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MCA Moodles
title to be pronounced similar to hakka noodles....... macca moodles
I had known that the admins at the unigoa server were fiddling with a moodle
installation and from the date-of-joining of one of our professors could tell
it's been many months in use now. but this semester we got hands on experience
for our subjects CS22 (Operating Systems) and PL28 (UNIX Programming Lab).
thanks to yma pinto ma'am that we got to experience this system at such an
early stage of our course...probably the seniors might have done too but
they're not too open-source about it...y'know "finger on your lips" ;)
I had my first encounter with Moodle when a course on "how foss affects
political science" was announced on ilug-goa list. it was a free for all (free
registration required) and although the course had a nice discussion going
on...it clashed with my exams (after all which good event doesn't...right?), so
i couldn't do any submissions....ok ok i must say the stuff flew over muh head.
in fact there was some informative discussion going on among people who
actually influence the IT policy of various country's governments and their
experiences on convincing their govt's to go open source.
AFAIK Goa Engineering College is the first implementation in Goa. Following
suit were (and still running i believe strongly are) Goa Institute of
Management and Goa University. Last time I heard that GIM are having their
moodle implementation made available only to their intranet users. Are there
any more installations in Goa...that are publicly available?
Moodle enables a teacher to interact with the students of the course by means
of :
* forums that the students can discuss their queries on
* resources like notes and presentations pertaining to the particular course
* event announcements like tests and assignment submissions
* messaging between members of the group...dunno if ma'am cud look into the
PM's ;)
* having your own profile with info about you and your online
destinations...this implementation had a blank to optionally enter your Skype
ID... :)
* students can upload their assignment reports or whatever documents they
create for submission through this portal. i still gotta try out a few things
to see if the system is buggy.. it says it has a 2mb filesize limit...so wud it
accept zip'd files? should be....what about too many memebrs uploading a lot of
content simultaneously.
It's better if you tried your hands on at one of our courses which allow guest
access. The steps are: -
1. Visit the e-learning homepage of goa university
2. Click on "Login as guest"
3. Scroll down the list of courses till you reach the MCA section and click
on the title: Operating Systems CS22)
4. you'll be asked for the enrolment key. enter "mcacs2206" (without
quotes). don't worry u can't add content to the site, so just look thru the
profiles and the resources.
5. explore, and do give your feedback. you could also check out the GEC
implementation as well.
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