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DESCRIPTION

ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, and develop custom templates to give ATutor a new look. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, easily retrieve and import prepackaged content, and conduct their courses online. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment.

ATutor is the first fully inclusive LCMS, complying with the W3C WCAG 1.0 accessibility specifications at the AA+ level, allowing access to all potential learners, instructors, and administrators, including those with disabilities who may be accessing the system using assistive technologies. Conformance with W3C XHTML 1.0 specifications ensures that ATutor is presented consistently in any standards compliant technology.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.6.4-beta1:
  • Common Cartridge: Author, Import, and Export IMS Common Cartridges. Cartidges are bundles of content, tests, Web links, and learning activities. Create your own cartridges using the ATutor content authoring tools. Import an external cartridge, from OpenLearn for example, then modify the content to your liking. Export cartridges for reuse in other courses, or in other learning management systems that support common cartridge importing.
  • UI Enhancements: More collapsable menus, and inline editors for editing content directly in the menu. Sub menu replaced with an easier to use tool bar for quicker access to tool features.
  • Prerequisite Tests: Now set access to content based on passing a test.
  • See the full list of changes.
REQUIREMENTS
  • HTTP Web Server is required. (We recommend Apache)
  • PHP version 4.3.0+, or 5.0.2+, with Zlib, MySQL (and MBString for ATutor 1.6+) support enabled.
  • MySQL - As of ATutor 1.6, MySQL 4.1.10+ is required.
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    Developer:Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
    Downloads:4,800
      - Version d/l:166
    Education:Teaching Tools
    License:Free
    Date:18 Nov 2009
    Platform:PPC/Intel
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    Jul 8 2006

    SMCCANDLISH  "Do not use Apache 2.x"? You're kidding, right? How hard can it be to simply document what has to be twiddled to make this work under the current, modern version of Apache, which is almost certainly going to be what will ship with MacOS X 10.5, and already what most serious Mac-based webmasters are using (either via Fink, DarwinPorts or a manual install). Anyway, this seems like a great project and a whole lot of work, to support only a dying server. Might as well have made this a MacOS 9 only app. ;-)  
    (Version 1.5.3)

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    Mar 5 2006
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    DR3VI1  Problems seem to happen with this version 1.5.1 and the newer version 1.5.2 of replicating Course Content data.

    27 Duplicate records are always created. Also when creating content data When Using Mozilla you get A popup saying "No content data found". IE you get a "page not found error" From what I could gather it's an IIS Issue their having with this software, and are unable to fix.... From what I could gather on the net this ONLY Works with Apache Server, So heads up folks on IIS

    I'm only giving it a low rating because there was no warning about the IIS, I had to spend hours blowing my brains out trying to figure that one out. Other than that it seems like a cool system.  
    (Version 1.5.1pl1)

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