Well, Elgg is a good framework for education. Using the right tools, you can get your students network up and running:
- CSV user Upload Plugin
To upload all of your students and avoid user registration
- Groups Plugin
To have classrooms and such
- Groups Tool Plugin
To moderate the groups.
Rodolfo Hernandez
Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison
Kari, I have been where you are. I started 8 months ago looking for a CMS that would help me create a specialty social network. It's basically down to Buddypress or Elgg. I am trying to make Elgg work. I'm just not comfortable with Buddypress for what I'm trying to build. I tried so many CMS, probably 150. Some cost too much, some are too hard to work with, some have a poor admin interface, some are free but the add-ons cost too much. Joomla has Community Builder which is not free. I'm not using it because I just can't acquire a good feel for Joomla. I researched and decided that Community Builder (and Joomla) has too many reports of unreliability and unnecessary difficulty, and costs are high. Elgg is very solid and I have a good feel for it, and I'm still learning. Elgg is free as are the plugins and has a welcoming and helpful community. I'll probably hire one of the Elgg plugin makers to customise Elgg for me, you might think about that yourself. Elgg is extremely easy to theme and has many different types of plugins. It's a very positive statement that after 8 months of research and testing, I'm working with Elgg. It's greatness is very subtle. You could try Mahara or Moodle. I have chosen Elgg. You could look at some sites powered by Elgg here -http://elgg.org/powering.php. Good luck to you.
That was a quick response, thank you. Team Webgalli, it's good to see that this is related towards what I want the site to do, rather than force something to do something that it isn't designed to do like Josephs experience. I know about Community Builder, and it seemed to be very complex.
rjcalifornia, it's good that this uses plugins and thanks for suggesting. I'll setup a host, see how it all goes.
Thank you all. Will keep you updated.
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