Derek Morrison, Director, Centre for the Development of New Technologies in Learning, University of Bath, discussess the issues around institutions locking into one VLE, or Virtual Learning Environment, and some of the alternatives available. This paper (word doc) includes several screenshots that may be a good resource for demonstrating the possibilities.
He reaches the conclusion that...
"My opening statements raised the spectre of an e-learning monoculture developing unless we reduce our dependency on a few mainstream commercial players. The JISC et al vision plus work taking place in the international open source community suggests that this is exactly the wrong time to be 'locking in' to any one solution. Unfortunately, key decision makers within institutions may not be receiving the message and place greater emphasis on bringing themselves into line with the enterprise decisions already made by other institutions in their regional or collaboration cohort."