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Thankfully, there are better, free alternatives out there to either Angel or Blackboard. Sakai (http://sakaiproject.org/ http://sakaiproject.org/) has the more
by rcoder 17y ago
Thankfully, there are better, free alternatives out there to either Angel or Blackboard. Sakai (http://sakaiproject.org/ http://sakaiproject.org/) has the more substantial "big school" base, and looks like a good platform on which to build if you're okay with a Java app stack, and willing to put up with some "design by committee" architectural choices. Moodle (http://moodle.org/ http://moodle.org/) on the other hand is much easier to get up and running quickly (it's just a standard PHP app), and has an active community of extension, theme, and patch contributors, albeit at the cost of some of the typical PHP framework's tendency to grow warts.
- ph0rque 17y agoWe evaluated all of these, as well as some less-known (free) learning management systems (LMSs), and they are all quite painful and unintuitive to use, compared to current web apps.
- rcoder 17y agoI would honestly say that they're all pretty equally terrible, across both the paid and free/OSS segments on the market. Making any of them useful for your environment requires customization, training, and plain old time. When I was working at a school that had to pick a new LMS, we eventually settled on Moodle simply because it was the only option that was sufficiently hackable for us to turn it into something usable.