"Jansen, J." wrote:
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Hello Zope people,
I'm involved (as a educational developer) in a team to set up a e-learning environment for the Koning Willem I College in the Netherlands. We did some little experience with Zope (by Kees Roozendaal with the help from Kees de Brabander from the Leiden University). What pleases us (of course) is the fast, flexible and free way of building. I've compared some existing e-learning surroundings and now we have to make the choice and try to get the green light from our board of directors. Part of comparisional and part of immediate knowledge we do feel for Zope, but as a non ICT-expert I woulde like to have some answers/confirmations about the following items:
-is it easily possible to build a learning item bank and to recall the (labeled) learning-topics (for chancing or transfer)?
Yes, you may want to use the ZCatalog for this.
-is it easily to make an input option for student-data from the college registration system?
Yes, but that may require some work
-is student routesequency and -tracking (and gradebookfaclity) to make?
idem
-what about getting help?
what about it ;-) But seriously. Please check out the ZSchool site (http://www.zschool.org - it seems to be down at the moment) which is dedicated to making a more comprising educational system for zope. There is also a list dedicated to the development of a zope educational system. It is called zope-edu (zope-edu@sicfa.org). I do not have the subscription address here. I cc-ed this mail to the zope-edu list. Perhaps someone there could give you more information.
and the most important: -other systems are claiming to work with AICC, IMS or CMI-standards what about Zope?
There has been some discussion on the zope-edu list about this. You may want to look in the discussion archives about it. Compliance with these shouldn't be too big a problem as far as I'm able to understand them ;-/. If it's just about producing an XML representation of your Zope site (as I understood them), it will be no problem. As yet the IMS only seems to be a system for metadata representation,which will be easy to accomplish in Zope (they have much larger ambitions, but that will take a little while to accomplish -like in 2050 at the rate they're going). Rik Hoekstra