Walking through the LMS

I did take a look at the features of WebCT/Vista and Claroline as well and I was surprised that there is so little information posted on their respective websites with regard to server requirements. The Moodle site had clearly defined requirements. I wonder if the lack of requirements is an intentional attempt to get you to pay for installation and service, which both LMS’ offer.

The three systems offer pretty similar products, but Vista comes with a huge pricetag, about 50K for 500 users. Since I have a budget of $0, and Claroline seems to have pretty poor documentation online, even though it is also Open Source, I will choose to use Moodle, which will meet my needs well enough.

Since I have used Moodle before, the tasks outlined in the Toolkit activity were not difficult or surprising for me. Actually, they seemed pretty straightforward. I did find it interesting, that on the UBC Moodle server, we all have the ability to edit anyone’s course content. I had a classmate log into my moodle to try it and he did in fact seem to have access. I guess we will have to check the change logs to see if our courses have been altered.

I am wondering if we will have server side access so that we can create custom headers/themes? I am guessing no, since it could be a security nightmare.