The 'design flaw' relating to course content that you describe Massimo is a very important problem to solve. It comes up a lot in Moodle discussions - how can I reuse content (across courses and / or groups) but not have the wrong people access it at the wrong time. The new Moodle 2 has attempted to resolve this but the solution is creating problems itself - I recommend this set of slides which you can go through in about 5 minutes to illustrate the problem:
http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=271 On 28 September 2010 16:26, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > All the existing LMS have a basic desin flaw. The content belongs to a > course not the author. That means that if the author is an instructor > who uses the same content in multiple courses, the content has to be > replicated. At best they offer tools to replicate content and charge > an arm and a leg for this. > > Content (files, assignments, wikis, blogs, videos, etc.) should belong > to whoever created it. Courses should just contain people (not stuff). > Stuff is made available to courses. the course opening page itself > should be a wiki page made available to the members (the students). > Groups should have a hierarchy. > Massimo > > >
