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1. Experience with the adaptation
of Moodle source code
Boro Jakimovski
University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje

2. Moodle
 Moodle is a coursework software that
can be easely used for building and
management of online courses
 Several very useful aspects of
Moodle:
 It is free
 If is very modular
 It has a great development community
for building custom modules

3. Moodle at our institution
 Moodle has been used as a
coursework software at our faculty in
the past year for several courses
 After the initial installation, Moodle
has been translated by the students
as part of a one course project
 Also the Moodle tutorial was localized

4. Moodle usage
 Moodle can be used to organize the
courses using several basic elements:
 Resources
 Activities

5. Resources
 Compose a text page
 Compose a web page
 Link to a file or a web site
 Display directory
 Add a IMS Content Package
 Insert a label

6. Acticvities
 Assignment  LAMS
 Chat  Lesson
 Choice  Quiz
 Database  SCORM/AICC
 Exercise  Survey
 Forum  Wiki
 Glossary  Workshop

7. Assignment
 One of the mostly used acctivities is
the assignments
 We use the assignments to both give
assignments and mark them
 There are three standard types of
assignements:
 Offline activity
 Online activity
 Upload single file

8. Need for new assignment type
 Already implemented assignment
types are:
 Online activity
 Offline activity
 Upload single file
 We imediately saw that moodle
lacked two types of assignments that
we used to give
 New kind of upload single file activity
 New kinf of offline activity

9. New kind of upload single file
 Upload single file activity is suitable
for project kind of activity where
students are given a problem and
they later upload the solution
 But the projects that we usually give
is an individual or group project
 Since this is not possible with the
current upload single file, we needed
to make a new kind of assignment
type

10. New kind of offline assignment
 Offline assignments are assignments
that take place outside of Moodle and
the results are not available to
Moodle
 Then teacher needs to enter the
points that each student has done in
that assignment
 We have one such activity:
 eTesting system is often used for
examination

11. New kind of offline assignment
 Since we can have many students, to
avoid manual entering which can lead
to the possibility for error and is very
time consuming we implemented
another kind of assignment which
enables very fast grading of such
activities

12. Implementation
 The implementation was very easy
since Moodle is very well structured
and well documented
 Because of its object oriented
design, for introducing new
assignemet types one needs to:
 Inherit the class that represents the
assignment
 Put the new class and aditional files in
certain folder

13. Implementation
 The implementation of assignments is
in the file:
 mod.html which is the page where the
assignment is configured (mainly a form
for inputting parameters for the
assignment)
 assignment.class.php
 Inherit the class assignment_base
 Reimplement needed methods for viewing
and evaluation of the assignment

14. Implementation
 At the end we need to put this two
files in the folder:
<MOODLE_HOME>/mod/assignemt/type/<NAME_OF_ASSIGNMEN
T>
 The assignment shows immediately in
Moodle

15. Screenshots

16. Screenshot

17. Fastgrading

18. Conclusion
 Moodle is very good and easy to
modify coursework software
 Being very modular allows very good
customization and upgradeability
 The community for implementation of
Moodle is very active and new
versions are emerging constantly