Courses

A course builder and delivery app for the Elefant CMS. A free and simple way to publish and host your own courses that keeps you in control.

Here is a screenshot of the course editor:

Features

Publish your own courses of any length
Easy-to-use and powerful course editor
Embed SCORM modules and other dynamic content into courses
Courses can be free, paid, or private
Easy learner account management
Learner input and instructor feedback cycle
Built on a fast, completely modern CMS platform
Easy theming of your learner website
Integrate with the Courses API

To do

Backend:

See our Github issues

Email notifications:

To instructor for new assessment input
To instructor for new comments
To instructor for new learner registered
To learner welcome email

Documentation:

How to use the Courses API

Installation

First, you will need to install the Elefant CMS. Once that is running, follow these steps:

1. From the root folder of the site run the following command:

php composer.phar require elefant/app-courses

This will also install the following apps that Courses depends on:

Note: You may need to add "minimum-stability": "dev" to your composer.json file in order for Composer to work correctly while Courses is still in development.

Payments: Additional payment providers can be supported by implementing the payment handler interface found here. More documentation and examples still to come.

2. Log into Elefant and run the Courses installer by navigating to Tools > Courses.

3. Add the following line to the [Hooks] section of conf/config.php to enable email notifications of comments to course instructors:

comments/add[] = courses/hook/comments

4. Go to Tools > Navigation and add the Courses page to your site tree.

You should now have a working installation.

First steps

To create courses, go to Tools > Courses. To install SCORM modules for use in your courses, go to Tools > SCORM. To view the list of courses on your site visit the /courses URL and you will see any publicly visible courses listed there.

Documentation