The document discusses a Brisbane meetup on Drupal LMS held on February 10, 2015, covering various learning management systems including Moodle and Blackboard Learn. It outlines the mission and philosophy of the Drupal LMS initiative, which focuses on providing an open-source, accessible educational solution and identifies the target audience and goals for its development. Additionally, it provides a roadmap for the project's development and integration with existing LMS platforms.

1. Drupal LMS
10 February 2015
Brisbane meetup

2. TOC
- Learning management systems
- Mission
- Philosophy
- Audience
- Goals
- Roadmap

3. LMS
Learning management system
- institution
- Content / course
- teacher, student
- Rosters, Grades, discussions, syllabus, collaboration, mail, chat ...

4. LMS
- moodle
- blackboard Learn
- google lms
- many many more

5. LMS Platforms
- https://www.coursera.org/
- https://www.edx.org/
- https://novoed.com/

6. LMS: moodle
- Open source
- last release: 2.8.3 (Feb 2, 2015)
- Original release: 1999
- Written in PHP
- Website: https://moodle.org/

7. LMS: blackboard Learn
- Proprietary
- last release: 9.1 (April 2010)
- Original release: 1998
- Written in Java
- Website: https://www.blackboard.com/
- Google “Blackboard learn”

8. LMS: blackboard Learn
2011: CourseSites, a free version of its Blackboard Learn and
Collaborate software
2012: “Blackboard's focus on acquisitions prevented the
company from fully focusing on their software products,
which has led to the continual introduction of additional
features, known as feature creep.” TechCrunch writer Rip
Empson

9. Drupal as LMS
ELMS (v6)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/elms
ELMS: Course Information System (v6 & 7)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/cis
ELMS: Massively Open Online Course (v6 & 7)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/mooc

10. Drupal as LMS
ELMS (v7)
- https://www.elmsln.org/
- https://btopro.wordpress.com/
- https://github.com/btopro/elmsln
Modules
- https://www.drupal.org/project/quiz (7203)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/course (646)
- https://www.drupal.org/project/achievements (269)
https://www.drupal.org/project/accessibility

11. Drupal as LMS Extension
integrations, i.e.
Pros Cons
- targeted goals - custom development
- separation - multiple systems
- Extra players
- Authentication

12. Drupal Lms
- Codename: project lantern
- Base: Drupal 8
- Initial funding and support by Technocrat
- Initial release: Drupal south 2015

13. mission
to provide Educational solution
- alternative
- Accessible
- RESPONSIVE
- community
- suite of tools

14. philosophy
- open source
- education-down approach
- developers-up approach
- No single client approach
- single solution approach

15. Audience
1. Edu community
2. users limited by current lms
3. new drupal users
4. Developers

16. Goals
1. Create alternative, not competition
2. edu-driven
3. outcome as set of
● Tools
● Profiles
● Modules

17. Roadmap
- Initial schema build on moodle
- Ability to migrate to-from moodle
- public website Release

18. Roadmap
0.0.1 > 0.1
- edu institution, teacher, student roles
- courses management
- foundation based theme

19. Roadmap
Q1 2015
- public website Release
- Release at drupalsouth
- Educational cloud

20. We want you
- Development
- Testing
- Documentation
- Ideas

21. References
Official Technocrat releases
- https://github.com/technocratau/DrupalLMS
Current working branch
- https://github.com/VladimirAus/DrupalLMS

22. QUESTIONS?
- http://www.technocrat.com.au/
- @Vladimiraus @tesdev
- http://www.slideshare.net/VladimirAus