Joomla is a
very popular Content Management System where corporate web pages are very easy
to be created. Apparently, it has a massive community and support network.
Joomla was wide-spread before wordpress, which is mainly used for blogging. Another
advantage of Joomla is that allows one to create nice educational sites and
community sites.
It seems
easy to install the basic tools, choose among different templates and use
extensions in order to get closer to your needs and be adapted to each
particular situation. Apparently, no programming knowledge is needed.Additionally, Joomla is multilingual and well supported, it is quite easy to update and help is automatically integrated in the system. Websites designed by Joomla provide a quick and good search option. Managing the content is quite easy since it allows for nested categorization and tagging. Editing content is also quite easy and fast and menus can be created for each particular need.
The fact
that it requires a maintenance team, regular updates, restrictions of the
templates and some knowledge to go beyond the characteristics of some templates
are discouraging and they would make me choose some of the many possibilities
to give information and teaching that one can find nowadays. Some of this
alternatives are Google sites (which are quite flexible, do not require
programming skills and easy use in order to build webpages) , blogs or combine
them with some tools provided by Moodle for handing in students’ activities.
This is the
extension I want to share with you:
This
extension is used in order to schedule events and introduce a calendar in your
website. In terms of teaching, I find this extension interesting because you
can add the date of the exam, deadlines for problem sets, organise didactic
units by weeks, etc. This helps students to have a clear idea about the
temporal organization of the course. Additionally, it has very good reviews and
it is available in many languages.
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