Kurdish learning management

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Kurdish Learning Management System
(LMS)
Prepared by Sami Farman Mirza
Supervised by Ranjbar Balisane
• What is LMS?
• Key Features of LMS
• Project Objective
• Project Research
• Research Results
• Selecting the LMS
• Implementation
• Results Produced
• Results Tested
• Problems Faced
• Further Work and
Recommendations
• References
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What is LMS?
Learning Management System (LMS) is a set of
software tools for delivering, tracking and
managing online training and education courses.
LMS opts range from systems for managing
training records to more flexible software for
distributing courses over the Internet and
Offering features for online Authoring
(Dougiamas and Taylor 2003).
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Key Features of LMS
The key features of LMS include but are not limited
to the following:
• Student Self-service
• Self Registration
• Instructor Lead Training
• Skill Groups Management
• User Notifications and Deadlines
• Manager Hierarchies
• Automated Testing Facilities
… and much more
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Project Objective
The project objective was to find a suitable
Kurdish LMS for Soran University and if not
available, then explore the available LMS and
attempt in partial translation of the important
parts of an existing LMS.
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Project Research
• Secondary Research
• Primary Research
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Research Results 1
Based on a questionnaire that was completed by 40
Students from 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 1st year of computer
science we found out that:
1. 38 out of 40 (95%) students would like to use LMS
2. 32 out of 40 (80%) students would like to have the
LMS in Kurdish
3. 24 out of 40 (60%) students did not know what LMS
was
4. All 40 (100%) students wanted to have their results
back in private so that their peers didn’t know one
another's exam results.
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Research Results 2
Researches indicate (Bremer and Bryant 2005)
that the two most popular LMS available are:
1. Blackboard
2. Moodle
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Selecting the LMS?
• Commercial (Blackboard)
• Open Source (Moodle)
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Implementation
Installing XAMPP
- Database (MySQL)
- PHP
- Apache Server
Installing Moodle
Translating the Language
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Results Produced
• Initial Objective was Translation of Important
Parts.
• Final Result was almost Complete Translation (
over 10,000 words and sentences were
translated).
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Results Tested
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Further Work and
Recommendation
• Create Custom Template with Right-To-Left
(RTL) Support Built-in.
• Translate the most popular Modules that are
available.
• Revise the Translation that is already done by
me.
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References
1. Bremer, D. and R. Bryant (2005). A Comparison
of two learning management Systems: Moodle
vs Blackboard. Proceedings of the 18th Annual
Conference of the National Advisory Committee
on Computing Qualifications. NACCQ, New
Zealand. Retrieved February.
2. Dougiamas, M. and P. Taylor (2003). Moodle:
Using learning communities to create an open
source course management system. World
conference on educational multimedia,
hypermedia and telecommunications.
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