drupal lms. february 2015 [brisbane drupal meetup]

Drupal LMS10 February 2015

Brisbane meetup

TOC

- Learning management systems

- Mission

- Philosophy

- Audience

- Goals

- Roadmap

LMS

Learning management system

- institution

- Content / course

- teacher, student

- Rosters, Grades, discussions, syllabus, collaboration, mail, chat ...

LMS

- moodle

- blackboard Learn

- google lms

- many many more

LMS Platforms

- https://www.coursera.org/

- https://www.edx.org/

- https://novoed.com/

LMS: moodle

- Open source

- last release: 2.8.3 (Feb 2, 2015)

- Original release: 1999

- Written in PHP

- Website: https://moodle.org/

LMS: blackboard Learn

- Proprietary

- last release: 9.1 (April 2010)

- Original release: 1998

- Written in Java

- Website: https://www.blackboard.com/

- Google “Blackboard learn”

LMS: blackboard Learn

2011: CourseSites, a free version of its Blackboard Learn and

Collaborate software

2012: “Blackboard's focus on acquisitions prevented the

company from fully focusing on their software products,

which has led to the continual introduction of additional

features, known as feature creep.” TechCrunch writer Rip

Empson

Drupal as LMS

ELMS (v6)

- https://www.drupal.org/project/elms

ELMS: Course Information System (v6 & 7)

- https://www.drupal.org/project/cis

ELMS: Massively Open Online Course (v6 & 7)

- https://www.drupal.org/project/mooc

Drupal as LMS

ELMS (v7)

- https://www.elmsln.org/

- https://btopro.wordpress.com/

- https://github.com/btopro/elmsln

Modules

- https://www.drupal.org/project/quiz (7203)

- https://www.drupal.org/project/course (646)

- https://www.drupal.org/project/achievements (269)

https://www.drupal.org/project/accessibility

Drupal as LMS Extension

integrations, i.e.

Pros Cons

- targeted goals - custom development

- separation - multiple systems

- Extra players

- Authentication

Drupal Lms

- Codename: project lantern

- Base: Drupal 8

- Initial funding and support by Technocrat

- Initial release: Drupal south 2015

mission

to provide Educational solution

- alternative

- Accessible

- RESPONSIVE

- community

- suite of tools

philosophy

- open source

- education-down approach

- developers-up approach

- No single client approach

- single solution approach

Audience

1. Edu community

2. users limited by current lms

3. new drupal users

4. Developers

Goals

1. Create alternative, not competition

2. edu-driven

3. outcome as set of

● Tools

● Profiles

● Modules

Roadmap

- Initial schema build on moodle

- Ability to migrate to-from moodle

- public website Release

Roadmap

0.0.1 > 0.1

- edu institution, teacher, student roles

- courses management

- foundation based theme

Roadmap

Q1 2015

- public website Release

- Release at drupalsouth

- Educational cloud

We want you

- Development

- Testing

- Documentation

- Ideas

References

Official Technocrat releases

- https://github.com/technocratau/DrupalLMS

Current working branch

- https://github.com/VladimirAus/DrupalLMS

QUESTIONS?

- http://www.technocrat.com.au/

- @Vladimiraus @tesdev

- http://www.slideshare.net/VladimirAus