Enhancing Teaching And Learning Through The Use Of Moodle LMS

Abstract

Moodle as a Learning Management System has proved itself to be an effective tool to enhance the educational systems and infrastructures in educational institution worldwide. This research

evaluated the implementation and use of Moodle at Mazoon College to know its effectiveness in the enhancement of the teaching and learning processes. The researchers used Descriptive Method as the methodology of the research and structured questionnaire as the tool for data gathering. The research survey conducted online and the total population of the lecturers of Mazoon College served as the respondents of the study. This study would like to answer the following questions such as: a. Frequency of using Moodle, b. Tools and activities used in the Moodle by the lecturers, c. Usefulness of Moodle in all courses in the college, d. Effectiveness of Moodle in teaching and learning process, e. Overall usefulness of Moodle, f. Use of Moodle to enhance the performance of the learners, g. Use of Moodle to enhance the engagement of the learners, h. Effectiveness of Turnitin integration to Moodle, i. Use of Moodle to ensure academic integrity and j. Use of Moodle to enhance the communication of the lecturers to the learners.

Percentage, weighted mean, and Likert scale used as the Statistical tool in this study. Here are the results of the survey: There are 89.9% lecturers in the college who always using Moodle in teaching. The major use of Moodle for the college is giving assignments to the students followed by giving resources, external links and activities and teaching materials and files. In terms of usefulness of Moodle in all courses, 18.5% Strongly Agree followed by 74.1% who Strongly Agree. The effectiveness of Moodle in teaching in learning is 70.4% Very Effective and 55.6% rated it as Very Easy to use while 40.7% rated it as Easy in terms of using Moodle. In terms of using Moodle to enhance the performance of the learners, 63% believe that it is a Very Good tool while 25.9% rated it as Good. It is almost the same in enhancing the learner’s engagement with 59.3% Very Good rate and 25.9% Good. The integration of Turnitin in the Moodle is 55.6% Very Effective while 33.3% Effective according to the respondents. The 69.2% of the respondents Always believe on the use of Moodle to maintain the Academic integrity in education which is the same as the 59.3% Always improved the communication of the lecturers to the learners using Moodle.

The recommendations of the study are the following: Continue the use Moodle as the Learning Management System in the college. Improve the use of Moodle by using it in assessments like online exams or quizzes and not only by giving assignments. Revisit and revise the syllabus to ensure the academic integrity in teaching since there are many available AI tools that the students can use to their assignments and reports.