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Web CMS - Free and Open Source Educational Software

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Definitions

"A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content."
- Wikipedia Content Management System 22 October 2008
"A Learning Management System (LMS) is software for delivering, tracking and managing training. LMSs range from simple systems for managing training records to software for distributing courses over the Internet and offering features for online collaboration. "
- Wikipedia Learning Management System 22 October 2008

Content Management Systems

Drupal

Drupal - web based content management system - flexible, rock solid, less preincluded modules - good for programmer (platform independent)

http://drupal.org (GPL)

Drupal modules - Ubercart, E-commerce and other modules

http://drupal.org/project/Modules (Free)

Getting-Started-with-Drupal-Guide - tutorial to help you learn about installing and configuring a Drupal website

http://open4a.com/?q=freetraining (GNU Free Documentation License)

Drupal Tutorial - links to many Drupal tutorials

http://www.sharpprogrammer.com/content-management/drupal-tutorial/

Run Drupal - Top 10 Things to do after you install Drupal

http://www.rundrupal.com/tutorials/top-10-things-do-after-you-install-drupal

Drupal Help & FAQ - What makes Drupal special?

http://drupalhelp.org/

Drupal Developer Toolkit - set of Drupal modules and Firefox addons and other Development tools to help Drupal developers

http://deekayen.net/drupal-developer-toolkit

Ubercart - e-commerce solution with shopping cart for Drupal

http://www.ubercart.org/drupal-ecommerce (Free)

Mobile Drupal - Making mobile web sites with Drupal

http://www.mobiledrupal.com/

Joomla

Joomla - web based content management system - easy to install, setup and learn - good for beginner (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.joomla.org/ (GPL)

Joomla extensions - components, templates and modules

http://extensions.joomla.org/

Joomla Documentation - Start here

http://docs.joomla.org/

Joomla Help - Installation guide and manual

http://help.joomla.org/

Joomla General Help Guide - Tutorial web site

http://www.howjoomla.com/

How to Joomla - How-Tos on Installation, Components and Modules

http://www.howtojoomla.net/

VirtueMart - Free shopping cart software for Joomla

http://virtuemart.net/ (GPL)

Mobile - PDA plugin for Joomla

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/miscellaneous/mobile (GPL)

MediaWiki

Mediawiki - originally written for wikipedia (platform independent)

http://www.mediawiki.org/ (Free)

Getting-Started-with-Mediawiki - tutorial to help you learn about installing and configuring a Mediawiki website

http://open4a.com/?q=freetraining (GNU Free Documentation License)

Mediawiki extensions

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_extensions (Free)

Mediawiki Help

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents (Free Public Domain)

More CMS

phpMyEdit - generates PHP code for displaying/editing MySQL tables (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.phpmyedit.org (Free version)

phpESP - creating and publishing online survey forms (platform independent) http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Projects/phpESP (GPL)

WordPress - blogg system (platform independent)

http://wordpress.org (GPL)

WebCalendar - calendar diary system (platform independent)

http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php (GPL)

phpMyAdmin - web front end to MySQL - comes as part of WAMP or XAMPP (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.phpmyadmin.net (GPL)

DoJo - open source JavaScript toolkit for building dynamic capabilities into web pages includes Ajax (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://dojotoolkit.org/ (AFL and BSD Licenses)

jQuery - JavaScript library to perform animations and add Ajax interactions to web pages (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://jquery.com/ (MIT and GPL Licenses)

E107 - customisable content management system (platform independent)

http://e107.org (GPL)

LimeSurvey - open source survey application refreshingly easy and free (platform independent) http://www.limesurvey.org/ (GPL)

Mahara - open source eportfolios that can interoperate with Moodle (platform independent) http://mahara.org/ (GPL)

Mambo - web based content management system (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.source.mambo-foundation.org (GPL)

Plone - user friendly content management system using Zope and Java (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://plone.org/ (GPL)

Typo3 - web based content management system (platform independent)

http://typo3.com/ (GPL)

Xoops - content management system (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.xoops.org/ (GPL)

PHP Open Source CMS - try out open source systems

http://php.opensourcecms.com/

For work organisers and project management systems see Business Workflow and HTML and CSS Manuals

Learning Management Systems

or Student Information Systems or Virtual Learning Environment

Moodle - course management system for educators to create effective online learning sites (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://moodle.org (GPL)

Moodle modules and plugins

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=6009 (Free)

Moodle Documentation

http://docs.moodle.org/en/

Moodle - Teacher Documentation

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teacher_documentation

Moodle Tutorials

http://www.moodletutorials.org/

ATutor - learning content management system for educators (platform independent)

http://www.atutor.ca (GPL)

Bodington - Virtual Learning Environment/LMS (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://bodington.org/ (Apache License)

Claroline - Free Learning Management System (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.claroline.net/ (GPL)

Dokeos - Elearning and course management web application (Windows)

http://www.dokeos.com/ (GPL)

Dotlrn - Elearning and course management web application (Windows)

http://www.dolrn.com/ (GPL)

eFront - Flexible eLearning 2.0 LMS/LCMS capable of fullfiling most learning needs (Windows)

http://www.efrontlearning.net/ (GPL)

OLAT - Elearning and course management web application (Windows)

http://www.olat.org/ (GPL)

OpenAdmin - School Administration Program (Windows)

http://richtech.ca/openadmin/ (GPL)

OpenSIS - Functional student information system which is easy of use and administrate (Windows, Linux)

https://eduforge.org/projects/opensis/ (GPL)

Sakai - Online Collaboration and Learning Environment requires Java SE, Tomcat, Maven & MySQL (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.sakaiproject.org/ (Educational Community License)

SchoolTool - Simple turnkey student information system, including demographics, gradebook, attendance, calendaring and reporting for schools (Windows, Linux)

http://www.schooltool.org/ (GPL)

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