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Jul 06

LMS hosting guide

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This post is continuation of “How to create and manage your academic or community website” article. In this one we will focus on the most popular free open source applications that you can use in order to create an e-Learning, school, academic or e-campus website with online lectures and other cool and helpful tools. We will review the most interesting tools and modules/ extensions that those application offer. Hence, you will get a brighter idea on which LMS is the one suitable for the online project you’re planning to start.

For those who consider themselves as new to LMS, we would like to shed some light on the meaning under the abbreviation LMS. A Learning Management System (LMS) is a software through which you can deliver learning content and resources to students, manage trainings, monitor students participation and assess their performance. LMS is very often used by large enterprises for their employees within the organization in order to monitor the effectiveness of company education and trainings. You can use various tools for organizing the online learning environment of your website, such as: competency management, certifications, succession planning, skills-gap analysis, virtual live classes and resource allocation (venues, rooms, textbooks, instructors, etc.). Students on your LMS web site are enabled to use interactive features such as threaded discussions, discussion forums and video conferencing.

Find below the table showing some of the main tools/ features that an LMS should offer. If the box is empty, that means that the feature is either not offered at the moment or it is in “coming soon” status. For further
detailed information on the functionality/ addons provided by these applications, please refer to the links
given below – we are sure you will find them helpful when making your mind which LMS application is the right for you.

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This table compares the features of one of the most popular LMS applications (Moodle, Doceos, Atutor, Claroline, Docebo and JoomlaLMS). Still, you can review some other e-learning solutions on our LMS Hosting page.

In case you are not sure which one to choose, start with the one that offers the greatest number of features you need for your project. Then in time, if you feel this is not the right LMS application for you, you can change it with another one. At TMDHosting all that applications are provided with a pack of free services such as: Free installation and configuration, Free module installation, Free theme change. For more information on our LMS hosting services, feel free to contact us at anytime.

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Apr 14

Claroline hosting

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Although many applications meet the functionality required to create and administrate an online learning website most of them fail when it comes to user-friendly interface and easy site navigation.

A very important factor to consider in building your e-learning education website is that it will be used by students or other visitors interested in the courses or information published on your website. Thus, your website should be as easy as possible for navigation and content management. Additionally, a LMS platform should be powerful, yet simple to use in order to save you valuable time to actually create your content instead of struggling in the numerous menus and tools.

To meet this demand TMDHosting created an optimal hosting environment for Claroline learning management system. Claroline is a Web Based Course Management System which allows teachers (professors or lecturers) to create and administer course websites for schools and universities through a browser in just a few clicks.

Teacher on Claroline only needs to be familiar with his/her favorite browser. They will be asked to type text in forms, to click on OK and to prepare locally on their own computer quality documents to be uploaded on the website. Using the powerful tools available in the course management page you can easily create different assignments, notifications or exercises in additional to your e-learning materials. Detailed list of the key features of Claroline are available on their official webste.

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Claroline support documents in any format (PDF, HTML, Office, Video). Additionally, you can create public or private discussion forums where your students may assists to each other in the learning process.

For detailed tour of the Claroline functionality you may review our step by step text tutorial as well as the video tutorials available.

If you are looking for a professional hosting environment on which you can start your building your e-learning website using Claroline you may review our Claroline hosting package.

If you need professional assistance to choose your Claroline hosting, please do not hesitate to contact our representatives via our live chat.

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Feb 20

How to create and manage your academic or community website

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Or some essential tips to learn and have fun with classmates and friends.

Have you ever thought to make a website that would help your classmates and professors keep track of lectures, homework and curriculum activities? If this sounds boring to you let me explain how to turn your web page into the coolest and most visited site your school has ever had.

First and most important element about your community website is your content. Web content consists of all documents, data, applications, images, audio and video files that you publish on your web page. It is crucial that you update regularly your website content and publish information that is interesting to your readers. For example, if you are building an academic website you can speak to your teacher about his/hers lectures and ask permission to publish them online, where everyone can read them at home. You can also find out which are your classmates’ favorite books, games, and movies and ask them to write short reviews. Or you can start up a competition and publish the best school essays so everyone can log in, read them and vote. The best ideas about your website content you will find around yourself by asking friends what they like to read and learn more about. Your content is also a key element of your web page because search engines can index text easily and if the information is close to what a searcher is seeking it can be delivered as a site for the seeker of information. This will eventually result into growing number of visits to your site and high search engine ranking.

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