Joomla Question

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Permalink Reply by Urko M. on November 17, 2008 at 3:20pm

In my opinion, when you deal with this kind of products, you have two ways to go:
- Get the latest and greatest version.
- Get the not-so-latest, but stable and tested version.

Too many people go for the first option, when it's a mission-critical system. Ask your IT director to find out which option her groupmates went for, and take it from there.

Just my 2 cents.

Permalink Reply by Cliff Lyon on November 19, 2008 at 12:18pm

Every time I have suggested Drupal or Joomla to ANYONE who does not know it, I get the same response. It is a predictable canard coming from someone who does not want to have to learn and support something they do not know.

But I highly recommend you consider building your school, teacher, clubs, students, etc. on the ManyOne platform.

Its free, or $8/month to remove advertising and host your domain name. But while we are still in beta (one more month) we are giving away free lifetime subscriptions for the first 50 or so schools that build portals.

There are many educational (and will be more) sites there as well.

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If you get serious, I will assign an intern to transfer your existing site.

Tks
Cliff

Permalink Reply by Melissa Benson on May 22, 2009 at 12:46pm

I may be wrong, but whether or not your Joomla site would get hacked is completey based on the settings and security of the server it is running on. These options and security issues would be set up by your networking and IT people. Again, I could be wrong but Joomla is a software that is put on a server and whether it's Joomla, Moodle, WPMU, etc it doesn't matter - it depends on set up from your server.

Permalink Reply by Blaine Transue on June 9, 2009 at 2:14pm

Looks like this is an older post, but perhaps my response will still be relevant to others with similar questions. Products like Joomla and Typo3 work fine if you have a good IT department to support them. The problem is, as others have mentioned, that they usually require installation and hosting behind your own firewalls...tricky stuff, even for the well informed. You also need to continuously update the software and add on modules, so it really is an IT job not a tech teacher job.

Having been involved precisely in this end of education technology for more than 20 years convinced me to create WebSchoolPro, a secure CMS for schools that runs on education only servers. I do hope that some of you folks looking for school websites will check it out. There's no cost or risk to signing on or using WebSchoolPro. The entire registration and activation process takes less than 5 minutes. You are welcome to try it out and walk away, or use it as long as you like. Since August we have signed up more than 200 very happy schools across the country. Find out more at http://webschoolpro.com

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On the site you can also visit our Blog, links to LIVE schools, read testimonials about the product, chat live with us online and much more. Do yourself a favor, take a load off of your IT staff and make you business manager very happy!

Best Regards, Blaine

Permalink Reply by Alline Sada on November 4, 2009 at 7:06pm

I'm using Joomla 1.5 with Legacy 1.0 on for my personal website, my modules are running well. I have found that there are many great new tools for publishing websites out there today!
Joomla
Drupal
Xoops

These are great when managing TONS of content like teacher webpages, photo galleries, online gradebooks, etc.
BUT you definitely need someone who can manage the system, if you are starting from scratch (like I did), give yourself a couple of weeks of toying around with these before setting it up.

Here's a nice little module for online gradebooks, in case you don't want to go the third-party apps path (such as edu20.org or engrade.com).

http://www.joomlalms.com/lms-help/teacher-documentation/gradebook.html