Course Management System
Myriad Soft Corporation
What is CMS?
Course Management System (CMS), is a e-learning platform (also known as a or Learning Management System (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)).
Who uses CMS?
CMS is used in 208 countries in 75 languages.
OVERVIEW
CMS in relation to e-Education seems to provide an alternative solution in improving the traditional classroom-based education.
CMS is an innovative approach for delivering instruction in online using the WWW as the instructional delivery system. Its rich information source and its universal access creates a suitable resource-based platform for both students and instructors in learning perspective.
What is more important is its interactive and collaborative nature that allows a community of learners to exchange knowledge, ideas and even their learning skills.
Con...
The Course Management Systems (CMS) is also known as a or Learning Management System (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) come with a set of goals basically for supporting web based education environment. CMS is used with e-learning based approach, it allows students to view the VLE in online with no effect in their learning.
The solution for this can be found through the use of CMS to carry out the interactive and collaborative activities, to provide a proper and complete on-line course environment in a CMS.
What is CMS?
CMS can easily be used to:
Create, deliver and manage web-based content for courses. Add online elements to traditional courses (to supplement current in-class instruction). Facilitate and deliver completely online courses asynchronously or with limited face-to-face interaction.
What is CMS?
CMS can easily be used to: Communicate, real-time and/or asynchronous collaboration and communication tools Assess integrated quizzes and grade books Manage course/content: upload course materials (audio, video, documents like .doc, .pdf, .ppt files), link to other sites, embed files and resources
What is CMS?
CMS can easily be used to: Attach files for students to download Link to resources anywhere on the internet Create rich, vibrant and interesting classroom environments without learning HTML Easily manage your course from year to year (never lose your work!)
What is CMS?
CMS can easily be used to:
Continue your class discussions online Chat online with students Engage students in discussions forums Help students collaborate over the internet, within their groups and within the classroom.
What are the benefits?
Engage all learning styles Provide multiple methods for learning the same material Decrease paperwork (green solution!)
Engage digital natives where they learn best
How do I start?
Following are the ways we can start using CMS:
1. Using it via web:
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Platform Windows, Linux and Mac OS
CMSs Main Features
Course Management Features - Modules
Virtual Classroom - CMSs Live Class web conferencing module enables users to schedule and deliver online classes using the Virtual Classroom.
This web based virtual classroom is equipped with real-time collaboration tools like, live chat, audio and live video streams for multiple people, whiteboard, screen and content sharing (.doc, .docx, .pdf, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx, .swf, .flv and YouTube videos).
Besides, administrators can download attendance reports, and students with permissions can view/download class recordings.
CMSs Main Features
Course Management Features - Modules
Assignment: Used to assign online or offline tasks; learners can submit tasks in any file format (e.g. MS Office, PDF, image, a/v etc.). Chat: Allows real-time synchronous communication by learners. Chat logs can be recorded. Choice: Instructors create a question and a number of choices for learners; results are posted for learners to view. This module is used to do quick surveys on subject matter.
Database: Allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any conceivable topic.
CMSs Main Features
Course Management Features - Modules
Forums: Threaded discussion boards for asynchronous group exchange on shared subject matter. Participation in forums can be an integral part of the learning experience, helping students define and evolve their understanding of subject matter.
Students are able to communicate amongst each other with the discussion board.
CMSs Main Features
Course Management Features - Modules
Glssary Create a glossary of terms used in a course. Has display format options including entry list, encyclopedia, FAQ, dictionary style and more. Label Add descriptions with images in any area of the course homepage. Lesson Allows instructor to create and manage a set of linked "Pages". Each page can end with a question. The student chooses one answer from a set of answers and either goes forward, backward or stays in the same place in the lesson.
CMSs Main Features
Course Management Features - Modules
Quiz Create all the familiar forms of assessment including true-false, multiple choice, short answer, matching question, random questions, numerical questions, embedded answer questions with descriptive text and graphics.
CMSs Main Features
Course Management Features - Modules
Resource The primary tool for bringing content into a course; may be plain text, uploaded files, links to the web, Wiki or Rich Text (CMS has built-in text editors) or a bibliography type reference. Survey This module aids an instructor in making online classes more effective by offering a variety of surveys (COLLES, ATTLS), including critical incident sampling. Workshop An activity for peer assessment of documents (Word, PP etc.) that students submit online. Participants can assess each others project. Teacher makes final student assessment, and can control opening and closing periods.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features
The CMS must manage learners in a variety of ways. Learner management includes: Access to information about learners in a course. Ability to segment participants into groups.
Site, course and user calendar event scheduling.
And so much moree.g. applying scales to different learner activities, managing grades, tracking user access logs and uploading external files for use within the course etc.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Participants
The CMS must manage learners in a variety of ways. Learner management includes:
One click and you can view activity from all participants enrolled in the course. Learners create a personal profile that can include a picture, helping connect students socially in the online learning community.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Groups
Assigning learners to a group is a common practice in education and business. Moodle allows the course instructor to easily create group categories, and determine how members will interact with each other and within various activities.
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Learner Management Features Calendar
Keeping a calendar of events is important to both the learner and course instructor. Events can be created for different categories, including: Global events that appear in all courses (system admin). Course events set by an instructor.
Group events set by instructor relative only to a group.
User events set by learner (e.g. due dates, personal etc.). Upcoming Events appear on the course homepage, alerting the learner across all courses they are enrolled in of different category events. Alerts are color-coded by category.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Roles
Roles for specific participants can be defined for each course An admin account controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by assigning users to courses. Course creators can create courses, teach in them, and assign others to teacher roles.
Teachers are a role in a specific course.
Non-editing teacher roles are available for adjuncts, and part-time tutors.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Blogs
Blogs in CMS are user based - each user has their own Blog. Admins, teachers, and students can create Tags - Admins can create site level tags, teachers can create Course level tags, and students can create their own list of tags. When a blog entry is created, a user can select which tags they wish to associate with their new entry. Multiple tags can be selected. Users can also select who they want the blog entry to be available to (depending on the blog visibility site setting).
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Admin
The Administration control panel puts all important learner management functions a single click away. Teachers and Students can be manually enrolled or removed from a course. Configuration of course Backup and Restore is achieved on a single screen.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Grades
The Grades feature in CMS provides a quick view of all Forum, Assignment, Quiz, Lesson and Workshop grades. The grading scale applied to a learners submission is shown, along with a cumulative total, on a single page.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Scales
Instructors may define custom Scales to be used for grading Forums and Assignments. Standard scales include assigning a value from 1-100% for each submission (or no grade), and indicating whether the learner was demonstrating one of three characteristics in the activity: Shows mostly CONNECTED knowing. Shows mostly SEPARATE knowing. Equally separate and connected.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Grades
Viewing Assignment submissions and adding Grades and comments, are done from a single page that displays all enrolled students.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Logs Monitor when and what course resources the learner has accessed. CMS's Logs provide detailed learner activity.
CMSs Main Features
Learner Management Features Files
Centrally locate all course resources within the Files area of CMS so they are available when creating new activities.
Files storage area resembles your computer, making it easy to add, move, zip and delete resources.
CMSs Main Features
Plugins
A plug-in is a computer program that interacts with a
host application to provide a certain function.
CMS has different plugins so that you can customize your platform.
This makes CMS a very flexible learning environment.
Starting with CMS
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Positioning blocks
Hide block Assign roles to a block
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Editing an activity block
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Group
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Editing a topic block Show only this topic
Highlight this topic as the current topic Hide this topic from students Move Topic Down
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Adding a Resource into a Topic
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Adding an Activity into a Topic
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Adding Blocks
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Admin Panel
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Examples of CMS courses
Questions
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