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
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Create some graphics that show ideas for a CMS
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