[Moodle] moodle vs sharepoint?

[Stephen Digby]

Don't know sharepoint, but suggets you ask if Sharepoint can match:
- free to everyone in the world i.e. we add strength to an Australian originated and world wide renowned open source cf a private
costly locked up system.
- built in (rather than tweaked work-arounds !) to allow teachers to
   - easily enrol students in courses and group them (without intervention of tech staff)
   -  offer files to them (shoeprint does this well)
   -  collect their work (can share point easily allow submission of work, keep it secure against others, alert you by email or
online notice when it is submitted, display a list of who has and has not submitted etc)
  - display assessment/ feedback comments (overall and inline with their work) & grades securely and individually to students on
individual work and across a whole course
- offer built in features like the
     - wiki and glossary that automatically link all occurrences of your course keywords throughout your course
     - questionnaire which allows easy creation (and analysis of results) on a wide variety of question types
     -
 
These are just my favourites....
 
- I think share point does mainly the discussion groups and file storage and access.

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Cheltenham Secondary College www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au Ph: 613 955 55 955  Fx: 9555 8617
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From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of ARNOTT Suzanne
Sent: Monday, 24 April 2006 2:56 PM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: [Moodle] moodle vs sharepoint?


Hi all,
thank you so much for the support so far, 
 
My technician is trying to steer me towords using Sharepoint...
not having used either it sort of leaves me at his mercy a bit... I have read through some of the moodle forums on comapring the two
programs, and their seems to be a definite slant towards moodle being the preferred option (even schools using sharepoint have
integrated moodle into the system, as the collaborative tasks work much better with a moodle environment.)
Personally I love the networking that is going on here, and see that as a huge bonus to going moodle anyway...
I guess I'm just looking for some specifics I can use to argue the case.
cheers
Suz
 
 

Suzanne Arnott
Elisabeth Murdoch College
Photography and Multimedia Coordinator
Assistant Manager, Learning Technologies
  

 

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