Incidentally I am co-chair of a University Committee in charge of choosing the next generation LMS for my university. Currently we used Blackboard 8.0. One of the LMS we are evaluating is Moodle. I developed KPAX almost one year ago as a proof of concept trying to convince colleagues that we could instead develop our own. It was a harder sell than I thought I have given up immediately because it could have been percieved as a conflict of interest.
Anyway, after having seen and studied in detail some of these systems (Blackboard 9, Angel, Desire2Learn and Moodle) I can definitively say we can do better and it is not even that difficult but it will be very tedious. Just to give you an example, none of these systems can deal with upload and streaming media without a separate streaming server. Web2py handles this out of the box. Competing with them on the market is a though sell because Blackboard already sued Desire2Learn for copyright infringement and acquired Angel (because it was perceived as their tougher competitor). I think the way to go is make a more modular KPAX and create a plugin system (something that we have discussed over and over and I can assure you there is work underway). We also need solid web services layer. Then the same system can be marketed as a CMS or an LMS or both depending on how it is configured. There may be different systems developed independently but it thing that is important is have a plugin layer with a web services software bus that can be shared by multiple plugins and web2py apps. I am glad you are interested in this area so you can give advice when the plugin system will be created. Feel free to email me personally about this is you want. Massimo On May 16, 5:48 pm, Skylar Saveland <[email protected]> wrote: > Any thoughts on a web2py-based Learning Management System? I am > perhaps to be tasked with some online learning services and am looking > for a way to get some Python in on the scene. > > Is there a way/tool (like in Django to inspectdb) to "put" the web2py > DAL "on" an existing db. It might be a bit ambitious/stupid but I am > hoping to use a Moodle system to handle a lot of stuff that Moodle can > easily handle but then be able to query and transact with the DB > through a nice Python DAL/ORM. Are there tools that I have not run > across for fitting web2py onto a legacy DB? > > Are there any out there that would be interested in such a project > that might be able to displace the evil, unusable proprietary > solutions and the dull, old open source solutions to LMS? Possibly > even with the dreaded SCORM-compliance? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
