[Hidden-tech] Learning Management Systems for small businesses

[Paul Stallman]

I can second the vote for Moodle, it's open source and easy to deploy.  The
biggest thing is understanding how you want to teach and deploy your
lessons.  If you grasp the teaching part, the system is very powerful and
you can't beat free.  Just as an aside if you are using a host like GoDaddy
they actually have a ready to go deployment for Moodle in their apps.  Just
login to your hosting system and see if they provide it through Fantastico
or in GoDaddy's case the Hosting Connection.
Paul Stallman
Managing Director
paul at alias-solutions.com
413.364.6147
alias|solutions
www.alias-solutions.com




On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Maria Korolov (Trombly) <
maria at tromblyltd.com> wrote:

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> One of the most popular systems out there with school is the opensource
> Moodle platform (which also comes with its Second Life/OpenSim connector:
> Sloodle).
>
> http://moodle.org/
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> -- Maria
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> Maria Korolov
> Technology columnist, Securities Industry News
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> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Bruce Hooke <bghooke at att.net> wrote:
>
>>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
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>>  Hello All,
>>
>> I have a customer who wants to be able to offer some online training
>> courses and we are looking for a simple, clean, inexpensive learning
>> management system to use. The courseware will probably be a mix of HTML and
>> Flash videos. What we need is a place to house the content and control who
>> has access to it, and track who has taken a given course. It would be nice
>> but not essential to be able to include quizzes and track how someone did on
>> the quizzes. We would prefer not to have lots of "bells and whistles" (or at
>> least have these features be hideable), especially the sorts of extra
>> features that are included in systems targeted at primary school users,
>> since the students in our case would be professionals.
>>
>> We could, of course, develop our own system but before going down that
>> road it seems to make sense to make sure there is not something off the
>> shelf that would do the job.
>>
>> The customer does have a budget to pay for a system but cannot spend
>> thousands on one of the higher-end corporate-grade systems.
>>
>> The customer's website is hosted on a shared server so any solution either
>> needs to be compatible with a typical shared Linux server setup or needs to
>> be a solution that runs from the vendor's servers.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bruce Hooke
>>
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