[K12OSN] OT: Moodle vs Plone

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 9/5/06, Kari Matthews <karisue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If it's content management you need, I'd recommend Joomla -- and
> heartily.  It is fantastic and the forums and such are great.  I used it for
> our school site:  www.stmaryswestville.com/school
>
> I have moodle set up at our elementary school, but no teacher is
> interested in coure management just yet.
>
> What functionality are you looking for?  Perhaps some of the users here
> can share the solutions they think are best for your particular needs.
>


although I have not used either I know what the features of each are but I
have heard of schools using plone and being happy with it's ease of use. I
think I'll end up trying both. Thanks for the input on Joomla.

~kari
>
>
> On 9/4/06, Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> >
> > > Can someone give me a brief comparison of Moodle vs Plone for
> > > school dept. (math, science, etc) websites.
> >
> > Just read the respective websites. Both have one-line descriptions on
> > their sites.
> >
> > Moodle: "Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open
> > Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles,
> > to help educators create effective online learning communities."
> > http://moodle.org/
> >
> > Plone: "Plone is a user-friendly powerful content management system -
> > ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing
> > system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration
> > between separately located entities."
> > http://plone.org/products/plone
> >
> > Plone is a general purpose content management system, while Moodle is
> > especially geared towards course management.
> >
> > Nils Breunese.
> >
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