The following ingrediants make the quality of an LMS and are the focal points of making an LMS decision . Let's come together and create a comprehensive list around these topics to create a standard "Building the case for Moodle" document for schools around the world. This could be used in conjunction with the 10 Myths about Moodle. Please include your knowledge of Moodle in these areas, personal experiences, testimonies, examples, and anything else that will help build the case for Moodle.
- High availability: The
LMS must be robust enough to serve the diverse needs of thousands of
learners, administrators, content builders and instructors
simultaneously.
- Moodle and availability - [answer here]
- Moodle and availability - [answer here]
- Scalability: The
infrastructure should be able to expandor scaleto meet future
growth, both in terms of the volume of instruction and the size of the
student body.
- Moodle and scalability- [answer here]
- Moodle and scalability- [answer here]
- Usability: To support a
host of automated and personalized services, such as self-paced and
role-specific learning, the access, delivery and presentation of
material must be easy-to-use and highly intuitivelike surfing on the
Web or shopping on Amazon.com.
- Moodle and usability-- [answer here]
- Moodle and usability-- [answer here]
- Interoperability: To
support content from different sources and multiple vendors
hardware/software solutions, the LMS should be based on open industry
standards for Web deployments (XML, SOAP or AQ) and support the major
learning standards (AICC, SCORM, IMS and IEEE).
- Moodle and interoperability - [answer here]
- Moodle and interoperability - [answer here]
- Stability: The LMS infrastructure can reliably and effectively manage a large enterprise implementation running 24x7.
- Moodle and stablility - [answer here]
- Moodle and stablility - [answer here]
- Security: As with any
outward-facing collaborative solution, the LMS can selectively limit
and control access to online content, resources and back-end functions,
both internally and externally, for its diverse user community.
- Moodle and Security - [answer here]
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