has remained the same: Lower the cost of entry for the creation of course materials. The philosophy being that if we can remove the technical barrier for educators and instructional designers in creating learning materials, they will have more time to create those materials and less time fighting with the tech!
Here's a video walk-through of some of what you get: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5SUyqoSSAY
And here's where to get it: https://elms.psu.edu/page/how-do-i-get-it
Some high-level features:
Fine tuned module selection for great usability out of the box
Up and running in under 5 minutes
Comes with the award winning Open Studio installed and ready to go!
This is alpha, please treat it that way though feedback positive and negative is much appreciated! Comes with admin and test student account (I'd change the password on this if you're putting it out on the web).
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encryption issues
downloaded and tried to insrtall but hit issues as could not remove encryption from the site folder Folders show green in win 7
But the youtube video loks good so well done
you might need to clear your
you might need to clear your cache but try downloading it again. I rebuilt the sites folder from a stock drupal 6.19 downloaded folder instead of one that got messed with by my mac so there shouldn't be any permission issues with it (sorry about that).
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Have downloaded again to a
Have downloaded again to a different win7 pc > unzipped - was asked if I want to unzip WITHOUT encryption > yes (took about 10 mins) > two errors as I installed (memory and 60 secs exceeded) resolved by adding the following
***memory problems - try adding ini_set('memory_limit', '96M'); to settings.php
*** time out problems add/alter to php.ini or .htaccess
php_value max_execution_time 0
But now working well
Thanks!
Thanks for following up with it as well as posting those resolutions to potential problems. I'll make sure to add that comment into the original posting about it
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Excellent work on the alpha -
Excellent work on the alpha - well done. My apols if this is the wrong place to ask, but I am trying to understand if ELMS is designed for this scenario:
Teacher of Subject English Language, sets an assignment (lesson?) "Write a paragraph about Shakespeare". Students Tom, Dick and Harry log in seperatly > write Paragraphs (child pages of assignment?) and the teacher then reads, maybe adds comments and also adds a grade (version of 5 stars)
Open Studio Concept
ELMS is really just a generic collection of tools for the creation and management of course materials. The Open Studio that you're referring to for assignments is geared as follows:
There is a private submission / rubric / personalized feedback component to this currently called the Assignment Studio (and Rubric module) but it's going to be kept out of the ELMS distribution until those two projects are rebranded and re-envisioned. Currently we are developing an AIR app that will play nicely with works submitted through a Drupal site so an instructor can grade and give feedback from a local environment.
ELMS is great for augmenting a traditional face-to-face classroom even though PSU primarily uses it as part of totally online course creation.
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Very Cool
Looks interesting, I plan to take a peek under the hood soon. :P
Robert Foley Jr
Solutions Architect
http://www.robertfoleyjr.com
Cool!
Cool! Any questions or ideas please don't hesitate to throw 'em my way!
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Module list?
Looks interesting indeed.
Do you have a list of modules used in ELMS?
It seems like the ClosedQuestion / Proteus / LinearCase modules would fit with the ELMS paradigm:
http://wmmrc.wur.nl/drupal-modules/closedquestion/about
http://groups.drupal.org/node/22957
I'd be up for discussing
I'd be up for discussing potential ways of getting it into the package. Another thought I had is if things are still XML based I recently posted how to use views to automatically pipe data from nodes into XML based Views for use in the JWplayer module.
You could use a similar technique to start (quickly) automating creation of closedQuestion questions -- https://elearning.psu.edu/elearning/using-drupal-generate-jwplayer-frien...
Quiz is in the queue of things for me to take a look at and integrate into the ELMS distro. I vet things pretty heavily to make sure they're integrated in a way that maximizes usability in the platform so it'll get in there, just not sure when. Would love to add alternatives or create Features that enable alternatives and expand the base package.
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http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/