Learning Management Systems

This is a collection of learning management systems (LMS) A term that is interchangeable with this LMS is Course management systems (CMS.) This type of software is rapidly growing in popularity as an effective way of teaching collaborative learning in classrooms.

Thanks to WinOSS CDRom for contributing to this software list


Claroline	Claroline is a Web Based Course Management System. It allows teachers (professors, lecturers...) to create and administer course websites through a browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, FireFox, Mozilla, ...). * Publish documents in any format (PDF, HTML, Office, Video...). * Run public or private discussion forums. * Manage a list of links. * Create student groups. * Compose exercises. * Structure an agenda with tasks and deadlines. * Make announcements (also via e-mail). * Have students submit papers. * Consult statistics of frequenting and success in the exercises.	Web / Browser Based
Moodle	Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.	Web / Browser Based
Sakai	The Sakai software includes many of the features common to course management systems, including document distribution, a gradebook, discussion, live chat, assignment uploads, and online testing. In addition to the course management features, Sakai is intended as a collaborative tool for research and group projects. To support this function, Sakai includes the ability to change the settings of all the tools based on roles, changing what the system permits different users to do with each tool. It also includes a wiki, mailing list distribution and archiving, and an RSS reader.	Web / Browser Based

Claroline

Claroline is a Web Based Course Management System. It allows teachers (professors, lecturers...) to create and administer course websites through a browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, FireFox, Mozilla, ...).
* Publish documents in any format (PDF, HTML, Office, Video...).
* Run public or private discussion forums.
* Manage a list of links.
* Create student groups.
* Compose exercises.
* Structure an agenda with tasks and deadlines.
* Make announcements (also via e-mail).
* Have students submit papers.
* Consult statistics of frequenting and success in the exercises.

Web / Browser Based

Moodle

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.

Web / Browser Based

Sakai

The Sakai software includes many of the features common to course management systems, including document distribution, a gradebook, discussion, live chat, assignment uploads, and online testing.

In addition to the course management features, Sakai is intended as a collaborative tool for research and group projects. To support this function, Sakai includes the ability to change the settings of all the tools based on roles, changing what the system permits different users to do with each tool. It also includes a wiki, mailing list distribution and archiving, and an RSS reader.

Web / Browser Based