1. Importance of Learning Management System
(E learning Platform)
Prepared by: Sopheakmonkol Sok
Lecturer at Specialized Economics and Finance Institute

2. Content
 Why am I passionate to LMS?
 What is LMS or E-learning Platform?
 Result of analysis target group’s needs
 Application features
 Conclusion

3. Why am I so passionate about LMS?
 Personal life experience
 Capable of understanding the importance of education in everyday
life
“I have a dream”
 To reduce illiteracy in the society
 Instructors are facing up against many difficulties in
their professions
 Low salary
 Overload of work
 Lack of motivation from society
 Less participation from students
 Limited access to a high quality curriculum and teaching resources
 Uncomfortable teaching environment, and others

4. What is LMS or E-learning Platform?
 software application or web-based technology
platform
 designed to support delivery, management and
tracking of learning events
 Facilitate learner and instructor to access
to training content and administration
"anytime, any place, any pace"
Benefits of LMS for Business
 The LMS software performs a variety of
functions related to:
 online and in-person training administration provides
additional tools
 support career development
 competency and talent management
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5. Benefits of Learning Management System for
academy
 Reduces photocopying and traveling cost
 Tutors spend less time on admin and more time
teaching
 Learners can catch up with missed classes much
more quickly and easily
 Tutors can use multimedia as learning resources
far more easily and cheaply
 It makes continuous assessment a real, practical
option
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6. Benefits of Learning Management System
 Learners always have access to their grades, attendance
and participation
 It encourages learner independence and better problem
solving skills
 LMS’ promote the social constructivist model of learning
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7. Result of analysis needs of the target group and
difficulties
Key barriers for instructors
 High cost
 Complicated to set up
 Technical knowledge requirement
 Time constraint
Key barriers for learners Response %
Confusing interface 829 70%
Time requirement (e.g. extra workload) 592 50%
Lack of online materials in the LMS 561 48%
Source: Singapore Management University, "LMS Survey Summary," Singapore
Management University, 2009
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8. Learner’ expectation of using LMS
 Attractive user interface and customizable theme
 System speed and stability
 Support more platforms (Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome)
and platform (Mac)
 Easy to navigate in the LMS
 More collaborative tools
 On-going performance indicators
 Students can access scores or rate of personal study performance
in relation to others
 Full permission to view the past and current
school year’s classroom discussions
Source: University of Graz, Austria, 2010, Personal discussions and
experience
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9. Instructor’ expectation of using LMS
 System speed and stability
 Support more platforms
 Easy to navigate in the LMS
 More collaborative tools
 Assessment tools
 Online grade book (60%) | Online assignment submission (49%)
 Discussion boards (43%) | Online quizzes or tests (32%)
 Online collaboration (20%)
 Course Management Tools
 Organization of course content (56%)
 Addition or deletion students/groups (55%)
 Customized online grade books (53%)
 Copying or moving course content within a course section (43%)
 Copying or moving course content between course sections (39%)
Source: University of Graz, Austria (2010), Robert Morris University in
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Pittsburgh, USA (2011) and Personal discussions

10. Essential Features of Moodle (V 2.2) LMS
Testing Features Student Instructor
Customized Look and Feel x x
Extending Repositories and File Management x x
Moodle User Manuals x x
Browser Compatibility x x
Editor x x
Accessing and Evaluating x
Selective Release or Conditional Activities x x
Quiz Activity x x
Moodle Question Bank x
Grade Systems x
Plagiarism Prevention x
Social Activities x x
Social Network Integration x x
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11. New and Most Useful Features of Moodle (V 2.2) LMS
RSS Remote Blocks
 Customized Look and Feel
HTML embedded code
blocks
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12. New and Most Useful Features of Moodle (V 2.2) LMS
Moodle’s accessing and evaluating features
 Quizzes Activities
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13. New and Most Useful Features of Moodle (V 2.2) LMS
Moodle’s accessing and evaluating features
 Third Party Components/Modules of Moodle
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14. New and Most Useful Features of Moodle (V 2.2) LMS
Moodle’s accessing and evaluating features
 Plagiarism prevention Feature
 Crot
 Moss
 Turnitin
 Urkund
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15. New and Most Useful Features of Moodle (V 2.2) LMS
Social Activities/modules Features
 Wiki
 Forum
 Chat
 Workshop
 Glossary
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16. New and Most Useful Features of Moodle (V 2.2) LMS
Social Network Integration
 Add friends, advisers, colleagues and instructors
 Create or join academic discussion groups
 Post blog messages, create pages, and photo galleries
 Promote lectures and course offerings
 Promote academic and professional qualifications
 Share links, articles, ebooks and documents
 Announce special events, plans, or changes
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17. Conclusion
 Get to know Learning Management System
 Benefits of the system for business and academy
 The expectation of target group
 Essential Features
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18. Thank you for your attention 
For more information about LMS and Educational
Network project:
Website: monkol.com
Email to: mkmonkol@gmail.com
Tel: 089 75 44 49
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19. Free Online Courses from Elite Universities
 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
 http://www.academicearth.org
 https://www.coursera.org/
 http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
 Stanford currently offers free online courses via Coursera and
iTunes U.
 iTunes University (iTune U) is service from Apple
 provided many free online courses from the elite universities in UK and
US and it is the first service which provide free open course ware.
http://www.stanford.edu/online/courses
 Interesting article: Free Online Courses from Top Universities Now
a Reality
 http://hadhhogayi.com/free-online-courses-from-top-university-now-a-
reality/
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