Online learning is growing increasingly popular amongst both students and institutions and CourseForum is designed to allow educators to draw-up their own online learning courses.
CourseForum is designed at creating a forum of debate around subjects studied and in the developer's own words, about "creating, sharing and talking about ideas, Q&A, course notes, research, student portfolios, project work, and more".
You can setup up a project very quickly with CourseForum. A setup wizard takes you through all the initial steps you need to get going. Everything is done within your web browser meaning that students don't need to use a third party application. They can access the course simple from a web address that you provide although you can setup your own server if you want. There are separate wizards depending on whether you want to setup or devise a group project, lesson plan or individual student project.
Tracking of students is made as easy as possible via an online tracking tool per unit completed. However, although initial setup of CourseForum is straightforward, administration and especially switching to your own server (although not essential) may be quite intimidating for beginners.
CourseForum is an interesting online learning tool that has something for both students and educators.
