Comments on: Moodle's Muscles Are Too Much

By: Ed Tech in Review | Stick in the Sand

Ed Tech in Review | Stick in the Sand — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:54:50 +0000

[...] around on Edmodo. They’ve revamped their service and I think it’s outstanding and vastly superior to Moodle as course management software for 21st century teaching. Try blogging. Trial: I think we have to set up a blogging project with [...]

By: Braddo

Braddo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:51:45 +0000

Interestingly, my students also say Edmodo is like FB, even though, as you say, it’s not really so.

Glad to hear the folks there are approachable–I need to talk to them about their grading piece.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Learn Teach Tech

Learn Teach Tech — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:44:31 +0000

In the grad school class I teach, we have to use Blackboard. It’s complicated and the feature set is huge. I think the school has done a great job of modifying it for use. We recreate it every semester and the students have amazing work on this platform. However, these are all adult learners.

I tried to use Moodle. It was too much work. The learning curve is huge for something that I’m not required to use.

Then I found Edmodo (http://edmodo.com). Easy. Low learning curve and the students compare it to Myspace and Facebook (even though it is not like either of those). I love that it is created for education and the people behind it are so easily accessbile (twitter.com/zemote).

Just my two cents.

By: Braddo

Braddo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:19:57 +0000

I did some due diligence before trying moodle–it seemed to come out ahead of Blackboard, as in this comparison. Moodle is also free.

But in any case, they both seem to be top-heavy. I wonder if their rising popularity comes from them giving schools a feeling that they have taken big steps toward web 2.0 (or whatever we want to call the phenomenon) when in fact all they have done is electronically replicate the traditional school structure of teacher as gatekeeper.

But I’ll have another look at Balckboard anyway. And I’ll give ATutor a spin, too.

Thanks for the comment and tip.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:36:46 +0000

Interesting.. I like Moodle, have used it for several years now. I like building a course and then modifying it to handle changes that happen from year to year.

If you think Moodle is difficult, you should see what Blackboard is like.

However, I do not like the text base interface, ATutor’s interface is easier to use and work with. But then, not many know about ATutor.