paulfl Posted June 13, 2011 Report Posted June 13, 2011 (edited) We've had Fronter for 3 years. Looking to replace with either Moodle or Frog. As e-Learning Manager my personal preference is Moodle. Our Headteacher favours Frog which worked brilliantly at his previous school. We've seen demos of both and they both have really good selling points. My view is to use something open source, with a large development/support community. Education changes so reapidly you need to be able to find new features/tools and plug-in new features and functionality quickly. In essence would you agree Mahara + Moodle = Frog? I've found red pen tool which also looks good, anyone got any comments. thanks Edited June 13, 2011 by paulfl
TheCrust Posted June 13, 2011 Report Posted June 13, 2011 Frog is based on open-source software. At the end of the day, whatever you plump for, your teaching staff will need to spend time creating lessons and resources to put into the VLE - so this needs to be factored in to the cost of procurement and makes the decision a bit more informed when you consider how much time it will take to put resources into a Moodle-based system compared to the same resources into Frog.
danIT Posted June 13, 2011 Report Posted June 13, 2011 I'd probably argue that Moodle + Mahara is superior to what Frog offers. I dont think Frog has anywhere near the same functionality as Mahara; as a portfolio tool. Does Moodle + Mahara = Frog, nope. Not in my opinion, choose the tool that best suits students and staff thats the real question you need to answer. Buy the solution which best addresses your goals and ideas, which do the students like which do staff like.
gshaw Posted June 13, 2011 Report Posted June 13, 2011 There's a free product similar to the red pen tool for Moodle here Home | Davodev (it's the uploadPDF activity)
johnpatrick Posted June 15, 2011 Report Posted June 15, 2011 Frog is based on open-source software. Is this Correct?
dsm Posted June 15, 2011 Report Posted June 15, 2011 Is this Correct? Frog servers are linux based, yes.
TheCrust Posted June 16, 2011 Report Posted June 16, 2011 (edited) ...and they use Apache, MySQL, ClamAV, Samba and Squid. Can't get more open source than that! Edited June 16, 2011 by TheCrust typo - shouldn't be working this late!
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