Experience with usage of LMS moodle not only for the educational purposes at the educational institution

Abstract

In general, definition describes the learning management system (LMS) as a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of e-learning courses or programs. At the market with LMS can be found a wide range of LMSs from systems for managing educational records to software for distributing online or blended/hybrid courses over the Internet with features for online collaboration. The use of LMS at the educational institution can help teacher to concentrate on students' needs. The on-line access to all data needed for learning is immense benefit not only for students but for teachers too. Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Kosice (FoE) use LMS Moodle with success by full-time students as supplementary educational tool and by part-time students as main system for distance learning for about 10 years. FoE staff actively participate on different kind of projects and need to share data, cooperate on design of new products via on-line tools, mostly because of its short reaction time. Familiarity with the LMS Moodle acquired through education lead to decision use LMS Moodle also for not only above mentioned educational purposes. Within the paper will be shortly presented our experience with using LMS Moodle for education and also for different non-educational purposes.