ELMS, a Drupal distribution for educators!

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Several years in the making, a distribution of ELMS is finally ready for feedback and public consumption. It's still an alpha so I wouldn't use it in a production environment but it's a good look at the direction of the ELMS project. This is particularly exciting for me because I blog, talk and screen-cast a lot about the work we do but rarely get to pass it out freely for listeners to experience themselves.


ELMS has grown a lot since it was first discussed in early 2008 but its goal has remained the same: Lower the cost of entry for the creation of course materials. The philosophy being that if we can remove the technical barrier for educators in the creation of learning materials, they will have more time to create those materials and can spend less time fighting the tech!


Some high-level features:

 

 

  • Fine tuned module selection for great usability out of the box
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  • Best practice module selection to create a great backbone for development applicable to things other then course design
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  • Outline designer integrated with starting point outline
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  • Chamfer pre-configured
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  • Up and running in under 5 minutes!
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  • Student, instructional designer and admin roles all ready to go
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  • Comes with the award winning Open Studio installed and ready to go!
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    This is alpha release and please treat it that way!  Feedback, positive and negative, is much appreciated though! This comes with admin and test student accounts so remember if you're going to make this web accessible to remove the test account.