LMS Meetings and Notes

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07-04-23 Swiss EduTech Killer Criteria

Evaluation of Open Source Course Platforms

The following products were considered for an evaluation of open source learning management systems. A detailed evaluation was done only for those products that passed all killer criteria listed below.

Killer criteria :

• support for multiple languages (esp. English, French, German, Italian)
• server runs on multiple operating systems
• integrated/homogeneous learning environment (not just a collection of tools)
• active development, with at least 2 full time developers
• active community
• basic e-learing tools are available
• basic documentation is available

Source : http://www.edutech.ch/lms/ev3/opensource_lms_longlist.php

07-04-17 A Discussion about Basecamp

Sections of BaseCamp Software and their uses for our LMS Project Work:

Overview: gives a general overview of the project itself and shows all of the to-dos, messages, writeboard, etc.

Messages: use this area of base camp to post messages to the group, like a discussion board.

To Do: this is an area to assign action items, tasks to individuals on the team, incl. yourself.

Milestones: scheduled meeting times, focus group sessions, go live dates, training dates.

Writeboards: place to make lists and topics for group review, comments, like a wiki interface. it saves previous versions and edits.

Chat: not using yet.

Time: not using...tracking project time in Harvest.

Files: place to upload project related files. For example: meeting notes, meeting agendas, documents of interest to the group.

draft by holly parker and steve cavrak 4/17/07