WordPress Ideas » Topic: Idea: LearnPress - a WordPress based LMS!

Jen Mylo on "Idea: LearnPress - a WordPress based LMS!"

Jen Mylo — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:14:49 +0000

This is not a core suggestion, since it suggests building another product based on WP. I would suggest moving this conversation to the wp-edu mailing list, which is for talking about academic uses of WP. http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu

vinceang on "Idea: LearnPress - a WordPress based LMS!"

vinceang — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:19:02 +0000

I think this is a great idea and hope to see it to fruition. I have built my own proprietary LMS in ColdFusion so I have a fairly good idea of building an LMS. I have always thought that WordPress provides an excellent basis for an LMS. We should collaborate on this. One thought though: with content being data driven, I can't see it being SCORM compliant. However, I don't think it has to be SCORM compliant.

Gary Eckstein on "Idea: LearnPress - a WordPress based LMS!"

Gary Eckstein — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:41:15 +0000

WordPress MU would make the perfect basis for a great LMS! There are many single 'customer' GPL LMS solutions out there but none where multiple customers use a single install (like WordPress MU). I love WordPress and would use a WordPress LMS solution in a heartbeat!

Ronnie Burt on "Idea: LearnPress - a WordPress based LMS!"

Ronnie Burt — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:27:36 +0000

These are great ideas and I am working on a site, http://www.EdNook.com which creates and aggregates many of the plugins mentioned above, and more, for schools and teachers to use. I hope that it may be useful to some of you!

marcnewport on "Idea: LearnPress - a WordPress based LMS!"

marcnewport — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:11:38 +0000

Hi guys,
I might be able to help out on this.
I'm a developer/designer at a company that customizes lms's and makes scorm courses etc.
We use moodle (which has a horrible api to use and looks awful and outdated), we also use drupal (which is ok I guess). But I've recently been developing stuff with wordpress and find it slick and easy to use, and had this same thought of adding lms functionality to wordpress.

Saurabh Shukla on "Idea: LearnPress - a WordPress based LMS!"

Saurabh Shukla — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:23:20 +0000

I was thinking of the same. I have certain ideas. I can outline the whole procedure, the whole need and the program and the required inputs and the functionality.

I can also outline how I see this could be achieved and from what existing wordpress functionality.

I have certain examples across different already developed plugins.

I also have some content examples to work with.

The only problem is I'm too busy for some time to learn PHP. I'm still a trial-and-error-web-researched-with-no-clue-programmer.

If some programmers are in, I'll make sure I contribute to the conceptualisation and development of a learnpress or lpress or edpress or edexpress or whatever.

Please reply asap. I'll start posting as it is.

renwickcentre on "Idea: LearnPress - a WordPress based LMS!"

renwickcentre — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:18:00 +0000

Hi,

Currently we have:

BuddyPress - social networks, based on WordPress...
bbPress - forums, based on WordPress...
WordPress MU - multiple blogs, based on WordPress...

My idea is:

LearnPress - a Learning Management System based on WordPress!

Which would feature built-in-support for:

- Online quizzes and tests (similar to the functionality of the WP-Polls plugin perhaps?)
- Support for Learning Repositories, SCORM 2004 and advanced metadata
- Tracking student learning
- Allow students to create blogs
- Roles based on Student, Teacher, Principal, Content Author, Administrator
- Integration/Importing from other LMS such as Blackboard
- Forums (similar to BuddyPress' support for bbPress).

There are other open-source LMS's around such as Moodle, but an LMS based on WordPress would utilise WordPress' ease-of-use, collaborative community and clean UI. This could be the kick e-Learning needs!

Cheers,