Elgg

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Contents 1 Main purpose 2 Useful information 3 Pros & Cons 3.1 Pros 3.2 Cons 4 Reference 5 Tool accessibility test (28 July 2010)

Main purpose

Elgg is free and open-source social networking platform. Although it is primary intended for social networking, one of it's functionalities is ePortfolio. Users can created their ePortfolio presentation to present themselves to colleagues and potential employers.

Useful information

Elgg can be used as a very powerful tool for social networking in general. Activity streams an one of it's features help user to keep up to date with all site activity. Elgg is looking to build SSO (Single-Sign-On) as a 3rd party module to be interoperable with other system such as Moodle.

See video tutorial on using Elgg as an ePortfolio.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Supports customization through widgets
• Photo Gallery
• Free

Cons

• Too comprehensive to use as an ePortfolio
• Lacks integration with Moodle

Reference

http://elgg.org

http://elgg.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgg_(software)

Tool accessibility test (28 July 2010)

Server Response Time test performed from Seattle, WA / Munich, Germany / Brisbane, Australia : 0.231 sec / 0.447 sec / 1.090 sec

Server Response Time Scale: Less than 0,1 = Optimal; 0,1 - 1 = Acceptable; 1 - 4 = Noticable but tolerable delay; 4 - 8 = Bearly tolerant delay

This tool has help included on the tool's webpage (link): http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Main_Page

There is no possiblity of changing the type or size of fonts in the tool (it can be done only as a browser functionality).