Elearning applications
From SME Guide
CLAROLINE
http://www.claroline.net/ FLOSSMETRICS link: http://melquiades.flossmetrics.org/projects/claroline FLOSSMETRICS quality evaluation: http://melquiades.flossmetrics.org/projects/claroline/quality
Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web. Translated into 35 languages, Claroline has a large worldwide users’ and developers’ community. Released under Open Source license, the Claroline platform allows hundreds of organizations from 86 countries to create and administer courses and collaboration spaces online. Each course space provides a list of tools enabling the teacher to :
- Publish documents in any format (text, PDF, HTML, video...)
- Administer public and private forums
- Develop learning paths
- Create groups of students
- Prepare online exercises
- Manage an agenda with tasks and deadlines
- Publish announcements (also by e-mail)
- Propose assignments to be handed in online
- See the statistics of the users activity
- Use the wiki to write collaborative documents
ILIAS
http://www.ilias.de/index.html FLOSSMETRICS link: http://melquiades.flossmetrics.org/projects/ilias
ILIAS is a powerful web-based learning management system that allows you to easily manage learning resources in an integrated system.
- Individual Personal Desktop
- Course Management
- Group Management
- Repository with Role Based Access Control
- Learning Content (XML, SCORM, AICC)
- Standards Compliance (LOM, SCORM 1.2, IMS-QTI, AICC)
- SCORM 1.2 RTE Level 3 Certified
- Learning Progress Management
- Test & Assessment
- Survey
- Chat
- Forums
- Exercises
- RSS Support
- Podasting
- Google Maps Support
- Authentication (LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, Radius, SOAP)
- Web Service Interface (SOAP)
iTALC
http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php
iTALC is a use- and powerful didactic tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP/Vista and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments! iTALC has been designed for usage in school. Therefore it offers a lot of possibilities to teachers, such as:
- see what's going on in computer-labs by using overview mode and make snapshots
- remote-control computers to support and help other people
- show a demo (either in fullscreen or in a window) - the teacher's screen is shown on all student's computers in realtime
- lock workstations for moving undivided attention to teacher
- send text-messages to students
- powering on/off and rebooting computers per remote
- remote logon and logoff and remote execution of arbitrary commands/scripts
- home-schooling - iTALC's network-technology is not restricted to a subnet and therefore students at home can join lessons via VPN-connections just by installing iTALC client
Mahara
Established in 2006, Mahara is the result of a collaborative venture funded by New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commission's e-learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF), involving Massey University, Auckland University of Technology, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and Victoria University of Wellington. Mahara is a fully featured open source electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online communities. Mahara is designed to provide users with the tools to demonstrate their life-long learning, skills and development over time to selected audiences.
MOODLE
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.
Sakai
Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration. Sakai is a free and open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community. Sakai's development model is called "Community Source" because many of the developers creating Sakai are drawn from the "community" of organizations that have adopted and are using Sakai. Among the features:
- Announcements Tool
- Assignments Tool
- Chat Room Tool
- Discussion Tool
- Drop Box Tool
- Email Archive Tool
- Gradebook
- Help Tool
- Membership Tool
- Message Center
- My Workspace
- News Tool
- Permissions and Roles
- Post'Em
- Preferences
- Resources Tool
- Schedule Tool
- Site Info Tool
- Syllabus Tool
- Synoptic Tool
- Tests and Quizzes
- WebDAV
- Wiki Tool
- Website Information Tool Website Setup Tool
