What's an LMS?
(I do understand that my asking this question almost certainly means I can't answer your question.)
Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
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#12What's an LMS? (I do understand that my asking this question almost certainly means I can't answer your question.)
I am wondering the same thing. Thanks for posting your comment.
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#13What's an LMS? (I do understand that my asking this question almost certainly means I can't answer your question.)
Learning Management System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system
Re: Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
#14What's an LMS? (I do understand that my asking this question almost certainly means I can't answer your question.)
Learning Management System - manages training, students etc
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#15LMS stands for Learning Management System in case anyone else didn’t know.
And it’s a misnomer as far as I can tell, because it’s a system for managing the teaching, or the administration maybe, but is not actually used by the learners.
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#16What's an LMS? (I do understand that my asking this question almost certainly means I can't answer your question.)
Learning Management System. An online tool to manage physical and online courses students wiki test etc.
Re: Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
#17LMS stands for Learning Management System in case anyone else didn’t know. And it’s a misnomer as far as I can tell, because it’s a system for managing the teaching, or the administration maybe, but is not actually used by the learners.
IDK, in our local universities Moodle-based systems are very much used by the learners as that's the primary way of receiving and looking up all learning material other the lectures themselves (and now with covid, also the recordings of remote lectures), the organizational information e.g. schedule changes and other comunication, feedback, and of receiving and submitting assignments and, in some cases, tests; it's essentially the primary "portal" used by students every day.
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#18The underlying protocol most [1] LMS use, [2] LTI, is horrible (IMHO). That may have something to do with the quality of platforms built in top of it. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Tools_Interoperabil...
Ah LTI, it’s been a while.
The tough thing about LTI is that it assumes the piece of content you’re trying to serve is a single resource. So if you’re serving a video or a single HTML page, then cool. If your page is some sort of JS player that loads the content from an API after the page loads, you basically have to create a relay race of auth systems to tie it all together. This is a super common format (a JS lesson player that lazy loads each page/slide as needed) so a ton of people have had to solve this problem in different ways.
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#19Is (online) education is an attractive market? Before Covid, the answer was: Meh. Lot of competition, little funding in most countries. And Moodle (or Canvas) is a good enough solution, both also enable kind of third-party marketplaces. We looked at different LMS solutions and some better ones could best be described as "Moodle distributions", centered around a theme and some plugins.
Re: Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
#20LMS stands for Learning Management System in case anyone else didn’t know. And it’s a misnomer as far as I can tell, because it’s a system for managing the teaching, or the administration maybe, but is not actually used by the learners.
Not a misnomer. Features of an LMS are used by the learners