MoodleNAAF Moodle Notifier And Assignment Forum Overview of the project

Group Members Chamila Liyanage Chankanie Dayarathna Dulanja Liyanage Maheshini Kiridigala

Problem Student’s need of an official but informal way to discuss with their lecturers. Need to raise questions even when the lecturer is far away from the student and vice versa. Need of getting notifications regarding any educational related events takes place at the institute.

About Moodle Free and Open Source Learning management system. based on currently used learning and teaching principles Used both wide scale and small scale connect together different kinds of functionality which are in the form of modules / Plug-ins

What is MoodleNAAF MoodleNAAF introduce solutions for above discussed problems. MoodleNAAF is a project designed to interact with world’s most widely used Learning Management System, Moodle Single project containing two plug-ins Each Module designed for a specific task

MoodleNAAF cont... Notifier Assignment Forum ProjectPlug-Ins

Moodle Notifier Sends alerts to mobile phones via SMS Sends notifications via s, required by the user User has the ability to choose from a list, for which matters he needs to get notifications Users can ask for reminders In case of a sending notification failure, system automatically will try until success.

Technical basis of Notifier Technology Used - Microsoft.NET Framework Visual Studio Microsoft Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library 4.0 Data Components - MySql Connector.net ATSMS Library

Notifier - Design Overview A Time based Windows Service Built on 3 Tier Architecture No Application Level Integration only DB Integration Design is Based on Database Views Which is Supported by Almost All Relational DB’s Maintains a full history of all actions that can be house kept Supports SMS Sending Through GSM Modem (Or GSM Enabled Mobile Phone)

Moodle Assignment Forum Starts with – Lecturer uploads an assignment And – Students who follows the related course gets notifications via SMS and s. – If the student has any concerns to be clarified he can log in to the Assignment forum and post his question – Or he can SMS the question to the forum

Moodle Assignment Forum Cont... When the Moodle Assignment Forum receives the post it checks for several conditions – Is the post Private or Public – Does the post contains the course ID – Is the post contains characters greater than 145 an alert is sent to the other party If and only if the post is public it will be displayed in the forum.

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