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Implantation of an Open Source Moodle Platform Across an Educational Institution


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E-learning includes the use of open source and commercial tools and technologies to enhance teaching learning process, which have become familiar to students and faculty across the globe over the past decade. An online Learning Management System (LMS) provides basic tools to share course materials and other education related plug-in to communicate with students and, faculty for collecting assignments and manage grading method using open source platforms. This article describes the use and full deployment of Moodle, an open source e-learning LMS developed by Galgotias University which is one of the renowned educational institution in north India, into its teaching learning process for its 20000+ users which includes students and faculty. In this research paper we have discussedabout the use of monitoring tools used by the management and higher authorities, use of automated assessment and learning tools for students belonging to engineering and non-engineering domains, management of courses and enrolling users to the courses. The assessment analysis consists of moodle functionalities based on adhoc SQL queries, reports and statistical analysis of moodle activities performed by users of Galgotias University. The result displays the positive engagement of students and faculties on moodle, use of moodle for assessment of students using Virtual Programming Lab (VPL), Quiz, Project Based Learning (PBL), Simulations, Assignments based on rubrics, virtual classes, feedback and surveys.

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LMS, E-Learning, Moodle, Survey, Assessment.
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Authors

Anurag Singh
School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, India
J. Jeevanandam
School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, India
Sushama
School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, India

Abstract


E-learning includes the use of open source and commercial tools and technologies to enhance teaching learning process, which have become familiar to students and faculty across the globe over the past decade. An online Learning Management System (LMS) provides basic tools to share course materials and other education related plug-in to communicate with students and, faculty for collecting assignments and manage grading method using open source platforms. This article describes the use and full deployment of Moodle, an open source e-learning LMS developed by Galgotias University which is one of the renowned educational institution in north India, into its teaching learning process for its 20000+ users which includes students and faculty. In this research paper we have discussedabout the use of monitoring tools used by the management and higher authorities, use of automated assessment and learning tools for students belonging to engineering and non-engineering domains, management of courses and enrolling users to the courses. The assessment analysis consists of moodle functionalities based on adhoc SQL queries, reports and statistical analysis of moodle activities performed by users of Galgotias University. The result displays the positive engagement of students and faculties on moodle, use of moodle for assessment of students using Virtual Programming Lab (VPL), Quiz, Project Based Learning (PBL), Simulations, Assignments based on rubrics, virtual classes, feedback and surveys.

Keywords


LMS, E-Learning, Moodle, Survey, Assessment.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16920/jeet%2F2019%2Fv33i2%2F138689