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An Open Source Alternative to Blackboard?

Posted by Cliff on from the educational-options dept.

mandrake*rpgdx asks: "The college I work for is looking into creating an all in one online system for teachers and students to be able to take tests, give online courses and do other daily tasks. They are currently looking into the Blackboard system. Is there an FOSS alternative that I could suggest using at their next meeting?"

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  1. Blackboard is open source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Blackboard is Perl-based project, so the sources are there, not compiled or anything.

    Like many open source developers do (google for SCO Group), you could just copy-paste their code and then claim you invented your own class management system when you were a student in Finland.