Need to make a teaching website; can joomdle help?

Hello guys I'm Abs and I'm new to the forum,

I just needed some advice, I'm not sure if i'm on the right track; here's what I'm want to do:

I want to make a teaching website where students enroll on a course and will be able to sit in a virtual classroom lesson(most importantly) at least 4 or 5 times in the week during the course. I know BigBlueButton provides functionality for this, however, once I came across moodle, I thought to myself, why not try and use this great tool to design the course for the teachers to teach from.The thing is, I'm not sure how I could do this or whether It would make things more complicated or whether I should just use Joomla with a BigBlueButton Module. I'm wondering whether having all three (joomla, moodle & BBB) would make my site slower etc. Ideally, I'd like that all the students would be able to see the teacher live for the tutorials (in BBB) but i'm not sure if that would affect the server or how I could do this.

Please note that I am new to this and would like any help on what's best and how to about doing it.

Hi there,

Welcome to the Joomdle forum. Unfortunately, most of your questions are not related to Joomdle at all and I would hate to steer you in the wrong direction for eg. performance of BBB on the server etc. That said, there should be limited effect of having Joomla, Moodle and BBB running at the same time as the server processor, disk and/or memory are only utilised when one of the applications is in use. So the real issue is how many users and the size of your box, internet, etc. Personally, I wouldn't worry about the performance issues first. I would start be looking at what functionality you need and then considering what is the most appropriate application you require. For eg BBB is very very different from Moodle thus you really should not be comparing them from a competitive point of view but rather do you need one or the other based on the user experience you wish to deploy.

Sorry I cannot be more helpful as the information you have provided is quire limited in terms of features required, objectives, etc. and not really related to Joomdle.

Regards

Sorry, for giving a limited amount of information.

As for the Functionality issue (its simple in theory):
*We should be able to offer short courses for students.
*The teacher must be able to hold a number of live lessons a week with the student(s).
*Assign homeworks and give feedback as well as grading their work (which I believe Moodle offers).
*There should be some form of payment method; I've heard that you can also integrate a shopping cart software.
*The student should only access the course he's enrolled for.

The thing is, I'm not sure how many students or teachers will be involved yet. It could be just a few, or loads. Is it worth having moodle if You just have one student at a time? or is it more useful only when you have alot of students ??

I've downloaded Moodle and joomla and have set them up. Now If you say it's worthwile from looking at what I want to achieve, I would like to integrate it with my Joomla; do they have to have the same site name???

Same name? same domain? It is easier.

I would not be looking at integration just yet. The first thing to do is understand you teaching options and features moodle BBB, etc. Learn what joomla provides and what moodle provides. Once you know the pros and cons of each platform and what you wish to use them for, it would be appropriate to look at integration.

Sorry, i dont know what you mean. Are you saying that if I want to install Moodle and Joomla in the same domain, then it's easier???
Teaching options???? hmmmm.... I'm not sure what the other options are. I think I'll go with using Moodle to manage my courses and my joomla to handle the design of the content.
I've set up my Moodle right now on Xammp, but I haven't been able to access my Joomla which I last uploaded om WAMP. i was hoping that if I integrate them at first then I can just add things in moodle and design the content in Joomla along with it.

What do you think as I have a month to finish this.