(open source) course management web software

Question

I'm looking for a few alternatives for a course management web software. It should be able to:

• manage courses online
• generate a website with all courses
• allow online booking with an adjustable form
  • aka add custom fields
• manage attendees online
• export to Excel (either xls or csv)
• best to be standalone

I already found:

• OSG Seminar Manager (Joomla)
• Studip (standalone, but badly programmed, seems not installable)
• wp-events-plugin (WordPress, adjustable forms not free)

Answer 1

Moodle would be the software of your choice.

Most online course creators/educators use Moodle recently, and has been evolving pretty fast.

It also has a large community. So, it would be easy to setup and navigate.

I have used a site which is built on Moodle, and it's pretty smooth and very easy to use with a wonderful set of features.

Its features include:

1. Ease of use
2. Personalized Dashboard
3. Intuitive and all-in-one calender
4. Notifications from student activities
5. Really good text editor
6. Tracking progress of students

And a lot more.

There are already hundreds of sites in the US itself, which are built on Moodle.

Answer 2

The well known EDX platform is also open source. Main page: https://open.edx.org/ Source code at github: https://github.com/edx/ There is also a community around this software and documentation and it can be self hosted as well as software as a service.