It's stuff like this where LMS/CMS versus eLearning
starts to make me scratch my head.
I'm scratching my head too.
From what I've been reading, an LMS is really a 'testing' management system.
It serves out content from the CMS and then collects and stores test grades,
student results, etc.
Is
Totally agree that users can have lots of difficulty when
presented with
Content
Wysiwyg pages that allow the user to get the feel of what
he is entering
or creating is the real requirement.
Is this an issue of human nature, or simply learned behavior?
I agree that content should be
I certainly don't want this topic to veer off into the realm of off
topicness, so if it does, someone shoot it down.
That said, I find it a very interesting topic...
For example - if I work in Marketing Communications and am tasked to
write Press Releases, how can I insure that my press
To them, knowing where the line wraps
is important.
But is it?
It's not. This is just an issue the content author has. Where the line wraps
is really irrelevant to most everyone except maybe the graphic designer who
is laying out a printed piece...which always takes manual handiwork
The ultimate look and feel of your content IS important and is not
something that should be left to the DBA or whover who oversees the
overall CMS. If you ask me, a CMS should make it as easy for
designers
and artists to design, manipulate and output pages (essentially, the
shells into
Of course Darrel we know you mean that this is true only in
organizations
where there is a clear separation between the two roles right? :-)
Right. I'm certainly speaking theoretically.
Still...while the roles may be handled by one person, they really are still
two different tasks. Content
Ok...my last post on the topic (I think people are getting bored with me)...
I'd like to play devil's advocate here. One of the intrinsically
different things about presentation on the web -- to say nothing about
alternative formats like WAP -- is that you have no idea what the
physical
(argh...I hate Outlook. Sent message before finishing...sorry...)
We in the CMS
space should just engulf the eLearning technologies like a big amoeba.
Anyone want to help me define a new eLearning standard? Hehe...
Out of complete curiosity and, perhaps, naivete, what is SCORM and why is
What benefits do .Net CMS's have verses Java based CMS's?
You can sell them to a organization that for whatever reason has decided to
go solely with MS technologies.
;) ;)
(granted, the converse is true, too...)
-Darrel
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more signal, less noise.
It came up in discussion today that we may be having to work on the
perihpery of a Vignette CMS system.
My past experience with Vignette was several years ago with their
StoryServer product and the concensus seemed to be that it was really
expensive, had proprietary dev tools, and a bit of a
In my admittedly brief searching, the only one I found was:
http://web500.com/
Several vendors are saying that their 'next versions' will be .net, but
web500 appears to be one of the few that currently is.
-Darrel
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From: Andrew Iddon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
This may be completely off topic, but it seems to have some correlation with
CMS.
We're currently researching various CMS solutions for our org. We've
recently added a secondary need...online training/courseware/testing. Has
anyone worked with a product that offers the delivery of training
Why would you want to do that through the CMS rather than
through the forum
software?
FYI, just to add to the discussion, I can see a need for allowing people to
subsrcibe to sections of a site. Ie, enter your email here to receive
notice when new content is posted here. It'd be nice if the
In this case, I'd have to agree with Adam in that these features you are
requesting are specific to a web forum...not really a CMS.
Most forum software allows for the subscribing to threads, and there are
several that allow for the posting via email as well.
-Darrel
Here's the scenario:
If
Are there any other parameters, or is cost the only one?
-Darrel
my budget got uploaded to the 20k US dollars .
I'll be happy to get a list of recommended CMS products
answering this budget.
10x in advance.
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trim your replies for good karma.
One bit of content we are planning on disseminating via a CMS has an unusual
restriction: the pagination must be preserved.
These are documents that ultimately need to be searchable, viewable,
parsable, but also retain a specic pagination scheme for proper citations.
For instance, the document,
It sounds like to just need to break your content up into passage
blocks, then maintain a list of which blocks go in which order on
which pages. PDF-ing the pages doesn't seem like it will gain you much
here, since you're not necessarily interested in keeping a physical
representation of the
A lot of people recommend mt for a basic, free CMS, but I don't think it
would really be applicable in this case. MT is really a CMS designed for
news items. Somthing that gets created, then archived. Not really for
content that gets constantly accessed and modified.
Am I wrong?
try:
I'm no expert on this, so feel free to correct any errors...
First of all, this seems like a DAM (digital assets management) issue more
than a content management issue. So, perhaps looking in that direction may
be of assistance.
I think this is normally called document imaging. I'd suggest using
This has sort-of been discussed already, but this topic has lead me to a new
question:
Why do organizations depend on Word so much...which just creates a lot of
unstructured content?
Well, the answer, of course, is because it's the word processor the company
bought and is the product everyone
IK -- Yes, but
a) form based content entry does not prevent content being entered in
the 'wrong' field in addition to being not very flexible to
begin with,
I didn't think we were talking about form-based input. You, of course, only
would want to use form-based input for very structured
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