edu-sharing vs Torus

edu-sharing connects learning platforms and educational software so organizations can share learning content, metadata, and tools across connected systems. It combines an educational cloud, OER search, and cloud storage for learning materials, tools, and teaching scenarios. Users can create private, shared, and editorial collections and control who may use them. Listed plug-ins cover Moodle, ILIAS, MediaWiki, TYPO3, and OpenOLAT; connectors are available for OnlyOffice and ONYX Editor. Identity connections include LDAP, Shibboleth, and SSO, and a REST API follows the OpenAPI Specification. Organizations can install edu-sharing on their own servers and adapt it to their requirements. The product is open source and free to download. Service partners offer hosting, installation, configuration, updates, training, and support. Its Android and iOS app requires an accessible edu-sharing repository with rendering service and an account. The maker describes offerings for schools, universities, public authorities, businesses, and associations.

Torus is a free, open-source platform for creating, delivering, and optimizing adaptive learning experiences. It combines course authoring and delivery with rich text, media, and interactive activities. Educators can use, adapt, remix, publish, and version learning components and course derivatives. The Activity Bank stores reusable activities such as quiz questions that can be searched, tagged, and aligned with learning objectives. Branched multiple-choice activities route learners to follow-up questions based on responses. By default, scoring counts all activities on a page, so completing a branch may not produce full credit or a completion checkmark. Torus tracks performance in real time to help educators refine content. It supports LTI 1.3, an extensible activity framework, API access, and managed or self-hosted deployment. The MIT license permits commercial use and industry collaboration. Version 33 added an Instructor Intelligent Dashboard, Adaptive Pages enhancements, template changes, accessibility improvements, and 151 platform updates.