LMS Applications and Features

Learn More About Open Source Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Click on any of the featured LMS below to further review its features!

• Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

  It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.

• ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Management System (LMS) used to develop and deliver online courses.

  Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, develop custom themes to give ATutor a new look, and easily extend its functionality with feature modules.

  Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, easily import prepackaged content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an accessible, adaptive, social learning environment.

• Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.

  Omeka makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.

• eFront is a modern learning system, bundled with key enterprise functionality ranging from skill-gap analysis and branch management to tailor-made reports.

• Chamilo is a fully-fledged e-learning system. Get your teachers and trainers up and teaching in no time. Some of our users report a 1/5 ratio in training time compared to the most famous open-source LMS to get them ready.

• Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web.

  Translated into 35 languages, Claroline has a large worldwide users and developers community.

• Dokeos is an elearning and course management web application. It provides all the features needed for e-learning and blended learning management : From Authoring to Reporting. Dokeos supports many different kinds of learning and collaboration activities.

  Teachers/trainers can create, manage and publish their courses through the web. Students/trainees can follow courses, read content or participate actively through groups, forums, chat.

• eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams.

  It also features a database where you can store any kind of objects (think antibodies, plasmids, cell lines, boxes, etc…) It is accessed via the browser by the users.

• Forma LMS is an open-source, web-based elearning platform (Learning Management System – LMS), used to manage and deliver online training courses.

  Designed for corporate training, born to fit your company needs and processess. Easy integration with any intranet software, extend functionalities with a wide range of plugins.

  Forma is developed by a network of companies, with a strong and active community.

• Gibbon is free, open source software: its flexible design gives schools complete control and freedom.

  Gibbon collates student information, helping teachers to understand, contact, find and help their students.

  It allows teachers to plan, teach, collect, assess and return work in one streamlined process. It is built by teachers, with the primary purpose of aiming to solve problems common to all schools.

• TCExam is a FLOSS system for electronic exams (also know as CBA – Computer-Based Assessment, CBT – Computer-Based Testing or e-exam) that enables educators and trainers to author, schedule, deliver, and report on quizzes, tests and exams.

• ILIAS is a powerful Open Source Learning Management System for developing and realising web-based e-learning.

  The software was developed to reduce the costs of using new media in education and further training and to ensure the maximum level of customer influence in the implementation of the software.

• Xerte Online Toolkits is a server-based suite of tools for content authors.

  Elearning materials can be authored quickly and easily using browser-based tools, with no programming required.

  Xerte Online Toolkits is aimed at content authors, who will assemble content using simple wizards.

• openSIS is a commercial grade, secure, scalable & intuitive Student Information System from OS4ED.

  openSIS is a new paradigm in student management software – it is all about the student.

  openSIS focuses on capturing relevant data at source and helps administration to monitor progress and remediate deficiencies to retain students and increase their achievements.