ICT60115 Advance Diploma Information Technology: E-learning Report

This report, submitted for ICT60115 Advance Diploma in Information Technology, provides a comprehensive analysis of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and their application in E-learning environments. The report begins with an introduction to LMS, highlighting its features and importance. It then presents an abstract discussing the academic expressiveness of structured courses and the use of Visual Instructional Design Language (VIDL) to aid instructors. The research report section explores the use of LMS technology for e-learning management, referencing studies and methodologies. The report further delves into the technical aspects, explaining 3-tier web and application development environments, including web server configurations and database server functionalities. A benchmark analysis of Moodle, a popular online LMS, is also included. The report concludes with a comparison of Joomla and Moodle, along with references to relevant research papers. The report provides valuable insights into the design, implementation, and evaluation of LMS for educational purposes.

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Table of contents
o Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………3
o Abstract…………………………………………………………………………...................3
o Research report……………………………………………………………………………..4
o Current hardware and software specifications…………………………………………...4
o 3-tier web and application development environment…………………………………..5
o Web server…………………………………………………………………………………..5
o Benchmark for Moodle an online LMS …………………………….…………………….5
o Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………6
o References……………………………………………………………………………………6

Introduction
A Learning Management System conveys content, yet in addition handles enlisting courses,
course organization, expertise hole examination, following, and detailing. Most LMSs are
electronic and are utilized in different instructive establishments and organizations to improve
classroom educating, learning technique, and friends records.
The primary goal of a LMS is to deal with the learning procedure (the name Learning
Management System is essentially obvious). It is a framework since it works in a computerized,
pre-decided way. Or then again we could state framework is an extravagant word for
programming. Points of interest incorporate bolstered eye to eye learning, and on the web and
mixed learning arrangements which encourage and enhance conventional instructive techniques.
LMS can likewise spare association time and cash by permitting the simple organization of a lot
of data in an easy to use, online condition. Furthermore, Features:
• Ease of utilization.
• Integration.
• Content the board.
• Support for portable learning.
• Support for mixed learning.
• Testing and appraisal.
• Reporting and following.
• Security.
Abstract
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are not confined to removed employments. By the by, the
academic expressiveness of structured courses is unequivocally subject to the instructor's
learning and skill about the focused on stage. The subsidized GraphiT venture intends to help
instructors in concentrating on the particular of educationally solid and in fact executable
learning structures. To this end, we propose to help instructors by giving a LMS-explicit Visual
Instructional Design Language (VIDL). This paper proposes a particular LMS-focused
methodology for raising the instructive expressiveness of its understood learning plan semantics.
We talked about, in agreement to the action hypothesis, how the LMS low-level
parameterizations could be disconnected so as to construct more elevated amount building
squares.

Research Report
The goal of this paper is to seek and break down distributed examinations about the use of LMS
innovation for e-learning the board until 2012, to delineate issues that have been researched by
the classes proposed by Roque et al. (2001) and recommend rules for future research in the field.
To direct this examination we embraced the technique for integrative audit. This kind of audit
gives to experts from different fields a speedy access to applicable research discoveries that help
basic leadership, giving basic. The integrative audit technique permits to systematize the logical
information of a specific region of. To the degree that it exhibits an outline of the logical writing
identified with a specific subject, the integrative audit brings specialists and the issue to be
contemplated together. In this specific situation, it perceived the improvement of LMS examines
on e-getting the hang of overseeing after some time and it accordingly permitted to imagine new
conceivable outcomes for research. Similar creators express that the integrative audit ought to
pursue some all around characterized advances:
• Theme recognizable proof and research question determination,
• Establishment of consideration and rejection criteria,
• Identification of pre-chosen and chose examinations,
• Categorization of the chose investigations,
• Analysis and elucidation of results and
• Presentation of the survey and combination of information.
3-tier web and application development environment
A 3-level application design is a measured customer server engineering that includes of an open
stage, a demand stage and a knowledge status. Three-standard plan is a consumer– server
programming engineering construction in which the ui (presentation), proper procedure rationale
(“house rules”), pc information accumulation and knowledge have to are constructed and put up
as autonomous segments, usually on isolated stages. A coordinated advancement condition (ide)
is a device function that gives exhaustive offices to pc software engineers for programming
development. An regularly comprises of a cause code administrator, fabricate computerization
apparatuses, and a debugger. A set forth in which the demands set on the earth can be found
without decreasing its expertise to set up all children to thrive properly, immediately and
subsequently on. Likewise, social imbalance straightforwardly influences ecological
reasonability. An application improvement condition is essentially the gathering unit or the
production building stage of a production operation. Its essential objective is to prove that it
shows extensive application improvement services, can be agreed with vital equipment model
and incorporates application-wide revealing features. For the most separate, ade is exploited to
assemble endeavor wide efforts that should be implemented and heard on a description of
separate processing tools and rear-side or coordinated stages. Ade may consolidate the requisite
equipment plan, for pattern, attendants, pcs and handheld tools, that will have the claim. These

are joined with the product designing assets, for example, a writing computer programs
language's incorporated advancement condition (ide), detailing and examination programming,
investigating apparatuses, and other execution assessment programming utilities.
Web server
A web server is a program that utilizes http (hypertext transfer protocol) to serve the documents
that structure web pages to clients, in light of their solicitations, which are sent by their pcs' http
clients. A web server speaks with an internet browser utilizing the hypertext transfer protocol
(http). While web servers normally have sites that are open on the internet, they can likewise be
utilized to convey between web customers and servers in neighborhood, for example, an
organization's intranet.
List some of the web server name
 Apache http server. This is the most well known web server on the planet created by the
apache software foundation. Web information services.
 The internet information server (IIS) is an elite web server from MICROSOFT.
 Nginx web server .
 Lightspeed.
 Sun java system web server.
 Jigsaw server.
Database server
Database attendant is the call managed to allude to the side with-side adjustment of a database
operation utilizing client/server setup. The advocate-resolution, some of the age announced a
database assistant, completes choices, for precedent, intelligence questionnaire, surplus, word
limit, register, and separate non-patient certain operations. A server can be either a product unit
or an equipment unit. A web server is where you store the substance of a site. A database server
is all the more a product part than an equipment segment. It can give database administrations to
different projects living in a similar pc or some other system.
List few of them in here.
 ORACLE RDBMS
 IBM DB2
 MICROSOFT SQL SERVER
 SAP SYBASE ASE
 TERADATA
 ADABAS
 MYSQL
 FILEMAKER
Benchmark for Moodle an online Lms

Moodle is a freemium internet learning arrangement, where fundamental capacities are free yet
propelled usefulness includes some significant pitfalls. It is a prominent arrangement that fulfills
guideline needs and
Necessities, giving a stable E-learning answer for mid-to-extensive organizations and instructive
associations.
Conclusion
The exploration is centered around striking highlights of Joomla and Moodle stages for E-learning. The
gathered data is based numbers factors considering contrasting two E-learning stages during the time
spent usage of LMS in instructive purposes. The summery of the investigation incorporates, the most
troublesome part is choice of good online stages for E-learning. While looking at two online stages like
Joomla and Moodle, Compare to Moodle, Joomla offers assortment of completely reasonable E-learning
instruments with spearheading preparing and testing alternatives join with a propelled web conferencing
application. In spite of the fact that both Open Source Software offer CMS/LMS E-learning highlights,
Joomla has a propelled client the executives with specific highlights such as self-enlistment and
enlistment choices and adaptable client profiles utilizing independent Joomla segments.
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