MOODLE – COMPUTERIZED DISTANT LEARNING SUPPORT SYSTEM

Abstract

Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is the system developed by the English-speaking community around the world for more than 10 years, supports both, offline and online training. In most cases, Moodle is used to support and connect learning face-to-face with online training, as well as with other types of learning. Moodle allows you to ask all sorts of questions and assess responses in a variety of ways. The central concept of Moodle is a course in which one or more teachers offer students resources (such as files, folders, Web pages) and participate in interactive activities (such as forums, wikis, blogging, lessons, seminars, assignments, examinations). Students and teachers can change roles, mutually assess each other, share knowledge on the topics of study in the glossary and database system. In the English-speaking world, there are public sites with detailed documentation on Moodle, which is constantly verified and modified in accordance with emerging new versions of the system; Russian versions do not have public sites with detailed translation of the English-language documentation. On what and to whom you want to perform actions in the daily practice of the modern versions, only the barest of outlines on paid seminars and presentations to those who started the implementation of Moodle in your organization are given. And this despite the fact that the system has a great variety of Moodle (over 500) settings with different levels of functionality to be performed, to maintain and develop specially organized by the team of specialists. The question is not only about creating a training course in Moodle. It's about maintaining the of the system within the institution, such as a University. Under the health maintenance means: availability and preservation of up-to-date documentation on system and manuals on Moodle separately for administrators, managers, teachers and students at their level, training consultants for each level and help Moodle users to carry out their work in an ever-growing versions of this system. The second important feature of the group is to perform administrative work on authentication of users and transfer/expulsion from the course assignment and modification of the roles, responsibilities and opportunities of users of Moodle, backing up, and take the necessary measures to ensure the confidentiality and security, implement the necessary measures for transfer students with the course on the course, at the end of the semester or school year, maintaining the required accounting and reporting documents, and so on. This article tries to understand the enormous potential of Moodle in transposition on the duties of the officers of the ad hoc group support this system within the University as a whole. Only competent and timely response to the needs of the teachers involved in the conduct of training courses in Moodle environment can allow to achieve a high level of educational services.