I currently have a working site where the user goes to a WP page that simply lists the courses. The links take the user to the wbt module and then to a link for a quiz. If the user passes the quiz, the results are automatically put into a mysql database and are also emailed to whatever email address you designate.

I would like to enhance this system using a simple Wordpress LMS.

I have a wish list for such a wordpress LMS (not necessarily in the right order):

- A login and separate page(s) for each user.
- A way to incorporate test results in each users page (in my case I would tap into the quiz results database to get course data and test results data).
- A way to schedule courses and communicate a course schedule to each user.
- A way to remind students (Employees) that courses are overdue.
- A way to keep track of courses taken and courses needed for each user.
- A way to easily add/change username and login information for larger companies with hundreds of Employees, including batch importing of login data for new systems.

If anyone is interested in participating in some kind of user group to collectively work on a project like this, please email me at grantmaker@juno.com.

I’m thinking of setting up a WP site as a kind of clearing house for ideas, programming solutions, etc. Whatcha think?

Thanks,

JR

i’ve been looking at a different way to use blogs in the elearning environment and i’ve found that it’s not that difficult to tie the 2 together.

so i wrote a simple php page and put in in the in the wp app dir. it gets some blogApp.user info and uses it to build a launch request to my LMS. it’s a little like deep linking, but in this case the LMS user authentication is automatic.

i can also do the same thing the other way around;
i build a SCO and imported it into the LMS, it’s an html page that uses the SCORM api to get learner info.
it builds a post request that is sent to a php page on wordpress that creates the wp user and/or logs them in.

next i’m going to play with passing bit’s of data back to the lms so that actual work from the blog can be captured/measured.

for now, i’ve got:
launch a course from the blog
go to the blog from the LMS

it opens things up for some interesting applications.

A site that caters to such setups, like http://edublogs.org would probably be a much better choice.

Also considering that David Wiley is talking about custom themes and plugins, he may not be aware of what wp.com can do as those things are not available over at wp.com unless you buy into their VIP program which costs hundreds of dollars a month.

I use TurnItIn.com to receive and return assignments, and to maintain the gradebook. TurnItIn has an excellent authentication system, and I would rather not keep student data on my own web server.