[CoLoCo] Build a Better CMS for Schools

[Brian Fromme]

Hi Jim,

Google also has an open-source, Django-based framework, called Google
Course Builder:  https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/

Neal, I'm very interested in your experiences with edX for your course.

Perhaps we can setup a virtual team to work together in some way, since
there are probably several of us who are interested in this topic.

 cheers,
 Brian



On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us>wrote:

> Hi, Jim!  Good to hear from you.  I'm working with edX myself now, in the
> class on AI I'm teaching at CU.
>   https://sites.google.com/a/colorado.edu/csci3202/
>
> It's open source, based on Django :)
>
> I wonder if it wouldn't be best to work from a great general-purpose CMS,
> and just provide an initial template suitable for a school.
>
> Random googling leads to others also:
>
>   https://code.google.com/p/classcomm/
>
>   http://mezzanine.jupo.org/
>
> -Neal
>
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 08:20:12AM -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> >    I've worked with several of the popular ones (school fusion, sharp
> >    school) and they are horrible. Messy UI for both the teachers building
> >    content and for the students finding it. Their social tools are last
> >    minute ad-ons and don't work well, are cluttered and not user
> friendly.
> >    The landing page is usually good but beyond that it starts to break
> >    down. Schoology is one of the more interesting ones but they don't
> seem
> >    to have good insight into how it's actually used so has it own set of
> >    issues.
> >    I know I can design a better one but I can't build it.
> >    If anyone is interested in developing a potential business idea or
> >    adding a new product to a list of current offerings please let me
> know.
> >    To be clear, I know nothing about business. I'm an educator,
> >    educational technologist and instructional designer. I do know
> schools,
> >    students and teachers (i.e. the end users and customers).
> >    --
> >    Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)
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