12 applications in this category
Online Education
This category groups learning management systems (LMS) and educational platforms: online courses, exams, student progress tracking and school management.
See applications ↓When does this category make sense?
An educational platform makes sense when you need to structure courses into modules, test students and track their progress, beyond just publishing videos or PDFs.
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Online Education applications
| Application | Needs a database? | Size | Recommended for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATutor | Yes | 38.27 MB | Schools wanting an LMS with a stronger social component, where students collaborate in groups and blogs. |
| Chamilo | Yes | 999 MB | Training centers that want their teachers up and running on the platform quickly, as reported by its own users. |
| Claroline | Yes | 22.94 MB | International educational projects that need broad multi-language support, with a lighter install than the big LMS platforms. |
| Forma LMS | Yes | 96.16 MB | Businesses that want to sell online training or manage internal staff training with skills tracking and automatic certificates. |
| Gibbon | Yes | 301.69 MB | Schools looking for a comprehensive teaching management tool: lesson planning, grading and behavior tracking. |
| ILIAS | Yes | 470.30 MB | Institutions that need advanced assessments and very detailed access control, plus personal spaces for each student. |
| Moodle | Yes | 528.25 MB | Schools, universities or businesses that need a mature online training platform, with the largest community and plugin catalog in the sector. |
| Omeka | Yes | 54.24 MB | Libraries, museums, archives and academic institutions that want to publish a digital collection without a large technical team. |
| openSIS | Yes | 9.78 MB | Schools that want to give families direct access to grades and communication, through dedicated parent and student portals. |
| RosarioSIS | Yes | 37.18 MB | K-12 schools that need to manage students, grades, attendance and billing from a single platform. |
| Savsoft Quiz | Yes | 41.07 MB | Educators who need to quickly build quizzes and exams, reusing questions they already have in Excel or Word. |
| TCExam | — | 34.89 MB | Educational or certification institutions that need a serious digital exam system, not just informal quizzes. |
ATutor
An open-source LMS with adaptive navigation, collaborative work groups and built-in social networking.
See full guide →Chamilo
A complete e-learning system with easy content creation and student results tracking.
See full guide →Claroline
An e-learning and collaborative work platform, translated into 35 languages, with learning paths and wikis.
See full guide →Forma LMS
An LMS focused on corporate training, with native e-commerce, PDF certificates and skills-gap management.
See full guide →Gibbon
An educational management system with a lesson planner, markbook and student behavior logging.
See full guide →ILIAS
A robust LMS with advanced assessment tools, personal portfolios and granular access control.
See full guide →Moodle
The world's most widely used online learning platform, with forums, peer-review workshops and support for thousands of students.
See full guide →Omeka
A web publishing platform for showcasing library, museum and archive collections, as easy as a blog.
See full guide →openSIS
A student information system with a parent portal, online grading and built-in messaging.
See full guide →RosarioSIS
A school management system (SIS) for K-12 schools, with grades, attendance, billing and discipline.
See full guide →Savsoft Quiz
Online quizzes and exams with a question bank importable from Excel and a live virtual classroom.
See full guide →TCExam
An electronic exam system (CBA/CBT) for creating, scheduling and grading digital tests.
See full guide →Frequently asked questions about online education
Does Moodle need a lot of server resources?
Moodle can run on shared hosting for small and medium-sized institutions; resource use mainly depends on the number of simultaneous users and the multimedia content hosted.
Can I sell courses with these platforms?
Some platforms in this category include or allow integrating paid modules to sell course access; check each application's documentation before installing it.
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