[LON-CAPA-users] Hej, we're the number two!

[Travis Souza]

Great Job.

The project nipping at the heels of LON-CAPA, Moodle, has some good
functionality for liberal arts and social sciences.  It doesn't have the
power of LC but it is very easy to use although there is no quiz import.
 I have faith that LON-CAPA will get there and surpass all challengers.

BTW I may be presenting on LON-CAPA at the FALL Educause Conference. 
I'll keep you informed.

Looking forward to 1.0.

Travis

Travis Souza, Coordinator
Instructional Center for Innovation
Truckee Meadows Community College
775-674-7505
tsouza@tmcc.edu 

>>> korte@lite.msu.edu 05/01/03 12:02PM >>>
After a rather gloomy and very depressing day struggling with unhappy 
and complaining users - Jeremy found this:

http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/Open_Source_Courseware 

Guy translated some of the codes:


> Scalability    - 5
> Openness       - 5
> Administration - 4
> Implementation - 3
> Functionality  - 4
> Effectiveness  - 3

A 4 was the highest they gave for functionality (tied with ATutor), and

a 24 overall score was the highest total score they gave (tied with 
CHEF).

The following is probably very fair:

"LON-CAPA is long on functionality and support for extended character 
sets and computation, but it's a bit short on user friendliness."

The review goes on:

"It is a robust system built for enterprise scalability and handles 
clustering well. This system is highly recommended as one of the most 
promising candidates for providing traditional course management 
functionality for large institutions. LON-CAPA is an active participant

in the standards movement and provides strong documentation and 
development support."

Now let's get the @$%# bugs out of the system ... release 1.0 is coming

dangerously close.





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