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Course management systems are typically considered template-driven website systems specifically focused on addressing issues surrounding formal courses. Equipped with administrative features, course management systems facilitate learning, communication and collaboration, and has had a significant impact on the teacher's ability to manage and improve the quality of a course.
Given this ability to create and publish content, faculty's common use for course tools is to distribute materials, e.g., syllabi, resources and assignments. In addition, course tools are used in some degree to facilitate threaded discussion and email announcements.
Due to the nature of course management systems, appearance and navigational structure from one website to another is consistent. A student who is familiar with one website on the system will effectively use any other website on the system.
Limitations:
Course management systems are not designed for general website publishing applications. The highly enforced structure of websites, built within these rigid systems, limit the way a website can be used. While being an effective tool to create websites relating to a course, a course management system restricts the publishing of websites for other purposes.
Course management systems create websites that are naturally designed to communicate course information accessed and viewed by authenticated and authorized internal groups such as course instructors and students. This restriction, limits the ability of websites built within the system, to effectively share materials and information with prospective students, faculty or staff outside the course or with the general public.
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GVC.SiteMaker has many things in common with course tools. As well as being a template-driven website creation system, GVC.SiteMaker has built in administrative features that facilitate learning, communication and collaboration. With GVC.SiteMaker instructors and students can communicate effectively and can share and distribute information relating to the course. As well, GVC.SiteMaker allows the website owner to restrict and permit access to specific web-pages and files to specific groups using authentication and authorization capabilities.
In addition to what course management systems have to offer, website owners can utilize the flexibility of GVC.SiteMaker to easily and quickly create a fully functional website that; has a unique design and style, contains sophisticated content, presents a comprehensive navigational structure and employs data tables.
Websites created in GVC.SiteMaker are not only used as effective course management solutions but are also fully functional and scalable websites suitable for public viewing and for publishing on the World-Wide-Web.
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