![]() This means that only Greg is notified of new posts to any particular forum. First of all it is not possible to subscribe to a forum, only to threads. There are a number of reasons why the Atutor forums are relatively quiet, to say the least. I *guess* that the Atutor forums sees about 10 posts a day. The biggest difference between Atutor and Moodle is the state of the related communities. Greg argues that as use of Atutor increase, there will a greate variety of templates available, some of them toned-down and easier to use. And, as with standards compliance, Atutors accessability is, for me, rather "on paper," and no in fact. Atutor goes so far with help boxes, and collapsable menus, in the attempt to make itself accessible and configurable, that it ends up being rather complicated and in-accessable. The layout is configurable however. But, as mentioned, Moodle is not far off on the accessabilty fron. Greg, who has a learning disability himself, is understandably keen on accessability. He runs some sort of Asscessibilty center or thinktank. There is a team in Italy developing the quiz module apparently. ![]() However, if there are other people like those who administer my university, the the Atutor community shoudl thrive. Then when people start joinging the Atutor community, perhaps there will be more functions. Atutor is also modular and Greg, the creator, invites other programmers to take part. There are other basic functional flaws as well. I think that random question quizes have been introduced. While my bosses may have liked Atutor more, I was unable to move to Atutor since it does not have what is for me basic functionality such as random question, random answer quizes. I have bosses that are dead keen on standars compliance. ![]() For example someone on the Atutor forums used a free Microsoft SCORM content creator (producer?) to create SCORM content, only to find that the version of SCORM was not as new as the one used by Atutor so they could not import even the content.Īll the same though, the big standards compliance banner, and the keenness with which Greg pursues compliance is going to make his system very attractive to some. I don't think that that is a so much the fault of Atutor as proof of the fact that "standards" are not standard yet. There is no capability to play SCORM packages as there is in Moodle.ĭespite this limited application of SCORM so someone on the net failed to inport and export SCORM content packages from and to Atutor and another package. Activities, including quizes I believe, are not yet supported. I think that it basically makes a package of the resources in a course. Please take with shovels of salt.Ītutor's SCORM compatability is only for the import and export of content. (in the future: a mix of scorm andlearning design?)Ĭompare it with all these picture libraries: you search and search until you realise (afterwards!!) that creation that one image yourself would take less time.įrom this point of view, creating on the fly with easy tools, Moodle has no competitor.Īll that what follows is my OPINION. I do not now any product yet that offers that. So standard is not enough, possibilty to let it fit in your learning approach should be also built in. Did anybody see more then 5 resources that would fit in your course without the need to make small changes? That goes against teacher-logic and costs much more training time (= $$$)Īlthough aTutor seems to have a big point with all these implemetend standards, it only will pay off when all these reusable learning objects bcome availble in formats of these standards. The big difference between Moodle versus BB, Claroline and aTutor, is that the activities and resources in Moodle are organised around topics, while the others are organised around IT-technolgy: forums together, resources together, etc. I find I much prefer Moodle to the leading commercial system I use in my day job. (that is one of the links on the Moodle Buzz page that Marting mentioned) You can see a good comparison of ATutor and Moodle at I found the user interface of Moodle much, much easier to understand than ATutor. The ATutor folks make a great play (reasonably so) of their accessibility and standards complience such as IMS, SCORM and WC3 WCAG, though moodle is no slouch on accessibility either. I looked at ATutor after Moodle and I was impressed, but Moodle has a very significant edge in functionality. That and some other niggles put it out of the running for me. If you are fluent in French it is a contender. For me Claroline suffers from its Francophone origins in that the code comments are in French. I have looked at 3 of what I consider realistic Free/Libre options for this type of software. Perhaps you are casting your net wider than I was in terms of functionality. Wel Seb if you have found hundreds of high grade GPL options in this sector I'd like to see a few links.
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