Moodle

[Richard Gaskin]

Robert J. Earp wrote:
> Has anybody had any experience with Moodle, the course management system 
> (http://moodle.org/).  Can Rev stacks be integrated with it ?

To the degree that it adheres to the common courseware interoperability 
standards (SCORM, IMS, AICC), it should be relatively straightforward to 
make courseware in any tool to integrate with Moodle.

Some portions of these standards are limited to in-browser delivery, so 
of course those are out of the loop for Rev (and most other authoring 
systems).

But for anything delivered on CD-ROM over over networks to be run from 
its own executable beyond the browser, that's precisely the objective of 
these interoperability standards.

Many years ago I build a pair of courses for a corporate client designed 
for compliance with AICC (a less popular CMS standard, and its 
decreasing relevance is welcome as it was odd for an interop standard to 
include so many Microsoft-specific elements).  I made the courseware in 
ToolBook, and the CMS was made in VB.  The data transfer mechanisms were 
file-based and simple in that spec, and because more recent specs like 
IMS make strong use of XML they are in many ways even simpler.

I haven't used Moolde myself, and haven't needed to make CMS 
standards-compliant courseware in a long time. But the Moodle docs seem 
very extensive and they have an active support community, so hopefully 
it won't be hard to learn what's needed for integration.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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