Cms lcms-theory
- 1. { Content Management Systems Organizing and publishing information on the Web
- 2. CMS is a term which is commonly used in web publishing nowadays. Its objective is to simplify the creation and administration of online content such as news, webshops, e-learning material. Static vs. dynamic websites
- 3. Goals of using a CMS: Simplify the online publication of electronic material (text, hypertext, multimedia ) Separating content from presentation: Content creation is facilitated by the system. Formatting and layout considerations are taken care of by the publishing templates. Enforcing workflow processes (stages, user privileges, monitoring) Case study: a news website: Writers concentrate on content Copy editors correct spelling, grammar, change style if necessary, write headlines Other editing tasks: adding pictures, links; approving the article before publishing Templates are applied automatically during publishing
- 4. In a CMS, webpages are assembled from several self- contained chunks called content components by authorized users + the CMS system itself (automatization).
- 5. The smallest self-contained piece of information is the content component; these content components are reusable (one content component many articles/courses many readers/students). Advantages: - Reusability - Personalization – if implemented: for example, a user can choose to have only his portfolio of stocks / exchange rates / weather forecast displayed in his version of a webpage (the user’s perspective)
- 6. Free CMS - WordPress
- 7. Free CMS - Joomla
- 8. Free CMS - Drupal
- 9. What is a LMS (Learning Management System)? - LMS is a special-purpose CMS: an LMS's objective is to simplify and automate the administration of learning/training events within an organization. - It helps students/employees to plan and track their learning progress, and to - communicate and collaborate with their peers. - It also helps administrators to target, deliver, track, analyze, and report on the learning status of students (who are employees in many cases). - LMSs may or may not help to directly create instructional content. If not: standalone content creation tools like Macromedia's Dreamweaver can be used to create content. If so: see LCSMs.
- 10. The smallest self-contained piece of instruction in the LMS is the course itself. Any given course is available to one or more students. Teachers can use functions not available to students (they may be able to assign students to courses, change the courses, inspect logs, etc.) → User-rights Smallest self-contained pieces of information: (reusable) learning objects.
- 11. What is a LCMS (Learning Content Management System)? LCMS is used to create, approve, publish, and manage e- learning content. A LCMS combines the administrative and management features of a traditional LMS with the content creation and personalized assembly options of a CMS. Further reading: http://elacd.carnet.hr/index.php/LMS/LCMS
Editor's Notes
- #3: For example, let's consider a fictitious news website called news.hu. This news site has 100 reporters scattered all over the world. In order to avoid a publishing nightmare, there has to be some means to manage all the articles that the reporters send in each day.
- #4: Reporters just need to concentrate on delivering their content (e.g. by entering plain or HTML text directly into a web form which functions as a template) and not worry about layout considerations of their article like where the image will appear, how big the headlines will be, etc. These are layout and presentation blueprints that would make sure that Reporter #25's article and Reporter #88's article have a consistent look and feel to them. The articles sent in by the reporters are first approved by editors before publication. And when they are published, the articles are kept "live" for a particular period of time, after which they are backed up and archived.