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.
@michaelc
There is LON-CAPA, but it’s horribly dated and a serious pain to run and administer, and requires getting authenticated into their network to be able to see other collections. It broke ground in the early days of randomized physics homework.
I mention it to show how people cared about this, but the magnitude of the problem is large.
What parts are you after? Sometimes simple tools strung together can get you a long way.
@michaelc
In fact, I think that’s the better model for FOSS: some basic toolkit to do authentication, and a whole bunch of web tools on top of it.
For example, an email address that dumps PDFs in an assignment folder so you can grade them with tablet and pen; a grade sheet that shows students their current grade. Latex scripts to build assignments out of problem libraries. I had a bunch of these.
.. but it was all hacky and bespoke, nothing unified or documented.
Michael J. Coffey
Three plus or minus five