Blackboard or Moodle at UC

[anotherdayattheforum]

@GOPwantsUnot2think: you obviously know nothing about Moodle.

[GOPwantsUnot2think]

You should consider something else. Moodle does not scale to size. The Moodle issues will be back office and very expensive. Pretty face of Moodle and the fact she is easy means she likely has a communicable disease. Beware - look to Switzerland for a scaleable Web2.0 solution.

[Lansab]

Why on earth, websterb4 do you want to do Moodle development? It is great as it is! Why throw away money when you don't need to????

[derekcx]

I guess it comes down to what you know. We have some cool features in Interact we have used now for several years and they are embedded in the culture - like a dedicated file sharing and commenting area, drop boxes, self enrolling groups, ticker/invitation system in the forums, users being able to upload images into posts via their own file area, commentable blogs, sharable content between courses, a good editor with easier multimedia management etc.  Makes things much easier for all involved.

[derekcx]

See below . . These will not be too much of a hassle to get sorted for Moodle, and maybe even into the core. That's why we do development. :-) I figure in a year we will have these features sorted

[Mohi]

Dude,what is Moodle all about ? but yeah, Blackboard looks kinda boring and takes time to load....

[herman5050]

I hate blackboard with a passion!! Its clunky and cumbersome. I vote for anything else... ie nothing, just put everything back on the k drive and enable remote desktop for everyone like the good ole days... last year.

[CroNuS19785]

lol, that was great, I might even give it a look

[mikecogh]

Moodle is improving all the time. What I like about Moodle is that it mirrors the way teachers assembles materials for the classroom. It works really well for classes that are web-enhanced or blended. Teachers understand it. And more recently with the addition of its 'book module', Moodle has the ability to contain and display sequentially large amounts of pre-loaded content - previously the big boy's (Bb, WebCT) forte. Moodle now has that covered. Go Moodle. (Not to mention the patent farce.)

[redcamarocruiser]

how do they compare cost-wise?

[websterb4]

UC uses the cheap version of blackboard now (Campus Edition, ex-WebCT), about US$40K. Moodle licensing is free but we'd spend the same money on moodle development so we'd hopefully get a system that does exactly what we want.

In the short term Moodle costs more - the pain of changing systems and shifting courses over, but Blackboard is changing a lot too as WebCT and Bb are merged... and they could remove the cheap option.

[leighblackall]

That was great! Really great. I'd ditch them both though and just start using Youtube and a few other very cool, free, popular services. Wikieducator?