I have thought of following components. Please advise/comment on my choices -
1. Joomla 1.5
2. Kunena forum (I have good exp managing the forums)
3. A good template for rockettheme. I have a subscription with them and entitled for a template.
4. Jomsocial
5. Tienda (not sure as it may not be ready for production). Also, I will be selling only one course. Wondering whether it is a overkill.
6. Install Moodle 1.9 (I currently have 2.0.1 on the website and I will install a new one). Wondering whether any options avaiable to move the existing chapters from 2.0.1 to 1.9.
7. Offcourse Joomdle. I found it today and very excited about it.
It is a little difficult to provide comments, without the context in which you are asking. From a technical point of view? From a user point of view? etc. etc.
1. Joomla. OK Nice - leading open CMS Why 1.5? Why 1.6? For me I am on 1.5 moving to 1.6 for ACL / Role reasons.
2. Kunena. Used here and also the leading open forum for Joomla. Do note that we have not integrated Moodle's forum to kunena at this time. I do not know if we will get to this - demands on user demand.
3. Rockettheme is one of the better ones and that I use too. I also use yootheme depending upon the project.
4. Jomsocial. A nice looking and functional community solution for Joomla. Integrates with Joomdle for data sharing.
5. Tienda. A nice ecommerce solution. Integrates with Joomdle. MVC written in comparison to the earlier VM. Still is a beta and the new VM (VM2.0) has just made RC.
6. Moodle 2.0 to Moodle 1.9; Why would you want to downgrade? I know there are some reasons, but make sure you have the correct reason for doing it. I am not aware of any tools that moves a Moodle 2.0 course to 1.9.
As you can see, all my comments are pretty generic and probably do not offer much assistance. It would be best if you had specific questions / context in which you are asking.
1. About 50 Chapters each explaining a concept. Each chapter includes a video, description, quiz and assignment.
2. Forum for students to discuss issue for each chapter (or group of chapters).
3. Social network for students to discuss and meet other students and share tips about learning Java or finding jobs in Java.
4. Sell a 3 month subscription. Which means, make it easier for them to buy the course.
- You mention that so far you are not pleased with the look of the Moodle course. By going down to Moodle 1.9, you will be more restricted in its overall look. Moodle 2.0 offers greater flexibility as it relates to design.
- Since you only have one course, do you even need Moode? What is features of Moodle that you require? Gradebook? Parent options? Learning objectives and lesson plans?
- Forum, is it private or public. Are there forum categories to support the various learning objectives? If you need a private area just for students you need to manage user roles and acls. Thus it might be easier to use Joomla 1.6
- Is a social network the right tool for what your objectives are? Can a discussion group achieve this purpose for you? You don't want a social network that sits there doing nothing - Can hurt your site. Unless you need all the photos, videos, groups, events, etc etc. considering using your forum only. This of course depends on your needs.
- How do you plan to manage the subscriptions? While you can sell courses through Tienda or VM, they are not subscription managers. You can sell through these tools and set your course in Moodle to have an expiration at 3months. Then what will you do after that?
