> "Current advice from DFES is that schools should not buy a VLE
individually but that they should bulk buy either through
> their LA or Regional Broadband Consortium. Home grown systems based on
'open source software', e.g. Moodle, were not to
> be preferred as they will not meet national requirements, they relied
on local expertise and will be incompatible with
> other systems for exchanging information. Also that families of
schools should use the same VLE to facilitate sharing of
> materials and work on transition projects."
Maybe my reading is different to you, I don't see "LEA advises against
Moodle". What I see is that the LEA telling you that DfES had advised
against X hundreds different "home grown" systems. I am guessing
different interfaces, different datasets, different accessibility
standards, different report formats. Most of these have little to do
with the software and lots to do with the implementation.
I have lost count of the great wizzy apps I have seen that do exactly
what the user wants that year but have not a single word of
documentation for how as opposed to how the tool it started from could
have worked. I know that this is largely good practice but hand on heart
who working on their own actually does the documentation as opposed to
what we tell the students they should do? I'll admit to that failing
despite good intentions every time I start a project.
Peter
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