Course Management System (CMS)

Course Management System (CMS)

Course Management System (CMS) refers to a tool that gives access to corporations, instructors, and Universities to support and develop online education. The tool is to help Course Management and Operations System (CMOS) at the School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS). The tool is divided into two sectors. first, Course activities is an evolving and active project with instructor-student features such as assignments, chats, choices, forums, glossary, journals, lesson, test questions, survey, Wikis, workshop and support resources such as videos to cater for special needs. Second, Course management where activity setting is done by the instructor to be used in monitoring and tracking activities of registered students. It’s divided into two: Course setting and management where CMOS heads create management flexibility to instructors, research assistants, and teaching assistants engaged in engineering courses. The instructors have powers to customize their own scales for awarding forums, journals, and assignments. The civil engineering course is packed as a single zip file and backed up at the closure of the semester for reconfiguration in the future. Student enrollment is a project that minimizes administration involvement. After registration in CMOS and SECS, the students are able to access the resources at their residences until the end of the period. Instructors are supposed to respond to students in order to build and maintain the community feeling in the course. The tool enables students with special needs to participate on their own terms as when learning they can engage with materials at a comfortable pace, it reduces the need to travel reducing the barrier for those with mobility problems, instructors can familiarize courses to handle specific needs, and finally, the instructor use established accessibility guidelines involving the use of audio and visual format, images, etc.