The motivation for an open-sourced course manager arises from a natural rebellion against the straitjackets imposed by  popular commercial course managers adopted by many schools.

One-size-fits-all commercial course managers force effective teachers into cookie-cutter teachers because the software is stored in the central server run by aloof server administrators. Open-sourced course managers allow individual teachers to  serve their own customized source codes from their own desktop server. Not many teachers are capable of customizing the  source codes. But the opportunity of borrowing new source codes from others who could is too enticing to be passed up.

The current version of Ulogistics is customized for:
1. Submission from students of short essays (500 words or less);
2. Submission from students of short answers (200 words or less) to multiple questions with variable     weighted scores;
3. Instant feedback of grades and comments from instructor feedback;
4. Instant posting of grades to grade book;
5. Batch posting of writing assignments that would appear only at specified date;
6. Student access to classmates' submissions either before or after instructor grading;
7. Threaded discussion of assigned topics;
8. Review and practice test on multiple-choice questions generated by instructors or students.

You must become a member to be entitled to the free source codes. Downloaded source codes will expire if they are not  implemented within 60 days.
Users of the original source codes are obligated to submit their customization to Ulogistics for sharing.Users of Ulogistics  source codes can exchange technical support at the Ulogistics forum.Only those users who have implemented the original  source codes are allowed to download user-customized source codes.