E-learning

smart learn is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. It's an ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.

smart learn is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design means that people can develop additional functionality. Development is undertaken by a globally diffused network of commercial and non-commercial users, spearheaded by our company.

smart learn can be installed on any computer that can run PHP, and can support a SQL type database (for example MySQL). It can be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux (for example Red Hat or Debian GNU). There are many knowledgable Partners to assist you, even host your site.

E-learning features

smart learn has many features expected from an e-learning platform including:

• Forums
• Content managing (resources)
• Quizzes with different kinds of questions
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Database activities
• Surveys
• Chat
• Glossaries
• Peer assessment
• Multi-language support (over 60 languages are supported for the interface)

smart learn is modular in construction and can readily be extended by creating plugins for specific new functionality. smart learn is infrastructure supports many types of plugin:

• Activities
• Resource types
• Question types
• Data field types (for the database activity)
• Graphical themes
• Authentication methods
• Enrollment methods
• Content Filters

Many third-party smart learn plugins are freely available making use of this infrastructure.