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Open Document
The Open Document Standard

This web site offers a information concerning the Open Document format as approved by the ISO. Nearly any question you may have concerning how the Open Document format works and how it can be applied can be answered here

SCORM Information
One Minute SCORM Overview for Anyone

The SCORM standard is utilized to help create lessons that are available to a wide variety of Learning Content Management Systems. This site helps explain the SCORM standard.

Resources

Office Suites, Desktop Publishing, etc.

OpenOffice.org

The OpenOffice Suite is the primary editor used in creating the Lesson Plans presented here. It has the ability to open and save files in Microsoft Office format, as well as the default Open Document format. It is available on several platforms including Linux and Windows.

KOffice

KOffice is a complete open source office suite for the Linux platform. Designed for use on the KDE desktop, it offers a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, database and more. Like the editors listed, KOffice can also save documents in the OpenDocument format.

AbiWord

AbiWord is an open source word processing program. Like OpenOffice, it is available for several platforms, including Windows and Linux. In addition to its own file format, AbiWord can also open and save documents in Open Document format.

Scribus

Scribus is less a word processor and more a desktop publishing tool. It is very powerful and offers the user a multitude of options. It is also available on the Linux or Windows platforms.

The Open Fonts Web Site

This web site offers a wide assortment of open source fonts that you can use in your documents. Many of these are "True Type Fonts" (TTF) allowing them to be used on both Linux and Windows computer systems.

Learning Content Management Systems & Tools

Moodle

Moodle, now in version 1.8 is an open source, high quality, web based, LCMS program.The program is highly expandable with numerous plug-ins available. The system is flexible enough for a small agency with a few students, or a larger department with thousands of students. The program is available for any system that can operate an Apache web server, MySQL database and PERL/PHP.

Claroline

Another high quality LCMS program. This is a solid program that smaller agencies may find useful, as it does not have the steeper learning curve of a program like Moodle. In addition to allowing for the import of SCORM lesson modules, Claroline also allows you to create SCORM compliant lessons from within the program.

Dokeos

A relatively new entry into the open source LCMS field, Dokeos is coming along nicely. Like Claroline, it does not have all of the 'bells and whistles' of Moodle, but is easy to learn and a solid performer. Dokeos is currently at Version *.*

eXe Editor

The eXe editor is an open source, cross platform editor for creating SCORM compliant lessons. It is easy to use, and continues to expand its options. eXe is available for Linux, Windows or Mac