A free course management system for teachers

Sep 22, '03 09:59:00AM

Contributed by: wrwjpn

I have just recently downloaded and installed a learning management system (LMS) known as Moodle on my iMac (iMac DV, 400mhz, 512mb RAM, OS X 10.2.6). It is written in PHP and connects to MySQL without any problems. If you are looking for such a system, please check this out.

I have had 20 students connect and take tests, participate in forums, and upload files for me to grade. All this without any problems or performance slow downs. I hope to move it over to a dedicated server soon for some real world testing. I usually have 60 students in a class, so I need to test it with 60 students simultaneously connecting.

For any teacher, having quizzes and test grades added to your grade book automatically is a blessing. I have a total of 300 students that I have to grade and this makes my life easier. If you looking for something like this, please check it out. Oh! I forgot to mention, this is is open source and it is all FREE as in free beer. It will run on any OS as long as PHP is supported.

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