Terry,
It's funny that you should mention Blackboard being awful. It really IS
gawdawful! I happened to be in my class early one day and several
students were trying to access my Moodle setup (on server space I rent
from Mark and paid him to install while I maintain) and they reported it
was down. I messaged Mark, he checked it and said it came up fine for
him, then my students all reported it worked for them as well (signalling
a network error on our end), and then one of them remarked that my Moodle
site was far more reliable than the campus' Blackboard server that their
other instructors used and for which we pay a bazillion dollars to license
and another bazillion in IT costs to maintain.
Judy
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Terry Judd wrote:
It's big because the main alternatives (notably BlackBoard) are so awful
(and awfully expensive). I'm no big fan of Learning Management Systems but
they're here to stay (at least in tertiary educational environments) -
administrators love them, educators not so much. We're currently building a
bespoke learning environment (emphasis on learning) for medical students
(LiveCode clients, mysql/php backend) and plan to phase out the use
Blackboard during 2012. I'm expecting a 'please explain' call from the
university's IT decision makers before too long.
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