E-learning framework, on-line tests

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:08:56 +0000

I’ve been involved in lecturing courses on IT support of Project Management and Big Data at institutions during the last years. As there have been many participants I’ve been looking into solutions to facilitate the homework hand-in and evaluation process and the automated assessment of final tests. The main idea was to support me and not me supporting the system - so an out-of-the-box working tool was preferred. After some tries on automated test creation with Limesurvey - which is a great tool for survey creation - I found Moodle which supports not only a lot easier test creation but the whole e-learning process. The tool is open-source, has great documentation and great functionality - which of only a few pieces I use regularly. So to share news with a specified group, assign homework with deadlines and create automated, shuffled tests - the use-cases I need - it does all. Let’s install it on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server. In terminal:

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E-learning framework, on-line tests