Research analysis of moodle reports to gauge the level of interactivity in elearning courses at Assumption University, Thailand

Moodle is a license free software platform. All those involved in the business of eLearning also call it as a Learning Management System (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)). Moodle is designed to help educators create online courseware with opportunities for rich interaction. Interactivity is becoming a key facet of eLearning. Moodle logs all activities including views and posts for all learning objects hosted in the system and provides ldquoReportsrdquo and statistics to help the content experts to improve the quality of eLearning courseware. This paper describes the use of automated, scalable real-time ldquoReportsrdquo containing data of all activity (views and posts) for four major ICT courses offered as a part of the Master Degree eLearning program at Assumption University of Thailand. The data examined in this study includes a purposive sample of ldquoviewsrdquo and ldquopostsrdquo captured in the Moodle ldquoReports.rdquo This innovative tool is embedded into the Moodle and can be used by the educators to evaluate studentspsila activities and identify online behaviors and interaction pattern in the networked learning environment. Information provided by the ldquoReportsrdquo can be used for evaluating the quality of courseware and student interaction with the system.