Hi,
In the ERPNext school video, there is a mention of LMS module and some planned work in building custom LMS module. However the latest version doesn’t have any LMS module at all. I am wondering if the work is still in beta and not included or completely scrapped. If it is scrapped, it might be worth sharing the design, so that someone else interested in developing might get some inspiration from that.
Regards
Sathish
@spoojary
The Library Management is not designed to be production ready. It was more of a training for developers. However, If people from community sponsor or contribute in design and development, we can speed up the process and do the further development on the same.
You can share your ideas here and perhaps we discuss it further.
Thanks @ArundhatiS,
I should have been more clear in my question. I was interested more in Learning Management System than Library Management System. In the school video(webinar), there was a specific question regarding integration with moodle, but the answer was to build own LMS module. Hence I was asking what is the current thought process/roadmap on Learning Management System.
Is there any update on this? I cannot access schools module in erpnext v9. I can see the module access checked
When you first setup ERPNex, choose school as a domain (similar if you want to try the health care)
For both Library Management System and Learning Management system, we can choose to provide integration mechanism with key open source products instead of building entire functionality. Moodle will be a good choice for integrating a learning management system. Will post more detailed note in this regard.
Hi @Shrikant
I think we should keep both the options available. As integrations with some renowned open source LMS project like Moodle can be done, still we should keep this as the last option. Third-party integrations don’t give smooth user experience as we have seen in other connectors. As LMS isn’t kind of much-needed module in the Education domain right now, so we have time to work on this module.
If someone is up for sharing the design and functionality of the LMS module, we should give it a try.
@spoojary you should share the design for the LMS if anyone from the community is willing to work on this feature at least he can use your design as the reference.
Hi Manas,
I agree.
If we are planning for developing LMS functionality within ERPNext for schools, I would suggest following features, which are widely used:
LMS like Moodle or Blackboard provide quite a few features, which are really useful but are used by tech-savvy teachers only. Some of these advanced features include peer assessment of assignments, structured learning trail, journal, etc.
Since open source LMS like Moodle are available, I am not sure how we can arrange funding for above-mentioned most-used features of LMS.
Regards,
Shrikant
I think Library Management System is a good addition to ERPNext as it is just a specialized inventory. However Learning Module System is entirely different and it is better kept separate with seamless integration. The best way to start that is by providing an integration to a good software like Moodle.
I did try building a basic LMS by adding courses/chapters/course content etc. But it was lot of work and the result wasn’t very smooth. For course content we have to use TextEditor which doesn’t look well suited for this usecase. Agree, we can do everything in software, but whether it is worth using our resources is the question. IMHO, we are better off providing integrations than building everything into ERPNext, making it ‘jack of all trades, but master of none’.
The idea is not to build moodle-like functionality in ERPNext. Moodle is quite feature-rich LMS. However, teachers use only fraction of the feature set given by Moodle. I have not done a scientific survey but based on whomever I have spoken in academic world, I have observed that most of the teachers use only few features. I have mentioned those features in my post earlier. In particular, the facility of sharing subject-specific study material is the most widely used feature of LMS. Rest of the features in that list are useful for those teachers who are allowed to conduct their own internal assessment by their institutes.
That is great to hear. Except (2), others don’t look that difficult to implement to fit pretty well with ERPNext.
I agree that Library Management System will be easier than Learning Management System as we already have the Stock module in the ERPNext which can be tightly integrated with the Library Management. But also we shouldn’t forget that other good software like Moodle isn’t very user-friendly. I take lots of user efforts to implement these.
Now if we are willing to develop the Learning Management System, it won’t be easier and can’t be done out of the box using the current framework. But it’s worth giving a shot as only the most useful features will be implemented in the first go. Also, the end user doesn’t have to take the pain of multiple deployment and maintenance of some other LMS only for the few good features.
Suggest we develop topmost LMS feature (facility to share subject-specific study material with students) more generically as development of document workspace sites. The business use cases could be as follows:
Comments please!
I recently tried to upgrade my desktop, which went bad resulting in losing all the work I did in this area. I haven’t looked at school module for a while, but this was my idea:
We have the course concept already in school module. Adding another doctype called ‘Course Content’ will help in building basic LMS features. Like
Course: name, description, course_chapters
Course Chapter: Description, summary(for class notes), References
References: Description, Reference Type(online link, video, embedded files), Reference
‘Course Content’ will be shared with everyone enrolled for the course. Any updates to the course content should trigger a notification to all saying what has changed.
Yeah, that will be great, we can have a code sprint for the same in December.
@spoojary, Yes you are correct. Right now, adding two doctypes will be sufficient for the first cut.
Course Chapter: This will include the course link, description, reference, books, common study material link
Course Content: This can be some article, link to video/audio or any file or quiz or assessment.
So the structure can be something like this
Course
'---- 1. Chapter One
'---- A. Basic Introduction or Article
'---- B. Some embedded Video
'---- C. Any file
'---- D. Etc.
'---- 2. Chapter Two
'---- 2. Etc.
Regarding the user access, this can be edited in the desk via the assigned Teacher role. He can determine the type of the course content and related permission like whether the students can comment or not.
For the student, we have to build the Student portal with some interesting UI so that this all seems interesting and easy to use to them.
I would like to suggest one more feature to the list proposed by Shrikant…
Add facility to export the generated MCQ style test/exam paper as a pdf/word file.
When exporting there should be possibility for the teacher to select the format/structure according to which the exported document should be generated.
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Regards,
Hi All,
Any updates here?
Cheers!
Hi All,
Any progress on the LMS integration initiative !!
Best !!
Hi @Vinob_chander_Ramasw
There isn’t any development on the the LMS module or any integration. You can create a GitHub issue for the same if you want that in the Education module.