Pigo elearning System

What is piGo? piGO is one of our projects. It is a system specially designed for colleges and schools. Schools in El Salvador are implementing a system for teaching online. However such system is not as complete as you would expect to be. That's were piGo comes in action. PiGo will make easier for teachers to share their education content and for students to access school homeworks, projects and even organize their team assignments.

Pigo aims to be an e-learning system based on a heavily custom fork of elgg, the social networking platform. 

The goal is to make a lightweight, fast and robust e-learning system that will be affordable for schools and colleges. We want to offer a self hosted e-learning platform. Most of the e-learning platforms require to be hosted at the company’s servers, which is a serious privacy issue. PiGo will not be like that. PiGo will be very easy to deploy, configure and edit (If you ever need to change something in PiGo)

 

Background History

Back in 2006, I was in college, doing a quiz. I was a freshman, and I had to do that quiz online, using BlackBoard. Most of the people don’t care what they used for the quiz but I did. BlackBoard was based on Java, so was heavy, very heavy on the computer. Not only that, it wasn’t Linux friendly. It was very slow and not quite there yet. Still was one of the most widely used elearning systems. Since then, I had a dream of making a BlackBoard Competitor, better, faster and of course affordable for schools and colleges.

Now in 2012, I see that dream close. Not quite there but pretty close. Elgg already offers some of the features needed on a elearning platform. Even better, the layout of elgg 1.8 feels like BlackBoard back then.

PiGo + Elgg

PiGo will use elgg. Elgg is very flexible, and it already comes with many features out of the box. However, the plan is make a heavily custom elgg ‘fork’, which will no longer be elgg, but PiGo.

PiGo is in development, we have been working fast for the last couple of months. It will be available, soon.

You can find more info @ SW Social Web Site

Pigo will have many features, such as:

-Online Quiz (Timed/Not Timed) with Instant Grading

-Online Tests (Timed/Not Timed) with Instant Grading

-Online Courses

-Course Chat

-Students Chat

-Private Messaging

-Personal Profile

-Custom Color Style

-Full Ajax Support

-GPA (If available)

-Course Grading

-Homeworks

-Homeworks Notifications

-Quiz Notifications

-Test Notifications

-Final Grading Notifications

-The Lounge (Teacher’s Dashboard Administration for managing courses, tests, etc)

-Emerging Countries Friendly (Multiple OS Support and Fast for better compatiblity with low power computers)

 Tour

PiGo Student Dashboard

Pigo Student | Reading a Word Document