Mastodawn

Is there any fedi-friendly(ish), selfhost-able, foss-like, online course software that's better than Moodle? I know Moodle is out there but don't want to faff about with it if there's a better software I can put on my site and offer classes.

Edit: Nothing against Moodle per se, but looking for alternatives *like* it so I can assess options.

#education #edtech #selfhost

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afreytes 🇵🇷Mar 17

@michaelc Been a while since I kept up with ecourseware/elearning... but I feel like BlackBoard and MicroSlop Learn (or whatever it was called) killed any innovation happening in that space years ago.

But I hope to be way wrong. And I would love to know if something new and worthwhile has sprung up.

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Michael J. Coffey

@afreytes Yeah, I've used Blackboard and Moodle and Canvas and they were all...serviceable. But they all felt like I needed to shoehorn what I wanted to do into a ill-fitting template. And I don't know enough about all the back-end things necessary to attempt making my own the way I want it.