Re: (ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-05-01 Thread Mik Muller
I remember someone came from Prometheus to explain the platform a little after it was already installed. Can't remember the guy's name, but he explained that the heart of the system was this one single table that contained -- and I'm not exaggerating here -- 250 columns. The gasp that was

Re: (ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-04-26 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Michael Muller wrote: Sorry for the OT post, but I'm looking for recommendations on a LMS for a client. This solution's recently on my radar via a client who's implementing it. http://www.ilias.de/ I haven't used it so I can't speak to it's quality, but it

Re: (ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-04-26 Thread Mik Muller
Yes, I know. The client hasn't given me much of a spec on what they're going to try to do, other than that they want to offer training to nurses. I'm guessing it's just standard course work and testing for certification. I'd already suggested Moodle and a couple fee-based platforms, including

Re: (ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-04-26 Thread Dave Watts
Funny. When I worked at the University of Massachusetts I was on a team that launched UMassOnline back in 2003. The university paid a million bucks for the source code of Prometheus (ColdFusion 4.5 I believe), and my team was charged with making some adjustments and changing every single

RE: (ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-04-26 Thread Matthew S Blatchley
: Friday, April 26, 2013 10:10 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: (ot) Online Learning Platforms Funny. When I worked at the University of Massachusetts I was on a team that launched UMassOnline back in 2003. The university paid a million bucks for the source code of Prometheus (ColdFusion 4.5 I believe

(ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Muller
Hey all. Sorry for the OT post, but I'm looking for recommendations on a LMS for a client. Any suggestions? I've found a few, but I'm sure there's more that I missed. Thanks, MM Michael Muller -- (413) 320-5336 http://MontagueWebWorks.com ** Powered by ROCKETFUSION ** Information is

Re: (ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-04-25 Thread Dave Watts
Sorry for the OT post, but I'm looking for recommendations on a LMS for a client. What exactly does your client need to do with this LMS? You haven't given us much to go on. There aren't all that many LMS products out there any more. On the commercial side, you have Blackboard - they bought

RE: (ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Parker
++ -Original Message- From: Michael Muller [mailto:mich...@mullertech.com] Sent: Friday, 26 April 2013 12:21 PM To: cf-talk Subject: (ot) Online Learning Platforms Hey all. Sorry for the OT post, but I'm looking for recommendations on a LMS for a client. Any suggestions? I've found a few

Re: (ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-04-25 Thread Maureen
Moodle works fairly well once installed and configured, but the learning curve is steep, and the code is complex, so be aware that integrating it into a CF site will not be without problems. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Parker tras...@internode.on.netwrote: Not CF if you had that in