Money and Education? In terms of cost Moodle would cost us just as much as Blackboard. In order to get Moodle to do the same things we do with Blackboard it would cost us a lot of money.
Then comes the tech support aspect, with Moodle who do I call when something doesn't work right? The man hours it takes to find the answer to a problem are much higher. I don't know how many users you guys are dealing with, but Blackboard has a pretty good support team when there is a critical problem. When 40,000 users can't get on to the system, people start complaining. > -----Original Message----- > From: Denny Valliant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:32 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: moodle? > > Moodle rox'n. Good stuff. > Thousands of folks using it. > > Now, I'm incredibly biased. WebCT and blackboard can eat a bowl. > A bowl of weenies. I seriously have a problem with both of 'em. > > I'd run with moodle over those two packages in a heartbeat. > > Moodle has a good bit of plugins (you do gotta watch what version > they work with, etc.) and it's open source, so anyone can add > anything. Hands down beats the crap outta webct and blackboard. > > Haven't messed with blackboard in years, so take it with a grain, > but I've messed with webCT off and on, and it's just lame how > much they want for the software. It isn't that special. Nope. No > way, no how. > > Mostly I love that it's open source, has a crapload of users (which > is a good part of a good OS package) and mailing lists with help > full and like minded whatnots. > > This is a heart issue, mostly. Moodle has heart. WebCT and BB > lack it. Money and education shouldn't be so tied together. > > Or maybe they should. Eh. CF seems to work, and it's a "pay" > type deal... eh. Whatever. > > Big strong vote for Moodle over here. Education should be open. > > Or not. > > Well, with that bit of enlightenment, I'm outties to catch up a bit. > > On 1/10/07, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > another question -- does anyone have any thoughts or experience with > > this? They are considering it as an alternative to WebCT. > > > > thanks > > Dana > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225275 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
