README

What is Occam?
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Occam is a simple e-learning system. 

Teachers can create courses with an arbitrary number and order of lessons and
tests.  Lessons can be written in plain text or richt text through a builtin
WYSIWIG editor and can contain rich media being rendered by Horde's MIME
viewer system.  Tests can currently contain any number of multiple choice
questions, but the test system can easily be extended by new test types.

Students see a list of all available courses but only have access to the
lessons and tests they subscribed to.  Once starting a course they can view
the lessons and do the intermediate test as often as they like, though the
teacher has the option to restrict the course to a certain duration or
timeframe.  Once they feel comfortable with the learned lessons they can run
the final exam, again as often as they like but with each test result being
recorded.

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.  OSI Certified is a
certification mark of the `Open Source Initiative`_.

.. _`Open Source Initiative`: http://www.opensource.org/


Obtaining Occam
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Further information on Occam and the latest version can be obtained at: 

  http://www.horde.org/occam/


Documentation
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The following documentation is available in the Occam distribution:

:README_:          This file
:LICENSE_:         Copyright and license information
:`docs/CHANGES`_:  Changes by release
:`docs/CREDITS`_:  Project developers
:`docs/INSTALL`_:  Installation instructions and notes
:`docs/TODO`_:     Development TODO list


Installation
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Instructions for installing Occam can be found in the file INSTALL_ in the
``docs/`` directory of the Occam distribution.


Assistance
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If you encounter problems with Occam, help is available! 

The Horde Frequently Asked Questions List (FAQ), available on the Web at
 
  http://www.horde.org/faq/

The Horde Project runs a number of mailing lists, for individual applications
and for issues relating to the project as a whole.  Information, archives, and
subscription information can be found at

  http://www.horde.org/mail/

Lastly, Horde developers, contributors and users also make occasional
appearances on IRC, on the channel #horde on the freenode Network
(irc.freenode.net).


Licensing
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For licensing and copyright information, please see the file LICENSE_ in the
Occam distribution.

Thanks,

The Occam team


.. _README: ?f=README.html
.. _LICENSE: http://www.horde.org/licenses/asl.php
.. _docs/CHANGES: ?f=CHANGES.html
.. _docs/CREDITS: ?f=CREDITS.html
.. _INSTALL:
.. _docs/INSTALL: ?f=INSTALL.html
.. _docs/TODO: ?f=TODO.html

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