Atenea exams, an IMS LTI application to solve scalability problems: A study case
In 2004, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya decided to change one of its critical and strategic information services: the online teaching support platform. An Open Source software, Moodle, was adopted and the previous proprietary software was abandoned. In 2020, the home confinement of the pop...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/342644 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/342644 https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11010080 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Universities and colleges -- Examinations Computer networks -- Scalability Interoperability LMS Moodle Scalability IMS LTI Confinament Universitats -- Exàmens Ordinadors, Xarxes d' -- Escalabilitat Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::TIC's aplicades a l'educació Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Enginyeria del software |
| Sumario: | In 2004, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya decided to change one of its critical and strategic information services: the online teaching support platform. An Open Source software, Moodle, was adopted and the previous proprietary software was abandoned. In 2020, the home confinement of the population due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has been a stress test for the entire university community, and very specifically by those responsible for providing the support of the online teaching support platform. The increase in activity and the prospect of the generalization of online assessment raised the concerns of possible scalability issues with the quiz functionality during the examination period. The solution applied involved using Moodle’s IMS LTI interoperability features to deploy a high-performance version of the Moodle Quizz Module As A Service (SaaS), to plug-and-play within the university’s LMS without drawing on its internal resources. This solution combined with a systems strategy, private cloud operations, internal communication and teacher training, solved this problem and successfully complete the assessment of the university course in a situation of confinement. |
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