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[dustineichler]

LMS = Learning Management System

Blackboard hurts Universities because it's overly expensive and unintuitive for the price.

This new site looks great. I worked on http://moodle.org/ back in the day which is a great opensource alternative. It's now deployed in most if not all California State Universities. This is a great space to work in.

[spoondan → dustineichler]

It's now deployed in most if not all California State Universities.

Most of the CSU campuses are still using Blackboard. MOODLE is used by around 6 of the 23 campuses and is being piloted by a few others.

[dustineichler → spoondan]

this article says different.

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/11/csu-system-adop...

although I think http://www.moodlerooms.com/ is slightly different.

[dustineichler → dustineichler]

sick. the lms app is built on rails. https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms