A Reference LMS for the LM-Light Standard

January 11, 2007 at 6:13 pm · Filed under Training & Education

LM-Light LogoToday I posted a Reference LMS on the LM-Light website.

The Reference LMS is an example of an LMS that will support the LM-Light standard for WBT courses. It’s designed to allow you to test LM-Light courses and has the following basic functionality:

  1. Add, edit and delete student accounts.
  2. Add and delete courses.
  3. Monitor student progress.
  4. Launch courses, track progress (bookmarking & test scores, pass/fail status).
  5. Courses can be added in either zip or tar format (assumes that unzip is available on the Linux platform).

The Reference LMS is not intended as a production quality LMS and has the following limitations:

  1. Only 1 administrative account (always Student #1).
  2. Students are automatically subscribed to all courses.
  3. No e-mail tool.
  4. Only runs on Linux/UNIX with Apache web server and MySQL database (and PHP as required by the LM-Light standard).
  5. The only student information stored is the student name.

If you want more functionality, you can either:

  • Extend the code supplied (under the terms of the GNU Public License).
  • Purchase Capeesh, a business-class LMS supporting the LMS standard.

The Reference LMS runs on Linux (or similar UNIX-like systems) running Apache (1.3.33 or higher recommended) and requires MySQL (4.0.25 or higher recommended although earlier versions may work) and PHP (4.4.4 or higher recommended although earlier versions may work).

The Reference LMS is released under the terms of the CC-GNU GPL and can be downloaded from the LM-Light website. Installation and configuration instructions are included in the installation bundle.

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