Assessment of LMS Hardware, Software, and Stakeholders - ICTICT509

This assignment solution addresses key aspects of a Learning Management System (LMS) project, as outlined in the ICTICT509 unit. It begins by detailing the minimum hardware and software requirements for hosting an LMS, catering to different learner capacities. The solution then describes the general features and capabilities of an LMS, emphasizing its role in modern educational and corporate training environments, including integrated virtual classrooms, technical support, customizability, and communication management. Furthermore, the assignment analyzes the roles and purposes of various stakeholders involved, including faculties and students, distinguishing between primary, secondary, and key stakeholders. It also identifies common interests and concerns among stakeholders, such as business success, environmental impacts, and safety. The solution highlights the benefits of stakeholder analysis and proposes quality assurance practices like developing a quality assurance plan, conducting audits, and implementing the PDCA cycle to ensure project success.

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Questions & Answers
1 Relating to the LMS researched in Assessment 1, you are to describe the following.
Minimum hardware
requirements to host
LMS systems
Hardware Requirements
For up to 10,000 Learners
 CPU: Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4809 v2
 RAM: 32 GB
 Storage: 100 GB
For up to 50,000 Learners
 CPU: Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4890 v2
 RAM: 64 GB
 Storage: 150 GB
For up to 100,000 Learners
 CPU: 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4890 v2
 RAM: 128 GB
 Storage: 200 GB

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Minimum software
requirements to host
LMS systems
 Browser Plugin: Adobe Flash Player 26.0+ plug-in
 Internet Browsers: Firefox 54.0.1+, Internet Explorer 11.0+, Safari 10.0+,
Google Chrome 53.0, or Opera
 Internet Connection: Broadband connection with 500+ Kbps

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2 Relating to the LMS researched in Assessment 1, describe the general features and capabilities of one
LMS system

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LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)
A learning management system has become an important part of educational institution and large company for
training session. It provides opportunities based on professional and personal development and it has been
real challenge for administrators to control and manage everything. The main features of LMS are as follows:
Integrated virtual classroom in LMS: A familiar virtual learning environment helps learners to get straight into
learning on each new e-course signing for.
Technical support in LMS: When things go wrong, it became important to know technical assistance is just a
few clicks.
Customisable and multi-lingual: The most valuable pieces of software that can be required within few clicks.
Communication management in LMS: LMS helps in proper and clear communication between faculties and
students.

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3 What is the role and purpose of each stakeholder involved in your project from Assessment 1
Faculties: The role of faculties is to provide knowledge and education to students. The purpose of faculties is to
monitor disciplinary acts among students and help them in accessing LMS.
Students: The role of students is to gather training and knowledge from training institute. These students are
participants in the survey.
4 Describe the differences between Primary, Secondary and Key stakeholders

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Primary stakeholders: These people have directly invested their money in the organization. Therefore, they are
directly affected by success or failure of the organization. Primary stakeholder varies depending on type of
concerned project that need to be analysed according to criteria including gender, income and resource.
Secondary stakeholders: These people are not directly involved in any type of investment. However, they are
involved in decision making system but not directly affected.
Key stakeholder: Key stakeholders are subset of stakeholders who have power to prevent the project from
achieving its full set of objectives and potentially may cause the project to fail.
5 List 3 different common interests / concerns stakeholders generally have in research projects
The three common interest of stakeholders are as follows:
 Stakeholders have interest on success and profit of businesses.
 It can be based on social change in the environment with investment done in the business.
 Safety and security of environment has been one of the common interest of stakeholders.
6 List 3 benefits in identifying and analysing stakeholders and their interests during research based
projects

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LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)
There are various benefits of identifying and analysing interest of stakeholders:
 It helps in identifying more ideas related to development and implementation of project.
 It helps in creating a social binding with the community involved in the project. Bridging social capital,
which creates connections among diverse groups that might not otherwise interact, is perhaps the most
valuable kind.
 It helps in increasing chances of success of effort involved in the project.
7 List 3 different quality assurance practices that should be implemented when defining the project
undertaken in Assessment 1

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Following are the three quality assurance practices:
 Developing a quality assurance plan
 Audit Project quality
 Implement PDCA cycle in the project