The course homepage is where students will land when they first access your course. You can customize the homepage and course navbar in a variety of ways to make sure your students have access to ...

Course-management systems -- or collaborative-learning environments, to use the term Sakai’s developers prefer -- have come a long way in the last few years, and their role on our campuses has ...

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.

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.

When professors try a learning-management system that promises to improve teaching, it “really encloses space, and it encloses the possibility of the Web,” he says. Mr. Groom charges so-called ...

Delete any content not being used in your course. This can include duplicate files or modules, outdated content, undeployed quizzes and inaccessible documents.

EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit group that promotes the use of information technology in education, provided a definition of course-management systems in a paper on the topic prepared in 2003 by the group ...

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 ...