Cource Management, eLearning
Learning Management System (or LMS)
Software that automates the administration of training. The LMS registers users, tracks courses in a catalog, records data from learners; and provides reports to management. An LMS is typically designed to handle courses by multiple publishers and providers.
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LON-CAPA
LON-CAPA
The Free Open-Source Distributed Learning Content Management and Assessment System.
LON-CAPA is a full-featured, web-based course management system similar to commercial systems.
In addition, it has the following features:
- Content sharing and content reusability, including
- Network of shared resources from over
70 participating institutions
- Shared repository of circa 150,000
resources
including assessment questions and multimedia content
- Easy semester transition
- A large set of resources in physics/astronomy, chemistry, biology,
mathematics/statistics, and geology
- Ability to add new resources to the existing content pool
- Creation and grading of randomized homework, quizzes or exams, including
the ability to
- create sophisticated question types
such as: click-on image, random label, random plot, or formula response
- reduce blind copying of answers by giving a different version
of the problems to each student
- print randomized bubblesheet exams and quizzes
- configure the reporting of grades and feedback with a wide variety
of options
- contextualize threaded homework discussions
- A development group based that sustains a twice-yearly LON-CAPA release
cycle to insure rapid incorporation of instructor-requested enhancements.
- An open-source freeware system
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