At my institution we've been using a home grown system called SPIDER since 1998, built using PHP & mySQL. Its easily customisable, so we can add whatever features we want to it, when we want, and can tailor the system to meet the needs of our staff and students. It provides all the usual stuff (file, class, user mangement) as well as providing multi-tiered administrative control of classes, degrees and "clusters" [groups of related degrees]. It links in to our Oracle based MIS to get access to relevant student and class data, and uses LDAP to authenticate with our DS. Its user-centric, allowing users to customise the site to their needs (rather than course designers forcing their course/class design on the user) and classes are 'open access' - any registered user can access any class material on the system they want.
We currently have over 10,000 users, and it runs on a £3000 worth of hardware with plenty of resource to spare. Guest logins are available on the SPIDER development system.
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At my institution we've been using a home grown system called SPIDER since 1998, built using PHP & mySQL. Its easily customisable, so we can add whatever features we want to it, when we want, and can tailor the system to meet the needs of our staff and students. It provides all the usual stuff (file, class, user mangement) as well as providing multi-tiered administrative control of classes, degrees and "clusters" [groups of related degrees]. It links in to our Oracle based MIS to get access to relevant student and class data, and uses LDAP to authenticate with our DS. Its user-centric, allowing users to customise the site to their needs (rather than course designers forcing their course/class design on the user) and classes are 'open access' - any registered user can access any class material on the system they want. We currently have over 10,000 users, and it runs on a £3000 worth of hardware with plenty of resource to spare. Guest logins are available on the SPIDER development system.