| Feature List (02.02.2004) | ||||
| Moodle v.1.1.1 | Ilias v.3.0.0_beta2 | CourseWork v.2.5 | Chef v.1.1.09 | |
| Creator | private (Martin Dougiamas) | University of Cologne | Stanford University | University of Michigan |
| URL | http://moodle.org/ | http://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de | http://coursework.stanford.edu/ | http://www.chefproject.org |
| Demo | Demo | Demo | Demo | Demo |
| Exemplary "real" courses | Example | not found | not found | |
| Communication | ||||
| Groups | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Discussion board | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Chat | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Internal mail system | no | yes | yes | yes (also instant messaging) |
| Schedule | yes | no | yes | yes |
| Course managment | ||||
| Add/Edit modules, units, sections | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Include learning material (text) | yes | yes | external | external |
| Include grafics/illustrations | yes | yes | external | external |
| Include multimedia | ? | yes | external | external |
| File sharing | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Grades | yes | no | yes | no |
| Glossary | no | yes | no | no |
| Multiple Choice | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Quizzes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Literature Bookmarks | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Surveys | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Search | yes | yes | no | no |
| Authoring system | no | yes | no | no |
| User administration | ||||
| Add | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Edit | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Groups | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Privileges | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| System administration | ||||
| Edit settings | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Logs | yes | yes | ? | ? |
| Help | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| System requirements | ||||
| Runs on Windows server | yes | yes (no support) | ? | yes (no support) |
| Runs on Linux server | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Needs PHP | yes | yes | ? | no |
| Needs MySQL DB | yes | yes | yes | optional |
| Needs Oracle DB | no | no | yes | optional |
| Needs Java | no | no | yes | yes |
| Licensed under GNU GPL | yes | yes | no | no |
| Other license | yes | yes | ||
| open source | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| free of charge | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| expandable/modular | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Implementing O.K.I. architecture | no | no | yes | yes |
| Support for SCORM content | no | no | ? | ? |
| Additional | New versions: | New versions: | New versions: | New versions: |
1.2 : Early 2004. |
3.1.0_beta1 | ? | ? | |
| Includes Glossary, | Supposed to be released 2004- | |||
| Attendance, Webquest | 03-3, but developers are behind | |||
| schedule. Adds SCORM 1.2 | ||||
| 2.0: Early 2004. | compliance and a new | |||
| Changes in internal structure to | Test/Assessment Tool, more | |||
| add flexibility (XHTML, more PHP | here | |||
| classes) | ||||
| 2.1: Early 2004. | ||||
| New access-control system, | ||||
| more pedagogical support, | ||||
| SCORM support | ||||