Learning Management Systems (LMS)

From my experience with Moodle, Learning Management Systems are a great tool to collaborate all necessary information into one place. Their opportunities include that they are a way of combining any classroom blogs, wikis or other learning objects into one easily accessible location. Another strength that a LMS has is that it is password protected so only certain users can access it. Along with this, it can provide a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week classroom information site which can be accessed by students and parents anywhere, at any time. I like the way that LMS can be formatted so that the information is in categories and hence is easy to find. The weaknesses are that LMS can sometimes be difficult to navigate and occassionally quite overwhelming. Some of the LMS that I have seen are not visually stimulating so this may not spark students' interest.