Neste slideshow podem ver algumas imagens paralelas do dokeos e do moodle. O que se consegue imediatamente perceber é que o Moodle é um LMS mais complicado de entender mas também mais poderoso. O dokeos está a ser uma boa surpresa, na medida em que exige poucos conhecimentos dos utilizadores, já que rapidamente percebem como funciona. Caso não haja a exigência de funcionalidades mais avançadas, o dokeos revela-se, de facto, um óptimo LMS.

My website is hosted on webhostgiant.com and they have a platform where people can decide which web applications to install on their websites.


Moodle is one of those applications and it gets installed automatically through their platform. I don’t really appreciate moodle’s clumsy, complicated looking interface so I came to the conclusion that I would be better off choosing a simpler LMS like Dokeos.
Unfortunately installing it was not hassle free. It sounded simple enough but you have to fiddle around with folder and file permissions. That wasn’t the problem though. The minute I finished installing it and went to the home page of the application the only thing I got was a blank screen. Tried to find information in forums that would explain that but nothing seemed to do the trick. Fortunately the guys at webhostgiant.com found the problem and solved it for me. This was part of the email they sent me:

Dokeos couldn't include HTML/Table.php file and wrote to error_log the following messages:
[Tue Jun 23 20:26:02 2009] [error] [client 85.245.201.61] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [<< a href='function.require' >>function.require]:
Failed opening required ‘HTML/Table.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php/library/’) in /var/www/vhosts/tiagotavares.eu/httpdocs/colegioescravas/
elearning/main/inc/lib/sortabletable.class.php on line 24
I’ve added /var/www/vhosts/tiagotavares.eu/httpdocs/colegioescravas/
elearning/main/inc/lib/pear/ directory to include_path.