开源LMS的比较

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Product Name
ATutor 1.4.3
Claroline 1.4
Moodle 1.4
  
Developer Name
University of Toronto (ATRC)
Claroline Development Community
Moodle.com
  
Communication Tools
  
Discussion Forums
Discussions can be viewed by thread. Posts can include URLs, and can be either plain text or formatted text. Discussion threads are expandable and collapsible to view a list of topics or view an entire conversation on one screen. Threads can be sorted by author, topic, post date, and activity level. Students can enable or disable notification of new posts sent to their email. Threads can be locked by the instructor from reading and/or writing, or attached to the top of a thread list so important threads appear first. Active threads appear near the top of the thread list. An administrator can share discussions across courses, departments, or any institutional unit.
Discussions can be viewed by date.
The discussion tool supports a social constructionist pedagogy model. Discussions can be viewed by date, by thread, by author. Instructors can split discussion branches from the main discussion into a new discussion. Instructors can determine the level of involvement (read, write, or post anonymously) for students. Posts can include attachments, an image or URL. The discussion tool includes a formatting text editor. Posts may be peer reviewed by other students. Students may receive posts to the dicussion forums as daily digests of subject lines or whole posts as email. Students can subscribe to forum RSS feeds.
  
File Exchange
Student and instructors can upload files in most document formats to a shared course library, or to a shared group library. Students can share content from their personal folder with other students, and with an instructor or teaching assistants. Students can submit assignments into a drop box.
Students can upload files to a shared course folder.
Students can submit assignments using drop boxes.
  
Internal Email
Students can use the internal email feature or instant messaging tool to email individuals.
Students must have an external Internet email address. Students can use the Internal email feature to email individuals.
Students must have an external Internet email address.
  
　
  
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Students can use the internal email feature or instant messaging tool to communicate with other enrolled students.
  
Online Journal/Notes
Students can keep private or shared notes, associate notes with private or shared files, and print out compiled notes from within their personal work area.
　
Students can make notes in a personal journal in preformatted text or using a WYSIWYG content editor, and may share them with their instructor.
  
Real-time Chat
There is a PHP-based chat tool for course or group level messaging. Students can see who else is online within their courses.
There is a basic chat tool. The system creates archive logs for all chat rooms.
The chat tool supports images. The system creates archive logs for all chat rooms. Instructors can view chat logs. Instructors can schedule chats using the course calendar. Students can see who else is online within their course.
  
Video Services
　
　
　
  
Whiteboard
　
　
　
  
Productivity Tools
  
Bookmarks
　
　
　
  
Orientation/Help
The system includes an online course to help students, and instructors, learn how to use the system. Students can access context sensitive help for any tool, or for fields within tools. Functional feedback is provided after each action to indicate successes, warnings, or errors.
　
Students can access context sensitive help.
  
Searching Within Course
Students can use keywords to simultaneously search all of their courses or all available courses.
　
Students can search all discussion threads in their course.
  
Calendar/Progress Review
Private, group, and course calendars can be used to keep track of assignments, deadlines, due dates, etc.. Instructors, group leaders, or group members can post to the calendar.
Instructors can post events and announcements in the online course calendar.
Students can view their completed and pending course readings and activities. Students can view their grades on completed assignments. RSS feeds are available for a number of resources that can notify people using aggregators of changes to materials.
  
Work Offline/Synchronize
Students can compile course pages into a downloadable content package for viewing offline in an accompanying content viewer.
　
　
  
Student Involvement Tools
  
Groupwork
With the ACollab Groupware Addon for ATutor instructors can create group activities, and assign group leaders to create and manage groups. Each group has its own file exchange area, collaborative document authoring/versioning tools, discussion forum, chat room, group email list, and shared calendar.
Instructors can assign students to groups. Each group can have its own discussion forum and
Instructors can assign students to groups. Groups can either be defined at the course level and apply across all activities that support them, or at the individual activity level.
  
file exchange.
  
Self-assessment
Instructors can create self-assessments that students can take multiple times. Automatically scored multiple choice and true/false, as well as random question tests are available. Instructor marked fill-in-the blank questions can be added to self-tests, and custom feedback can be provided.
Instructors can create self-assessments. The system automatically scores multiple choice, true/false, and multiple answer type questions and can display instructor-created feedback.
Instructors can create timed or un-timed self-assessments that students can take multiple times. The system automatically scores multiple choice, true/false, and short answer type questions and can display instructor-created feedback, explanations and links to relevant course material.
  
Student Community Building
Students can create study groups with their own forums and chat rooms. Students can send messages privately, or to a group. A shared notice board allows students to post news items or announcements.
　
　
  
Student Portfolios
Students have personal and public folders that can be shared with other students, with group members, with a course instructor, or with teaching assistants.
Students have a public folder for displaying their work in every course in which they are enrolled.
Students can create a personal home page. Students’ personal home pages may include a list of all discussion posts they have submitted, their photo, and personal information.
  
Administration Tools
  
Authentication
Administrators and instructors can set courses to be publicly accessible, or can protect access to individual courses with a username and password. System has a password reminder option.
Instructors can set courses to be publicly accessible or can protect access to individual courses with a username and password. The system has a password reminder option. The system can also authenticate against an external LDAP server. User sessions can be encrypted with MD5 encryption.
The system uses basic username and password authentication. The system can authenticate against a variety of sources, including external databases, LDAP directory servers, IMAP, POP3, secure NNTP and First Class servers
  

Course Authorization
Instructors can assign limited access to administrative and instructional tools based on pre-defined roles or permissions. Instructors can create teaching assistants or additional instructors, each with their own custom privileges.
　
The software provides tools for Administrators to assign access privileges to different group roles: Administrators, Instructors, Students and Guests. Group role privileges can be further defined into subgroup privileges. Instructors or students may be assigned different roles in different courses. The system can access authorization information stored in other external directory services, including payment gateways.
  
Registration Integration
Students can self-register. Instructors can batch add students to a course using a delimited text file.
Instructors can add students to a course or students can self-register. Instructors can batch add students to a course using a delimited text file.
Instructors can batch add students to a course using a delimited text file or students can self-register. The software supports integration with external information systems through an event-driven API or through a tool that is based on scheduled system exports.
  
Hosted Services
The product provider offers a free and fee based hosted systems.
　
The product provider and partner companies offer hosted systems that include: managed software installation, service level agreements on a network of fault-tolerant Unix servers in a secure facility with environmental control, redundant Tier 1 network connections and power, 10Gb bandwidth per month and nightly backups. Hosting contracts are fixed per month and allow unlimited courses.