Effective E-Learning through Moodle - ijater

keep questions updated based on feedback, to vary thequestions in the quizzes from year to year, and even inpreparing university or class examination papers from time totime.International Journal of Advance Technology & Engineering Research (IJATER)AssignmentAssessments in any learning scenario plays a number of majorroles in giving feedback to the student on where they standwith respect to the subject objectives and with respect to theclass as a whole, and to the tutor on how effective the teachinghas been.For the online submission of assignments we can use the'assignment' option in the activity menu in the block for settingup an assignment. In moodle assignments can be specifiedwith a due date and a maximum grade. Students can uploadtheir assignments in any file format to the server where theyare date-stamped. The use of a small enough file upload sizewill prevent large files from being uploaded choking thesystem. Late assignments are allowed, but the amount oflateness is shown clearly to the tutor. For each particularassignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade andcomment) on one page in one form. Tutor’s feedback isappended to the assignment page for each student, andnotification is mailed out. The tutor can choose to allowresubmission of assignments after grading for doing theregarding.These assignments may be posed as simply feedback devices –not carrying any weightage towards the final score – or as apart of the subject evaluation scheme. In the former, the tutorhas more freedom in posing questions and number of suchassignments posed, but the response may be lower sincestudents may not see any direct benefit.Fig.3 The screen shot of quiz moduleSystem ProtectionAny kind of automation brings with it associated dangers.Computer systems are known for virus attacks, spams,hackers, etc. We can make sure that the Moodle server iswell protected through usual security provisions in thenetwork. The following points must be considered toincrease the protection. Minimize the number of users with administrator roleto reduce risk to the system. Take periodic backup of the courses. Courses can bepackaged as a single zip file using the Backupfunction. These can be restored on any Moodle server[fig.4]. Once the admission is over, set the enrolment modeas through the key, and set the key to some difficultto guess string. It will prevent unwanted users gettingaccess to the course. Specify upload limits that are reasonable wherever astudent is permitted to upload a file.ISSN NO: 2250-3536 Vol. 1, Issue 1, November 2011 37