Hello everyone
I would like to know what apps are you using for university courses, communication, collaboration, etc…
Now I am using nextcloud, dokuwiki and grav. There are other apps in the catalog that seem to be interesting, but I wanted your feedback.
Thanks
When I was studying, my university used mostly Moodle (Yunohost package GitHub - YunoHost-Apps/moodle_ynh: Moodle package for YunoHost). Interface felt a little bit unintuitive but Moodle made its job quite well.
Yep, we have it and yes its interface is unintuitive that’s why I was looking for alternatives and refreshing.
There is a nice collection of tools YunoHost app store | Digitools The developer has much more to offer https://ladigitale.dev I am using many of his tools. brilliant stuff! See also Emmanuel ZIMMERT - Codeberg.org Would be nice to have more of them into Yunohost!
I came across the website and I found a long list of apps. I should take more time to understand what I can do with them. But I remember it was more oriented to pre university, may be I’m wrong.
I try to avoid Moodle, since it introduces a lot of complication for little benefit. I put course materials on a simple web server, since I find it easier to sftp a PDF to a web server than to navigate some web interface (the students tell me that PDF is fine, no need to publish lecture notes as HTML or EPub, as long as the PDF allows copy-paste). I don’t password-protect the course materials, since I want other lecturers (not necessarily at my university) who are doing similar courses to be able to copy-paste from my work.
For grading, I use a spreadsheet which I then export as CSV. For remote courses, for remote practicals, for remote examinations, and for meetings with the other lecturers I use Galene, which makes it easy to share multiple documents (say, an editor and a blackboard at the same time) and is able to automatically create breakout groups. For documents written in common, we either use LaTeX files in a Git repository, or Etherpad, which we then export as Markdown before publishing as PDF.
The one piece that’s missing is software for scheduling oral examinations; I currently use a server written by myself, but it needs more work before I can make it available (using it currently required manually editing JSON files).
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Nice, getting clearer view.
There is directory lister app that helps in providing documents for students.
Galene, I must try it to see if I can convince our team to replace zoom.
For collaborative document editing, I started using dokuwiki.
We also are using librebooking to book classrooms and equipments for simulation sessions.
Take a look at this YunoHost app store | Rallly
That’s going to cause a lot of hostility. Instead, I recommend making a Galene instance available to your team, and then starting to schedule meetings on Galene, without imposing to everyone that they abandon Zoom.
Galene is an acquired taste, but once you get used to its features, Zoom starts feeling very limited.
2.5 GB of RAM just to schedule an exam? That doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.
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to install only. I’ve noticed that a lot of nodejs apps require a lot of ram to install. I’ve tried to install it on my server (intel atom/2G RAM) and it failed.