Google Apps & Sites as an LMS

[dkg]

Greetings,I am part of a team at a seminary that is giving serious
consideration to using Google Apps and Sites as our LMS. Does anyone
know of other Higher Education institutions using Google resources to
construct an LMS?
If so, who are they?

Thanks, dg

[Karress Motley]

I my self have been very interested in using Google Apps as an LMS. I wish I could help you. But if you discover any info please let me know.
Thanks in advance.

[Ravindra Dastikop]

Ravindra Dastikop
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
SDM College of Engineering and Technology
Dharwad 580 002  India


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Hello Karress Motley/DG

 

I am not aware of any Google-based LMS. However for quiet some time, I have been an assorted set of Google service such as blog, docs, forms  translator ete to compose a  sort of LMS. Here are examples

 

http://empip.blogspot.com

 

http://mtechseminar2010.blogspot.com

 

For regular update on my experiments u may visit

 

http://wtlt.blogspt.com

 

regards

 

Ravindra Dastikop

http://dastikop.blogspot.com

[henrymp]

I think the challenges are:

> Grading Participation
> Organizing a class into a "Learning Path" with various applications linked together - finish a blog posting then go to a wiki, etc.
> Setting up a unified space for the class, with few distractions.

Thoughts?



On Aug 11, 9:56 pm, Ravindra Dastikop <ravindra.dasti...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ravindra Dastikop
> Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> SDM College of Engineering and Technology
> Dharwad 580 002  India
>
> Contact:
> Phone: 91 836 2447465
> Cell   : +91 99 808 73 130

> Email: ravindra.dasti...@gmail.com
>
> Bloghttp://dastikop.blogspot.com
>
> Twitter:http://twitter.com/dastikop
>
> Facebookhttp://facebook.com/ravindra.dastikop
>
> Profileshttp://google.com/profiles/ravindra.dastikop

>
> Additional Online presence
> Blogs:
>
> Technology
>
> Centre for Cloud Computinghttp://thecloudcomputing.blogspot.com/
>
> Cloud Computing for Educationhttp://cloud4education.blogspot.com
>
> Web Tools for Usehttp://winningwithweb.blogspot.com
>
> Personalhttp://dastikop.blogspot.com
>

> Departmenthttp://sdmworld.blogspot.com

>
> Hello Karress Motley/DG
>
> I am not aware of any Google-based LMS. However for quiet some time, I have
> been an assorted set of Google service such as blog, docs, forms  translator
> ete to compose a  sort of LMS. Here are examples
>
> http://empip.blogspot.com
>
> http://mtechseminar2010.blogspot.com
>
> For regular update on my experiments u may visit
>
> http://wtlt.blogspt.com
>
> regards
>

> Ravindra Dastikophttp://dastikop.blogspot.com

[John Ellingsworth]

The use of Forms, spreadsheets & scripting within the spreadsheet,
coupled wth Groups, Calendar, and Docs can be leveraged to create most
important services of an LMS. Having the resources in house to put it
all together is the biggest challenge.

Regards,

John Ellingsworth

[Ravindra Dastikop]

Yes John Google online resources are just means to be leveraged in building LM

 " Having the resources in house"  lends it self into two broad categorie of resources (1 having sufficeint IT infrastructure and broadband connectivity, this is anyway is available in increasing number of institutions, (2) faculty interested in and trained in using these resources ( Google form), well for this there are two ways - become a lead leaner and inspire them and secondly make it an integral part of learning

For instance following my extensive of web resources for teaching ( http://wtlt.blogspot.com) many of my colleagues showing interest and making small beginnings.

By making integral part of learning process, you may initiate faculty into this process. For instance, I am a faculty  incharge for a seminar in a course and I have made using an assorted set of google resources  it an integral part of preparing and delivering seminar. You may see here  http://mtechseminar2010.blogspot.com  ( each student is asked to set up a blog and post all seminar related progress there

 

regards

 

Ravindra Dastikop
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
SDM College of Engineering and Technology
Dharwad 580 002  India


Contact:
Phone: 91 836 2447465
Cell   : +91 99 808 73 130

Email: ravindra...@gmail.com

Blog
http://dastikop.blogspot.com

[DT]

Hello we have created an LMS in Google Apps called 'CourseDirector' and have taken on board a lot of the comments above. It tightly integrates with Apps, creating courses using 'sites', class discussions using 'groups' and also leverages 'docs' heavily. I'd be very keen to get your feedback and the Apps marketplace listing is below:

https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=3505+4013383145896954273

[Maisa]

I found the open source code: http://code.google.com/p/cloudcourse

if anyone has experienced it before please advise us.