Open Source LMS & CMS

Samudra Software operates in a niche corner of the software industry, the niche of online education.

Since its inception, Samudra Software has focused on servicing the educational sector. With the explosion of the internet, educational publishers, schools, and colleges started using learning management systems to provide online training/education to students/users. Since the educational sector is our focus, Samudra Software that already has a good team of individuals well experienced in open source technologies, started offering Moodle, Sakai – open source learning management systems (LMS), WordPress, Drupal – open source content management systems (CMS) to its clients.

Moodle – LMS

Over the years, Samudra Software has implemented Moodle learning management system for numerous clients. Along the way, it has created a proprietary library of 50+ unique plugins for the Moodle platform. These proprietary plugins enabled Samudra Software to deploy learning management systems that meet specific client requirements quickly and cost effectively.

Moodle is an open source Learning Management System (LMS) freely available via the Open Source General Public License (GPL) that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Moodle stands for “Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment” and is now used as an enterprise-level, mission critical application by many higher education institutions around the world.

Moodle is a web application written in PHP (http://www.php.net). Though it can run on a wide variety of databases, MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) is used in majority of installations because it is also open source and quite popular among developers.

A Moodle site is made up of courses which are basically pages containing the learning materials, activities teachers want to share with their students.

Courses can contain content for a year’s studies, a single session or any other variants depending on the teacher or establishment. They can be used by one teacher or shared by a group of teachers.

A teacher in a Moodle course can select items from three different elements which together assist in the learning process.

They are: Activities, Resources and Blocks.

Activities:
An Activity in Moodle is a feature where students learn by interacting with each other or with their teacher. They might for instance contribute in a forum, upload an assignment, answer questions in a quiz or collaborate together in a wiki. Activities can be graded.

Resources:
A Resource in Moodle is an item that a teacher can add to a Moodle course to support learning, such as a file, a video or link to a website. A resource differs from an activity in that it is static; ie, the student can merely look at or read it, rather than participate.

Blocks:
A Block in Moodle is an item that a teacher can add to the left or right of a Moodle course page. They provide extra information or links to aid learning. Blocks are a bit like “widgets” elsewhere online and can contain for example, RSS news feeds, quiz results, a calendar, links to blogs, glossary terms or private files. There is also a simple HTML block which can be customized as the teacher wishes.

Moodle Features

• Enrollment
• Roles
• Assignment module
• Chat module
• Choice module
• Forum module
• Glossary module
• Lesson module
• Quiz module
• Wiki module

WordPress – CMS

WordPress has emerged as the most powerful blog publishing tool, which has revolutionized the blog publishing and content management. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service. It’s simple to use architecture, multiple features, templates and customization made WordPress the most sort after tool for CMS.

Samudra’s highly talented and skilled team of WordPress developers are experienced enough to deal with WordPress development projects of varying degrees and sizes with ease while maintaining high industry standards. The consistent efforts of our talented developers that have made it possible for us to accomplish many challenging projects. We execute all the features of this simple content management system appropriately to deliver custom websites and update the existing websites of our clients.

Our WordPress services include:

Why Choose Samudra for your WordPress Web Application Development Project?

If you’ve a website and you want to integrate it to WordPress flawlessly in your website, our wordpress developers can get it done. We provide professional wordpress web development services under which our skilled wordpress web developers would integrate your site to the wordpress framework. Blog on websites attracts the viewers to your website to read inventions, biographies of people etc available on blog.

Samudra’s innovative WordPress-based CMS solutions and development are changing the way people experience the web. Our end-to-end solutions are designed to give you maximum output based on your current requirements that will evolve in future.

Sakai – LMS

A full featured system supporting technology-enabled teaching, learning, research and collaboration for education.

Instructors and learners share knowledge, collaborate and engage in a wide spectrum of technology-enabled learning experiences, supported by an intuitive, modern user interface.

More than a learning system, the Sakai project is designed to support collaborative projects, including effective collaboration between academic researchers. Sakai provides a rich toolset for communication, collaboration and knowledge-sharing within a single environment.

The Sakai project provides a flexible and feature-rich environment for teaching, learning, research and other collaboration. As an open source software suite developed by its adopter community, the Sakai project continually evolves in step with the needs of the students, faculty members and organizations it serves.

Colleges, universities, governments and other organizations deploy Sakai’s rich toolset to expand the possibilities for technology-enabled learning across many facets of the educational experience.

Sakai’s open architecture lends itself well to incorporating learning tools developed inside or outside the Sakai community.

Why Choose Samudra for your Sakai LMS Project?

Samudra has nurtured a team of extremely skilled Sakai developers. Web development services have been Samudra’s core offering since the inception of the company, allowing the company to provide utmost niche web development services. Clinging to our core expertise in web development, we have been offering customized Sakai web development services that are delegated with the use of latest tools and technologies. Our Sakai web development services that are integrative, qualified and experimental are purposely designed to help our clients achieve the maximum ROI.

Drupal – CMS

If security is what you worry about when it comes to developing your website using CMSs we have the answer ready for you in the form of Drupal. Secured backends make your websites impossible to breach and it is this guarantee we can give for every web page we create. With us you’ll have the best coding brains involved in structuring the most secured websites which are impeccable in every given pixel.

Considered to be one of the most popular content management systems, Drupal enables easy publishing, managing and organizing diverse content on a website. Works smoothly on the Microsoft Web Platform, Drupal is an open source platform and it can adapt to any virtual design.

• Easy to install and configure on live server
• Small learning curve for administration
• Lots of features, such as custom search engine friendly URLs (SEF), categories, search function
• Flexibility – You can easily turn your drupal installation into a forum, faq, blog, wiki and many other types of web sites
• Users & community – The large community guarantees that Drupal will have a bright future
• Open source and free to use & customize
• Easily integrable with third party application

Samudra Software has earned its experience in Drupal web development services that includes e-commerce websites, corporate websites, magazine websites etc. We are expert in Drupal core and module customization. Our team is dedicated towards offering the best customized drupal website development services to our clients available in Drupal module community.

• Drupal Design Integration
• Drupal custom templates and themes development
• Drupal custom modules and components development
• Module installation
• Drupal website maintenance
• Drupal website SEO

Why Choose Samudra for your Drupal Development Project?

At Samudra, we are thrived to go that extra mile to guide our users on how to maintain and edit tools. Following our expertise, we have been developing various new modules in Drupal to meet the specific business requirements of the clients. We have a team of drupal web developers with experience of working on Drupal website application development and customization. Our team is capable of executing project of high technical challenge and complexity.  With that, Samudra brings further services with elements like quality, speed, responsiveness, scalability and consistency while delivering development services.