Instead we hope the open-source nature of the code will let us break out of the constraints imposed by vendors, who supply only certain tools in their course-management systems.

Hoping to develop a more flexible way of building World Wide Web pages for their online courses, a group of universities has begun designing a course-management system that will be free and whose ...

It’s near-impossible to think about course management systems (CMS) without thinking about innovation, collaboration, and the sharing of ideas across institutions and even from vendor to vendor. Yet, ...

The course management systems and the learning experiences that we design for our students shape our students' learning. A focus on exploration, problem solving, collaboration with other students, ...

A growing number of K-12 educators are using the technology to share assignments, homework, classroom assessments, and other information with students and their parents.

Scott Fawcett's popular DECADE scoring system has possibly made golf easier by turning it into what he calls "a math-based decision problem.” But has he taken the fun out of the game in the process?

Some platforms also enable students to pay for a course, which might be included in the CMS itself, or “pass through” to the university’s online e-commerce system. Typically, access for both teachers ...

Canvas is a cloud-hosted learning management system (LMS), powered by Instructure, that allows Northwestern instructors and students to deliver course materials, submit assignments and tests, view ...

Learning Management System: (LMS) Faculty members also may use a Web-based learning management system (the college currently uses Lyceum). Bates College considers its learning management system an ...

Data Management. For students to access course material, the CMS must allow for the creating of classes, as well as the assigning of one or more instructors and a number of students to that class.