Bodington is a free open source Virtual Learning Environment/Learning Management System in use at Universities and Colleges worldwide. The Bodington project exists to provide an open source environment to support learning, teaching and research. It is particularly suitable for complex, multi-disciplinary and large organisations and for inter institutional collaboration. It delivers controlled access using open standards.

About Bodington

Bodington can be used to support teaching and learning across the entire range of learning institutions in the UK and worldwide. Bodington is currently deployed in production at sites including the University of Leeds, University of Oxford and the UHI Millennium Institute.

Bodington is now available to colleges, schools and university departments who lack the expertise to run it themselves. Campus Academicus, a commercial hosting service is built with Bodington and is launching in 2008. Campus Academicus is the brain child of Jon Maber the author of the original version of Bodington.

Bodington enables users to upload lecture notes, host discussion fora, publish and manage external links, create interactive resources, e.g. customised logbooks, peer-reviewed reflective diaries/e-portfolios (for PDP), multiple choice tests (QTI), short-answer papers and online surveys. Students can also port work into secure 'pigeon-holes' for marking.

Oxford University is a large complex institution, which encourages interdisciplinary studies. We needed a robust, scalable, flexible system that could cope with our needs, and one that was cost-effective. Bodington has proved ideal.
Dr Stuart D Lee, Head of the Learning Technologies Group, University of Oxford. Case Study

Choose Bodington...

• Put material on the web quickly and easily.
• Control access to material quickly and easily.
• Brand and customise for local look and feel.
• Run servers on Microsoft, Linux, UNIX, or Mac OS X platforms.
• Run a reliable and scalable service for end users.
• Run services for tens of thousands of registered users.
• Give access to users on any platform using standard browsers.
• Be part of a growing, thriving development community.
• Help shape future functionality.
• Use software that is built specifically for Further and Higher Education.
• Integrate access with partner organisations using built-in Shibboleth functionality.
• Keep in line with the JISC e-learning framework.
• Customise the source code to meet local needs.
• Free up more funds to support staff development, customisation, help desk etc.

Choose other software...

• Be tied down to a fixed pedagogy.
• Fail in your obligation to support users with disabilities.
• Pay an annual licence fee.
• Pay for upgrades and support services.
• Have little or no influence on future functionality