Learning management system (Eng. Learning Management System
- LMS) is a software that allows full administration of the global process of
teaching and learning through the Internet. LMS performs the registration of
students, a sequence of courses in the course catalog, a description of the
student data, and allows the reporting done. The system consists of a set of
functionality, LMS can be applied in institutions such as schools, to
government departments and large companies. Its purpose is to class,
institution, company in a short period of time enables centralized environment
of learning through computers regardless of their roles within an institution,
their experiences and on many other factors of which had previously depended.
Based on the parameters necessary for monitoring the process of learning that
the LMS can be recorded at any time to monitor the progress of the individual
employee, or group of students, and at the end of the educational process
reliably measure and analyze the performance of the individual.
LMS users accessing the program through the web browser.
There are several categories of users: administrator, designer, student ... If
a user logs on to the system as a student, they will be shown a different set
of functionality than when the application administrator. The administrator can
view a list of all courses and instructors who are in the LMS, you can add and
move all types of users and content. Instructor (designer) can add and move
materials and tools (discussions, email, chat) with individual items. It can
also assign tasks and form groups of students. A user who is logged on the LMS
as a student can participate in discussions, use e-mail, view, and save
materials to your computer, but there is no possibility to change the content
of the material. Also, students can submit their assignments on the discussion
or evaluation. If LMS features a calendar, a student can use it.
Instructor has available a variety of tools in the LMS
system. Using tools Assigments assigns tasks to students. Tasks can be
addressed by individual students or groups of students. Also, the instructor
can set up and the materials you need to study for the successful fulfillment
of the task. Explanation can set tasks, set goals, and provide a scoring
system. Once a student or group of students make the task of handing ga
Assigment box to score. After the instructor assessment task score is
automatically saved to the database and an instructor / professor job back with
any comments.
Calendar tool is used to set instructor term exams,
deadlines for submission of assignments, and for notifying students. Chat is
available to communicate in real time. Discussion tool is for discussion of a
particular topic.
The instructor can determine who is allowed access to the
discussion. There is also an e-mail to users LMS. The instructor can create
quizzes and surveys to monitor the progress of students.
It is important to note that the LMS provides a high degree
of interaction between the user and instructor, each user of the user and the
content. Students can contact professors and instructors and share ideas.
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