Moodle options in the process of scientific events preparation and organization

Abstract

The article is devoted to the automation of scientific events preparation through the information technologies introduction. The authors analyzed the current state of the problem, identified the advantages and disadvantages of some information platforms of scientific conferences, substantiated the advantages of free LMS Moodle. A review of scientific literature is presented, three main directions of using Moodle in the educational process are identified and characterized. It is established that the experience of using Moodle in the preparation and organization of scientific and other events is practically not reflected in the publications. The characteristic of the preparatory work algorithm and the procedures for using Moodle system in the preparation of a scientific event with an undetermined number of participants is given, the stages and content of custom blocks are described in detail on the example of a real event. Much attention is given to the creation of a module for collecting and filling out applications, in which the Moodle element Databases is selected. The problem of protecting the participant's personal data and his intellectual work has been solved with the use of different database blanks for participants and for organizers through the Presets tab. The authors describe the main functions that Moodle can solve for organizing events. You can get acquainted with the implementation of the system considered in the article on the Portal of Scientific Conferences of Vologda State Dairy Farming Academy by N. V. Vereshchagin, located at: https:// moodle.molochnoe.ru/sci/