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Google course builder

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Google Course Builder is an open source, online education platform created by Google in 2012 that can be used to create online courses, whether it's for an entire university offering, professional training, or a corporate product. It is part of Google Open Online Education.

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Features

Course Builder:

  • has a rich feature set
  • massively scales because it runs on Google infrastructure
  • is completely free to use (Google App Engine charges may apply but it comes with a free tier)
  • supports multiple courses on the same instance (multitenancy)
  • has support for Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
  • allows one to keep and own their data
  • allows one to keep their organization's brand
  • requires no programming to create or run a course
  • is relatively quick to get up and running

    • Technology

    Course Builder is built on Google Cloud App Engine, and is supported on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses Python 2.7 under the hood, but no knowledge of the language is needed to create the courses themselves.

    References

    Google course builder Wikipedia
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