This is the first ever FOSSwire post with video! Be sure to click Watch Video in the metabar above, or click here to view the video accompanying this post.
VLEs are all the rage in education right now. A VLE is supposedly a ‘virtual learning environment’, a software system designed to take teaching online and offer services like being able to download assignments, track progress and so forth.
Most VLE systems are web-based, and one such open source web-based VLE is Moodle. It is written in PHP and supports many different database types (although the most popular are MySQL and PostgreSQL). This means it’s perfect for running on your LAMP server, or of course it should run fine anywhere where PHP and a supported database solution do.
After installation (which you can see in the accompanying video for this post) and briefly setting up your Moodle installation, you can begin setting up courses and using the main features of Moodle.
While I haven’t delved very deeply into all of the features of this open source VLE system, it seems very comprehensive and easy to use and is a formidable competitor to rivalling VLE systems.
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Lee wrote:
I’ve worked with moodle before, and it is a very nice system, felling very complete. Although one issue I had with it was upgrading from a previous version, it just wouldn’t do it.
Although as for authentication options LDAP, POP3 are just some, are ideal in educational environments where Windows Server + Active directory is in use.
# Posted on 31-Oct-07 at 9:45 am
Pieter wrote:
How easy would be an installer that just did it all for you?
Imagine it installing and configuring Apache, Php and MySQL. And then it nicely configures Moodle on top of these. All of this just in a few clicks..It’s possible!
What you need to do is just vote for the Moodle project as a future installation stack on http://www.bitnami.com/polls.
# Posted on 01-Nov-07 at 2:17 am
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