On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 12:42, Grainge, Derek wrote:
It depends on how large the site might become. Moodle would be good on a relatively small scale, and you are trading off costs: developers costs money by the hour as well, and even if that's you or existing staff you should cost it.
I'm installing a product called 'firefly' which originated from St Paul's School, and is now being managed by a separate small company. Why? We use MS servers. Firefly authenticates to NT/200* servers, and integrates with active directory, where we can store pupil/staff/group data. Minimal administration costs therefore. It's written in c# .net and though the code belongs to the company, it's possible to customise page content to integrate with any external database (and you can run PHP/mysql on an IIS server if you feel so inclined).
Just for reference I run a Moodle install used by about 1600 students and staff all of which auth off active directory via ldap. Basically it took me 2 hours to get the install working and how it's 0 administration as staff can create courses and all accounts are automatically created on first login with data populated from the active directory. -- Tim Fletcher Learning Technologies Manager - Parrs Wood Technology College tim@parrswood.manchester.sch.uk Tel: 0161 448 0361 Tim Fletcher C/O Parrs Wood Technology College Wilmslow Road Manchester M20 5PG