2. CMS is a term which is commonly used in web
publishing nowadays. Its objective is to simplify the
creation and administration of online content such as
news, webshops, e-learning material.
Static vs. dynamic websites
3. Goals of using a CMS:
Simplify the online publication of electronic material (text, hypertext,
multimedia )
Separating content from presentation:
Content creation is facilitated by the system.
Formatting and layout considerations are taken care of by the
publishing templates.
Enforcing workflow processes (stages, user privileges, monitoring)
Case study: a news website:
Writers concentrate on content
Copy editors correct spelling, grammar, change style if necessary,
write headlines
Other editing tasks: adding pictures, links; approving the article
before publishing
Templates are applied automatically during publishing
4. In a CMS, webpages are
assembled from several self-
contained chunks called
content components by
authorized users + the CMS
system itself (automatization).
5. The smallest self-contained piece of information is the content
component; these content components are reusable (one content
component many articles/courses many readers/students).
Advantages:
- Reusability
- Personalization – if implemented: for example, a user can
choose to have only his portfolio of stocks / exchange rates /
weather forecast displayed in his version of a webpage (the
user’s perspective)
9. What is a LMS (Learning Management System)?
- LMS is a special-purpose CMS: an LMS's objective is to
simplify and automate the administration of learning/training
events within an organization.
- It helps students/employees to plan and track their learning
progress, and to
- communicate and collaborate with their peers.
- It also helps administrators to target, deliver, track, analyze,
and report on the learning status of students (who are
employees in many cases).
- LMSs may or may not help to directly create instructional
content. If not: standalone content creation tools like
Macromedia's Dreamweaver can be used to create content. If
so: see LCSMs.
10. The smallest self-contained piece
of instruction in the LMS is the
course itself.
Any given course is available to
one or more students.
Teachers can use functions not
available to students (they may
be able to assign students to
courses, change the courses,
inspect logs, etc.) → User-rights
Smallest self-contained pieces of
information: (reusable) learning
objects.
11. What is a LCMS (Learning Content Management System)?
LCMS is used to create, approve, publish, and manage e-
learning content.
A LCMS combines the administrative and management
features of a traditional LMS with the content creation and
personalized assembly options of a CMS.
Further reading: http://elacd.carnet.hr/index.php/LMS/LCMS
Editor's Notes
For example, let's consider a fictitious news website called news.hu. This news site has 100 reporters scattered all over the world. In order to avoid a publishing nightmare, there has to be some means to manage all the articles that the reporters send in each day.
Reporters just need to concentrate on delivering their content (e.g. by entering plain or HTML text directly into a web form which functions as a template) and not worry about layout considerations of their article like where the image will appear, how big the headlines will be, etc.
These are layout and presentation blueprints that would make sure that Reporter #25's article and Reporter #88's article have a consistent look and feel to them.
The articles sent in by the reporters are first approved by editors before publication. And when they are published, the articles are kept "live" for a particular period of time, after which they are backed up and archived.
