Improving Moodle with WIRIS and M-QIT

E-learning
Authors

Ángel Mora Bonilla

Enrique Mérida Casermeiro

Domingo López-Rodríguez

Published

1 July 2010

Publication details

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Volume 4

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Abstract

Moodle is one of the most extended LMS. Moodle allows the collaborative learning where students and teachers collaborate on the daily work. But problems with Moodle arise in our scientific context. Although Moodle can preview LaTeX code, not all the possibilities of LaTeX are available and it is very good for scientific teachers but hard for students, so, the mathematical formulas are usually replaced by non-standard versions of them written in ASCII. Another problem with Moodle is the difficulty of reusing quizzes. We present two tools that improve Moodle in three aspects: representation of math formulas, mathematical computation, and improving the learning units for the students. WIRIS is a powerful editor and allows interacting by using mathematic formulas in an easy way and developing new learning units with mathematical computation via web; M-QIT is a new tool able to manage and reutilize quizzes and questions available in previous courses in Moodle.

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[BCL10] A. M. Bonilla, E. M. Casermeiro, and D. López-Rodríguez. “Improving Moodle with WIRIS and M-QIT”. In: ICEIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Volume 4, SAIC, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 8 - 12, 2010. Ed. by J. Filipe and J. Cordeiro. SciTePress, 2010, pp. 75-80.

@inproceedings{BonillaCL10,
     author = {Angel Mora Bonilla and
     Enrique Mérida Casermeiro and
     Domingo López{-}Rodríguez},
     editor = {Joaquim Filipe and
     José Cordeiro},
     title = {Improving Moodle with {WIRIS} and {M-QIT}},
     booktitle = {{ICEIS} 2010 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
     Enterprise Information Systems, Volume 4, SAIC, Funchal, Madeira,
     Portugal, June 8 - 12, 2010},
     pages = {75–80},
     publisher = {SciTePress},
     year = {2010},
     timestamp = {Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:39:17 +0100},
     biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/iceis/BonillaCL10.bib},
     bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}