elefant/app-lemur

E-learning platform for the Elefant CMS

Lemur Learning

Status: Beta, _(*1)

An e-learning app for the Elefant CMS. Lemur aims to be the Wordpress of e-learning, a free and ultra-simple way to publish and host your own courses that keeps you in control., _(*2)

However, Lemur has a ways to go before it is ready for non-developers. We still have reams of documentation to write, and more work to do to make it as simple as possible to get up and running, regardless of your skill level., _(*3)

Lemur Learning is brought to you by the Centre for Education and Work, a Canadian non-profit dedicated to helping Canadians improve their lives through learning., _(*4)

Here is a screenshot of the Lemur Learning course editor:, _(*5)

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Features

• Publish your own courses of any length
• Easy-to-use and powerful course editor
• Embed SCORM modules and other dynamic content into courses
• Courses can be free, paid, or private
• Easy learner account management
• Learner input and instructor feedback cycle
• Built on a fast, completely modern CMS platform
• Easy theming of your learner website
• Integrate with the Lemur Learning API

To do

Backend:, _(*7)

• See our Github issues

Email notifications:, _(*8)

• To instructor for new assessment input
• To instructor for new comments
• To instructor for new learner registered
• To learner welcome email

Documentation:, _(*9)

• How to use the Lemur Learning API

Installation

First, you will need to install the Elefant CMS. Once that is running, follow these steps:, _(*10)

1. From the root folder of the site run the following command:, _(*11)

php composer.phar require elefant/app-lemur

This will also install the following apps that Lemur depends on:, _(*12)

• Comments
• SCORM
• Stripe Payments

Note: You may need to add "minimum-stability": "dev" to your composer.json file in order for Composer to work correctly while Lemur is still in development., _(*13)

Payments: Additional payment providers can be supported by implementing the payment handler interface found here. More documentation and examples still to come., _(*14)

2. Copy the file apps/lemur/sample_bootstrap.php into your document root and rename it bootstrap.php. If a bootstrap.php already exists, open the file and add the relevant lines of code to your existing bootstrap.php file., _(*15)

cp apps/lemur/sample_bootstrap.php bootstrap.php

3. Copy the apps/lemur/theme folder into your layouts folder and rename it lemur., _(*16)

cp -R apps/lemur/theme layouts/lemur

4. Log into Elefant and run the Lemur installer by navigating to Tools > Courses., _(*17)

Optional steps

5. Add the following line to the [Hooks] section of conf/config.php to enable email notifications of comments to course instructors:, _(*18)

comments/add[] = lemur/hook/comments

6. Go to Tools > Navigation and add the Courses page to your site tree., _(*19)

7. Go to Tools > Designer and set the Lemur layout as your default., _(*20)

8. Copy the product.php file from your apps/lemur folder into the global conf folder, overwriting the existing copy. This will replace the Elefant branding with Lemur's own., _(*21)

You should now have a working Lemur installation., _(*22)

First steps

To create courses, go to Tools > Courses. To install SCORM modules for use in your courses, go to Tools > SCORM. To view the list of courses on your site visit the /courses URL and you will see any publicly visible courses listed there., _(*23)

Documentation

Early documentation is available through Lemur's Github wiki page., _(*24)