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Sarah Noll Wilson said:
Right now all of the buzz with Open source is Moodle. I've never had any experience with Moodle but all the articles discuss how easy it is...am I missing something? The website is super confusing and it seems I need more developer skills than I have to understand? I am thinking that I may be overlooking something with Moodle, but at this point I have not been able to effectively launch this on my computer. I wanted to get your thoughts on which systems you have used both proprietary and open source. Which ones would you recommend?
I'm researching like crazy and trying to demo as much as I can, but would like to get the perspective of users.
If your goal is to host it yourself then there is a slight learning curve to that. I remember when I first installed it without any prior knowledge it took me about two days and a few breaks to calm down when things didn't go as planned. I have found that the documentation for installing under all kinds of circumstances is easily available with a little searching.
To answer your questions about why it might be superior, I've just started blogging about that. You can see my first (and second) post about it here: http://mrjonsclasses.blogspot.com/2013/03/moodle-vs-insert-lms-part-i.html I'll likely have even more to say about it in the next few days as I have time to write. At this moment, I don't think there's anything out there that is even close. Not to mention, if you have any courses you'd like to start with you could always see if you can find one on MoodleShare.
Hope that helps,
Jon