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Welcome to the NOW - Learning Management System documentation.

The main objetive of NOW - LMS is to be a simple to {install, use, configure, mantain} learning management system (LMS).

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Online education can be used as a primary source of knowledge or as a reinforcement method.

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NOW LMS version 1.0.0 is the first stable release, ready for production use.

First Steps

NOW-LMS is available as a Python Package in Pypi, to run it you just have a recent Python interpreter and run the following commands:

# Python >= 3.11
python3 -m venv venv
venv/bin/pip install now_lms
venv/bin/lmsctl database init
venv/bin/lmsctl serve

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser and login with the default user and password: lms-admin.

This will install NOW - LMS from the Python Package Index with a local WSGI server and SQlite as database backend, for really tiny septups or testing this can work, for a most robust deployment suitable for many users refers to the setup guide.

Server Administration

For production deployments, comprehensive server administration best practices are available:

NOW-LMS aims to offers a full online learning experience and is influenced by others project.