Course Syllabus

Because moodle has abandoned so many of its installed client base with the release of moodle version 2.0, it’s seems to be the right time to look at the alternatives.
Moodle has only about 10% of the on-line education market.
“Moodle has been in a downward spiral for a few years” – educhalk.org

ATutor ver. 2.0 PHP 5 meg tar.gz
Claroline ver. 1.10 PHP 5 meg tar.gz
Canvas ver. 1.x RUBY 5 meg tar.gz
Sakai ver. 2.7 JAVA 31 meg tgz
Ilias ver. 4.1 PHP 94 meg zip

long-running, severe, grading problems never fixed:
When a student does not complete a lesson (ex: due to time limit) their grade is improperly calculated. If a lesson is worth 10 points and the student only answers 2 questions of those 10 and the 2 are correct, they receive 2/2 * 10 or 10 points rather than 2 points.
known problem since Nov.28,2006 still not fixed, not even assigned to anyone to be fixed. … 4 yrs later Mar.10,2011. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-7706

“All of my lessons were working fine in v1.8 and now none of the grading is working. I did not adjust any settings previously and now a lesson that a student earns 3/3pts on = 3% instead of the previous amount of 100%. I can adjust the Max to 100 and that just makes the assignment 100pts = 100%. My grades are averaged by Total Pts/Total possible and do not want to give every lesson 100pts. There must