MOODLE LMS- ADMINISTRATOR & COURSE INSTRUCTOR ROLE

 

MOODLE LMS-

ADMINISTRATOR & COURSE INSTRUCTOR ROLE

Moodle LMS Overview:

Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) LMS (Learning Management System) works as a Course Management System (CMS). The term course is widely used in this LMS. Each and every course is assigned with a teacher who has several rights to control or edit the course.

The course teacher can use various activities with respect to the teaching learning process. The term activities and resources play an important role for the teacher. It decides the way of giving the inputs to the students and very helpful while assessing the participants.

Rights Permission Hierarchy:

The first thing a teacher is need in the LMS is a course. The course creation process can be done by the course creator or manager of the particular site. There are several roles which has different set of rights. Site administrator is the top most roles who have all sorts of rights to do the changes in the allowed site.

As far as the access rights are concerned, the second most one is manager role. This role has some limited set of rights than the site administrator. For every role, the hierarchical rights can be set by the site administrator. For example, the kind of editing access for the course creator can be set. Based on that, a course creator can give rights to the bottom most roles.                

The course creator can create the courses and structure hierarchy for the teachers. One of the active roles in the Moodle LMS is teacher role. A teacher can use lot of available activities and resources. Within a mapped course, a teacher can perform many editing process inside the activities and resources which they have created.

Next role is student role. This role is having only limited rights. No editing permission is given for this role since the LMS is developed to assess the performance of the students or participants. Finally, guest role and defined role is given to the participants based on the requirements. It is decided by the site administrator.

Activities:

There are lot of activities can be given to the participants to ensure their learning process. One of the most frequently used activities is quiz activity.

1. Quiz Activity:

Quiz activity is used to test the student performance by giving different types of questions. It comprises of set of instructions and the exact duration to appear for the assessment. Access restriction can be given to the quiz. For example, if a student/participant answered for a feedback question then he/she may appear for the quiz activity.

Reviewing the quiz after and before the completion is possible. All these set of criteria’s can be set by the teacher. Once the criteria’s are set, the quiz activity will be created.

1.1 Question Types:

1. Choice based

2. True/False

3. Match the following

4. Short answer

5. Numerical answer

6. Select missing keywords

7. Embedded answers

8. Essay (Auto grade)

All the question types are having a standard template which will be available in MS office word as an add-on. MoodleQuiz is an add-on used in MS word to create the questions.

Once the questions are created with the available template, the file should be saved in the system. Under the quiz category, the file can be uploaded and it will be available for the participants as per the mentioned time.

It performs auto valuation for choice based questions since the correct answer is set with the value “1” while creating the questions. For essay type of questions, teacher can do the manual valuation. The statistical analysis can be done with the automatic valuation.

There is a provision to review the questions and correct answers by the participants after the completion of the quiz. The cumulative marks for a particular course can be viewed by the participants and the respective teacher can analyse the performance for betterment of the participants.

2. Feedback Activity:

            In Feedback activity, the voting from the participants is obtained in different forms. The voting may be in the form of choices or typed information. It allows the administrator/course teacher to conduct surveys.

Rather than choosing the pre defined questions, the course teacher can create the survey questions by their own.  There are different types of feedback available under LMS which are informal feedback, formal feedback, summative feedback, formative feedback etc.

A standard template can be created and saved in the activity rather than creating the same type of questions each and every time.

3. Turnitin Assignment Activity:

            With the help of the Turnitin assignment activity, the participants can submit their assignments within the prescribed due date. The details of the assignment and other extra information’s are displayed inside the activity itself.

After the submission is made, the activity checks for the plagiarism and report the same to the course teacher. Based on the similarity percentage, the course teacher can award the marks. The cumulative reports of all the participants can be downloaded in the form of excel.

With reference to the above stated activities, Moodle LMS paves variety of benefits to the end users through e-learning strategy. The future generation can be adopted for the paperless education. Moodle increases the curiosity among the user community to learn the technology/ courses in an efficient manner.

Posted By:

Dr.V.PRAVEEN M.E, PGDDM, Ph.D

Faculty-CSE

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Tamilnadu, India