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Content Management System (CMS)

Computer Managemen System is a tool that helps the people to create, edit and manage content (text, images, graphics, video,sound,etc.) by using a certain process.

www.dokeos.com

It is a well-known e-learning management application. It is a free and easy software. You can build e-courses by using given templates . You can prepare and author assignment and tests including multiple choice, fill-in-the blanks, open questions, hospots, etc. You can organize the lesson content and activities by sequencing authomatically. You can have Chat, Video Conferencing and give feedback to each other . Dokeos also has a mascot ‘Mister Dokeos’ and provides it to the users so that they can enhance learning. It can be used in five language, including Netherlands, English, French, Italian, Spanish

www.nicenet.org

It is a sophisticated tool which provides a variety of learning environments including conferencing, document or link sharing, scheduling, and personal messaging. It is also free and easy to use. To create a class, it is enough just to have an account. It addresses to the post secondary and secondary classrooms, distance education and collobarative academic projects. The site also provides easily reach to every section while dealing with a different section.

www.moodle.org

It is a content management system which is designed for educational purposes. It is a free and Open Source software. It has a large number of users from 193 countries all around the world.One can use Moodle for commercial services such as fully serviced Moodle hosting, remote support contracts, custom code developmetn, consulting. If one know Unix and other web technology, s/he can easily install Moodle. If one need help for developing their own course, Moodle provides coursewares to help them professionally . For example ‘E-Desing’ for United Kingdom is one of Moodle partners forthis aim and provides tschnical and pedagogical service related to Moodle. One of the users, Timothy Takemoto, Japan expresses his thought about Moodle “I am, first of all, stunned by the quality of this software and by the potential it has to help my institution. I have been at the recieving end of a lot of extremely helpful advice.”