ELMS

• What is ELMS?
• So why Drupal or more importantly, why not Moodle?
• Is there a Paas option to use ELMS?
• How long has this been around?
• Is it a project? or a distribution?
• Before we started recording, you mentioned the ELMS style guide. What is that?
• What was the D6 functionality?
• How has the functionality changed in D7?
• Why go the route of 10 different distributions instead of one?
  • How do they all work together? Can they share content or functionality?
• What are the D7 distributions?
  • ELMS: Course Information System
  • ELMS: Massively Open Online Course (MOOC)
  • ELMS: Collaborative learning
  • ELMS: Media
  • Ulmus Distribution (base distribution)
  • Planned for the future
    • ELMS: ICOR Distribution
    • ELMS: LAR Distribution
    • ELMS: CIS Compliance
    • ELMS: CIS Helpdesk
    • ELMS: Case based learning distro
• How did you get it to be accepted by the university? Especially with the GPL license?
• You mentioned that your are able to contribute back to Drupal in a way that is a bit different from most universities. Do you want to explain that a little bit?
• Why work directly in Education?

Use Cases

• Is this targeted primarily at Universities or K-12 districts?
• Do you know of any, or have a list of schools using it now?
• What’s in the pipeline for future development/functionality?

Questions from Twitter

• Eric Aitala
  What are your thoughts about MOOCs and their relevance in HigherEd?
• Rachel Lawson
  Interested in plans. Just about to migrate a site to d7 for Cardiff University Hospital that has CPD work on it... (Continuing Professional Development)

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This week Nedjo Rogers and Rosemary Mann join me to talk about their Open Outreach distribution.

Here's what we talked about

• What is open outreach?
• Why did you decide to create Open Outreach? (was it a personal need? client need?)
• What does Open Outreach do?
• What are some of the features included?
  • http://openoutreach.org/features
  • Are these using the apps model or another?
• Who is contributing to Open Outreach?
• How can groups get Open Outreach?

Use Cases

• Who is Open Outreach aimed at?
• What are some current projects and focuses?

What’s in the future?

• CRM functionality
• Compare External (CiviCRM) and internal (custom)

Questions from Twitter:

• @tgroff: What are the benefits/differences between using http://drupal.org/project/debut_member vs. CiviCRM roles sync?
• @tgroff: Does http://drupal.org/project/debut_member provide membership renewal, expiration, or renewal reminders?
• @tgroff: Mostly like to know more about the "debut" modules. ex: can I just install http://drupal.org/project/debut_bio on any site and use it? etc