Linux.com: Educators Can Manage Course Content with Moodle

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"As an educator, I am interested in course management systems (CMS) applications for courses, curriculums, and institutions. Well-known proprietary CMS applications such as WebCT and Blackboard are too expensive for the schools and companies I work with. After testing and playing with several open source CMS applications, my favorite is Moodle.

"Moodle is a popular CMS that is specifically designed to help educators create effective online learning communities. It is a Web-based platform-independent application that runs with PHP, a SQL database like MySQL, and a Web server like Apache..."

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