Transcript AOU LMS Integrating LMS with SIS 11/5/2015 Arab Open University - Jordan Outline • • • • • • • • 11/5/2015 Introduction E-learning Arab Open University Policy Student Information System Learning Management System Integrating LMS with SIS LMS.

AOU LMS
Integrating LMS with SIS
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Introduction
E-learning
Arab Open University Policy
Student Information System
Learning Management System
Integrating LMS with SIS
LMS Modification and Enhancement
Future Work
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Introduction
• Arab Open University was established in 2002 in the
Arabic region, and adopted the open learning
approach.
• An open learning system is defined as "a program
offering access to individuals without the traditional
constraints related to location, timetabling, entry
qualifications.“.
• With new Internet-Based technologies a new
methodologies to education and teaching in
 E-learning
 Online learning
 Distance learning
 Open learning
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E-learning
• Any learning experience or environment that relies
upon the Internet/WWW as the primary delivery
mode of communication and presentation.
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Arab Open University Policy
• AOU adopted the open learning approach.
• AOU has partnerships with the United Kingdom Open
University (UKOU).
• The aim of AOU is to attract large number of students
who can not attend traditional universities because of
 Work
 Age
 Financial reasons
 Other circumstances
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Student Information System
• What is Student Information System (SIS) ?
Student Information System is an Oracle based system which
was designed to Manage Students information from Accepting
to Graduating . It enable us to Electronically handle any
transactions and issues related to the students.
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Why do we need SIS ?
The system to be built aims at creating a comprehensive and
strong basis for all projects in order to come up with an integral
comprehensive system which will meet all desired goals.
AOUSIS is a complete solution to monitor And control any
information related to student
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Learning Management System
• Learning management system (LMS) is a software
that automates the administration of training events.
• The term LMS is now used to describe a wide range
of applications that track student training and may
include functions to
 manage user logs, course catalogs, and activity reports.
 provide basic communication tools (email, chat, whiteboard,
video conferencing, …)
 manage competency (e-Tests, e-Assignments, …)
 allow personalization (user profiles, custom news, recent
activity, RSS, …)
 Enable monitoring activities (QA, accreditation, external
assessment, …)
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Learning Management System
• AOU use Moodle nowadays as an electronic
platform.
• Moodle is an open-source course management
system (CMS)
• Both students and tutors can access the system from
anywhere with an Internet connection.
• Moodle provides many learning tools and activities
such as
 Forums
 Chats
 Quizzes
 Surveys
 Gather and review assignments
 Recording grades and more...
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Integrating LMS with SIS
• LMS integration with SIS (or LMS-SIS) is a system
used inside the university to
 Reducing accessing time
 Automatically generating accounts
 Minimizing faults, mistakes and errors to null
 Obtaining availability of requirements and simplifying
registering, entering and filling process.
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Integrating LMS with SIS
• AOU Administration
From this screen you
access all integration
processes, it categorized
to a set of operations.
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Integrating LMS with SIS
General Operations
• Import Categories
Create category for each department
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General Operations
• Import Courses
Create course with it’s basic information, also handle two parts
course
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Semester Operations
• Import Users
create account for new students and tutors
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Semester Operations
• Import Time Table
Create time table for the current semester includes (course,
groups, tutors).
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Semester Operations
• Enroll Students
enroll students according to their schedule. We can do this
process as many as required
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Semester Operations
• Tutor Map
Used when tutor assigned to another course or group during the
semester.
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Integrating LMS with SIS
Placement Test Operations
• Import PT Users
Import Placement Test Students, this operation fully automated
which mean no need to visit this page.
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Placement Test Operations
• Upload PT Grades
upload PT grades to SIS after the student finish the exams, this
operation fully automated which mean no need to visit this page.
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LMS Modification and Enhancement
Theme & Login Page
• New Theme created and redesign the login page
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Questionnaire
• Questionnaire Settings
Set the visibility of the questionnaire and determine the open &
close date to force users filling the questionnaire.
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Quality Assurance (Student views of tutor and course)
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Quality Assurance (Student views of the University)
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Quality Assurance (Tutor Views)
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Peer-to-Peer Monitoring
A tutor monitoring a tutorial by a peer colleague
Writing notes
Sending a copy to the program chair
Sending a copy to the Tutor
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Questionnaire
• Questionnaire Reports
Save questionnaire result as Excel sheet format which can be
used in other statistical applications
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LMS Modification and Enhancement
Random Assignments
• Random Assignments
Download a zipped file contains three assignments selected
randomly for each group in each course for quality assurance
purpose.
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Attendance
• Attendance
Sheet for group students which enables the tutor to track
student attendance and allow the student to view his attendance
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Student’s Attendance (Student View)
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Zipped TMA
• Zipped TMA
Download all students submissions as one file, it is helpful
especially when there is too many students.
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Assignment Feedback File
• Assignment Feedback File
Tutor may return a feedback file to the student which contains
tutor notes about TMA submission
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Dialogue Attachment
• Dialogue Attachment
Tutor & student can attach files when using dialogues
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Download Tutor Notes
• Download Tutor Notes
Tutor can download Excel sheet contains (student id, Name,
Grade and comments) which used for archiving purpose.
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Tutor One-Account
• Tutor One-Account
Tutor have one account to access all his groups and courses to
manage its student activities (dialogue, assignment…).
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AOU Learning Environment
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Delivering Packages
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TMA Monitoring
Three samples are selected of
each TMA for each course the
tutor teaches. Samples selected
should be high, average and poor
from the ACES
Samples are sent to another
tutor for monitoring.
Tutor reads them and
remarks them
TMA monitoring form are
filled out
The staff tutor writes
his/her comments
concerning the
correcting and
monitoring of TMAs
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TMA monitoring forms
and TMAs are sent to
staff tutor in charge
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Final Exam and group marking for it
Final exams are grouped marked
A communal final exam
is sent by HQ in
Kuwait. Students in all
branches take the
exam simultaneously.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Each tutor sends exam to
staff tutor
Each tutor of a particular
course will mark specific
questions for all students
ACES (internet)
Sending data to
SIS
After the marking process has been
completed, each tutor receives his/her
students’ exam papers, adds up the marks
and enters the marks into the ACES.
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e-Learning platform: Closer look
e-Learning platform
Learning Object Repository
SIS
(courses)
Databases
Off-line
Learning
Resources
Access authentication
Feedback/progress
Digital
Libraries
CMC
(conferencing, email, chat, WB)
e-Competency
Learning
Management System
(scheduling, archiving, grading, monitoring)
e-Tutoring
(Live tutorials, on-line AV, etc.)
Other features
(tools, templates, etc.)
Quality Assurance Procedures
Intranet Administration and Authentication System
External – Internet Access Requests
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