“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you,” Prof. Sweet Mercy F. Pacolor, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, shared the words of B.B. King to Samar State University’s faculty as she delivered her talk about the “Introduction of Moodle Based LMS” during the first day of the university’s Trainer’s/Faculty In-House Training, Wednesday, June 24, 2020.
In the new normal phase, she tackled about Moodle specifically on teaching tools, educational technology, instructional design, Learning Management System, online learning, and online education. Moodle has vast documentation and continuous usability enhancements that make it direct to learn and utilize.
“Learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators, and learners with a single robust, secure, and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. Learning Management System allows you to manage content, record and measure learning data, and communicate with users,” Pacolor pointed out.
She highlighted about the general features like modern easy to use interface, personalized dashboard, collaborative tools and activities, all-in-one calendar, convenient file management, simple and intuitive text editor, notifications, and track progress. She also shared some of the administrative features such as the customizable site design and layout, secure authentication and mass enrolment, multilingual capability, bulk course creation, and easy backup, manage user roles and permissions, supports open standards, high interoperability, simple plugin management, regular security updates, and detailed reporting and logs. Besides, the course development and management features could focus about direct learning paths, may encourage collaboration, embed external resources, multimedia integration, group management, marking workflow, in-line marking, peer and self-assessment, integrated badges, outcomes and rubrics, competency-based marking, security, and privacy, respectively.
Some moodle jargons were also emphasized by the speaker, such as course, block, plugin, category, resource, section, filter, activity, and role. She added that if a user is enrolled as a student, they won’t be able to access the course creation page, edit activities or assess assignments which meant what a user is allowed to do or not do on Moodle.