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Course Platform Evaluation Report

Products

ATutor 1.5.1

Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto, Canada: http://www.atutor.ca/

Last major evaluation update: August 2005

About product
ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. The first public release of ATutor was in December of 2002.

About producer

Strengths
ATutor has a pleasant interface, and navigation is easy. A course can be created quickly with most standard features of a course platform. The ability to import/export SCORM/IMS content packages is also a useful feature.

Weaknesses
The two different types of content can sometimes make course creation more difficult. Also, course elements cannot be bookmarked. For developers, there is no possibility to easily extend ATutor's functionalites. Only ATutor's internal database can be used for authentication.