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Syllabus

Purpose and features of Content Management Systems; 12 ATAR 


Background

A Content Management System (CMS) is web-based software (or website) that allows users to interact with a website for a specific purpose. Used in education. Similar to Learning Management Systems.

Details - Content Management System

  • can provide a course based website
  • all content stored in one place
  • educators can provide course outlines
  • educators can provide assignments, glossaries, quizzes and more
  • users can login to participate
  • users can get course outlines, assignments, quizzes and more
  • users can participate in Web 2.0 type discussion forums
  • users can post assignments
  • commonly used in high schools as an intranet for students to collect work, or submit assignments
  • Moodle is a common content management system. It has 46,698 active websites as of July 2015.
  • Other CMS include Blackboard, D2L , Instructure Canvas, seqta
  • Also called a course management system if the focus is on courses, like Moodle.

Alternative

  • Learning Management Systems (LMS)
  • a training system
  • can track progress of individuals through a learning pathway

  


 For You To Do

  1. Create some graphics that show ideas for a CMS

 Learn more from wikipedia LMS, CMS 
 
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