Best Online Educational Programs

What to look for in Self Hosted Educational Software

Learning Management Systems

Virtual Learning Environments

Course Management Systems

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Educational Programs

The world of education has always been influenced by technological developments. Educational Programs are designed to manage, distribute and track employee training. They are often used in corporate settings to deliver online courses and track employee progress. However, they can also be used in other ways, such as to provide compliance training or customer education. Even students and their parents can visit a central website for a school or district to get the information they need.
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Learning Management Systems

LMS's to name one has proved to be beneficial not only for educational institutions but also for both corporate and not-for-profit organizations. These web based learning environments are innovative platforms that enables online education by providing a framework to create, manage, and deliver learning content. Learning Management Systems help to create, adopt, administer, distribute and manage all of the activities where students can effectively access information related to their subjects and course.

Course Management Systems

CMS's are programs that are focused and sometimes expressly built just for educators and those working in large institutions. Much like with any Course Management Systems, there are content creators on the back end, and end users on the front end. The teachers and administrators can create content in the form of grades and progress reports.

Virtual Learning Environments

VLE's are online platform that enables educators to create interactive learning environments to improve the learning experience. Many higher education English speaking institutions have begun adopting Virtual Learning Environments for their many benefits. They are also well established in educational institutions as a means to structure, manage and deliver learning activities and content. They are recognized for having strengths in student tracking and managing online assessments.

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Moodle

Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP. Moodle is used to create custom websites with online courses and allows for community-sourced plugins. As an E-learning tool, Moodle developed a number of features[14] now considered standard for learning management systems, such as a calendar and gradebook. Plugins, custom graphical themes, mobile responsive web design, and a Moodle mobile app are available to customize each individual's experience on the platform.
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Chamilo

Chamilo is a free software e-learning and content management system, aimed at improving access to education and knowledge globally. The Chamilo project aims at ensuring the availability and quality of education at a reduced cost, through the distribution of its software free of charge, the improvement of its interface for 3rd world countries devices portability and the provision of a free access public e-learning campus.
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ILIAS

ILIAS offers a lot of features to design and run online-courses, create learning content, offer assessments and exercises, run surveys and support communication and cooperation among users. It supports learning content management and tools for collaboration, communication, evaluation and assessment. Another important characteristic of ILIAS is the repository. All learning content but also forums or chat rooms, tests and surveys, as well as plugged in virtual classrooms or other external tools are created, offered and administrated in the repository and its categories
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TCExam

TCExam is a FLOSS system for electronic exams (also know as CBA – Computer-Based Assessment, CBT – Computer-Based Testing or e-exam) that enables educators and trainers to author, schedule, deliver, and report on quizzes, tests and exams. TCExam automates all assessment phases: authoring, scheduling, delivering, and reporting. It's easy to use and do not require expensive hardware to run, nor additional commercial software. Users connect to the TCExam system using a common Web-browser like Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer.
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Omeka

Omeka or Omeka Classic is a free, open-source content management system for web based collections. This allows its users to publish and exhibit cultural heritage objects, and extend its functionality with themes and plugins. Being a lightweight solution in comparison to traditional institutional repository software Omeka has a focus on display and uses an unqualified Dublin Core metadata standard.
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RosarioSIS

RosarioSIS is a school management and teaching tool which offers better security, availability and is responsive. This app is mainly a Student Information System which helps in managing bulk data, create reports and make better decisions. Some features include students demographics, grades, scheduling, attendance, student billing, discipline and food service modules for school management
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Gibbon

Gibbon is a web based flexible school management system that can be used to solve real time problems of teachers, students, parents, and educators. Gibbon allows seamless planing, teaching, and assessment for both teachers and students. It collates every student information, so that every teacher has a clear understanding of each student details such as each student’s attendance, grades, and performance.
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Forma LMS

Forma LMS is an open-source learning management system designed to help businesses provide corporate training to employees based on company needs and processes. Designed for corporate training, born to fit your company needs and processes. Easy integration with any Intranet software, extend functionalities with a wide range of plugins. Key features include online courses, video conferencing, certification management, custom reporting, blended courses and user management.
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WordPress Educational Plugins

TP Education

A plugin to add custom post type ( Events, Courses, Classes, Excursions, Team, Testimonial, Affiliation ) and it’s required meta fields for educational sites. This plugin is dedicated for educational themes.
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Academy LMS

the ultimate next-generation, fastest WordPress LMS plugin, will improve your online learning experience. Its seamless integration with any WordPress site allows you to easily create and sell engaging online courses.
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Tutor LMS

Tutor LMS is a complete, feature-packed, and robust WordPress LMS plugin to easily create & sell courses online. All the features of this learning management system hit all the checkpoints for a full-fledged online course marketplace.
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MasterStudy LMS

Free WordPress LMS Plugin MasterStudy is the all-in-one tool for any eLearning business. Masterstudy WordPress LMS plugin can turn any WordPress website into a professional online platform with all the necessary eLearning & LMS features.
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LMS by Masteriyo

Masteriyo is a WordPress LMS plugin designed for both educators and students, making it easy to create and deliver engaging online courses. It has a user-friendly interface and many features, such as course creation tools, quizzes, assignments, progress tracking, and payment integration.
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LearnPress

You can view the courses you have taken, finished or wanted to learn inside of wonderful profile page of BuddyPress with LearnPress buddyPress plugin.
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WP OER

WP OER is a free plugin which allows you to create your own open educational resource repository on any WordPress website. Why pay for a proprietary system with limited options? WP OER is customizable, easy to use, and free.
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ProctoPress

Online Exam Proctoring plugin is a customizable tool that helps educational institutions and corporations monitor candidates during online exams. The plugin offers features like browsing limitation, real-time monitoring, candidate verification, and integration with popular LMS plugins.
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WP Course Manager

WordPress Course Manager – a WordPress Plugin to handle courses, lecturers and a schedule of dates when courses are held with one or more lecturer(s).
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Educare

This powerful results management plugin is built to easily manage institute, academy, or student results online. Designed to be universally adaptable, this solution seamlessly integrates with result systems across the world.
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WP Education

WP Education is a WordPress Plugin for Elementor which helps you to show your Education based online sites. This plugin is fully responsive and mobile friendly and also easy to customize. You can create unlimited Education custom post type
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Academy Elementor Addons

Academy Elementor Add-ons is a WordPress plugin that integrates Academy LMS with the renowned Elementor Page builder. It gives you the freedom to design any type of eLearning website with your own design preferences. Construct your own Academy LMS course layout and style. This add-on offers 3 widgets for all the pages and 20+ widgets for the course single/details page of the course with template builder.
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