Uvle

The University Virtual Learning Environment (UVLê - uvle.up.edu.ph) is the online course management system of the University of the Philippines that enables instructors to

Uvle front page circa 2008

• organize their classes around topics, themes, weekly schedules
• upload digitized materials and share them with students
• link relevant materials from other sites
• post announcements that will be sent out automatically to students
• create online forums and wikis for students to participate in.
  
  

Powered by an open-source application called Moodle, UvLe is maintained and operated by the Diliman Interactive Learning Center (DILC). The name "UVLe" is a homophonic play of "Oblê" that's a contraction of "Oblation"--a university symbol. UVLê is a platform for students to freely interact or collaborate with their instructors and fellow students. It is constructed with a pedagogy that imbibes self-discovery, self-instruction, "learning by doing" and experimentation. Learn more about Moodle's pedagogy.

Learn more:

• Getting Started

• Teacher Manual

• Frequently Asked Questions (UVLe)

• UVLe Tips

• Why Use UVLe Instead of Yahoo or Google Groups

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Utilization

As of December 7, 2010, the new UVLe has 16,291 users.

UVLe Users Registration from Sept 2008 - January 2011

activities on UVLe from 1 Oct 2008 - 1 Feb 2011. Zeros are times when UVLe is down.

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History

the orginal Uvle

Initially developed by 3 UPD students in 2000 with the guidance of the UPCC, UVLê pursues UP's tradition of excellence in academic computing. It won the "Best of Student Projects (Institute of Higher Learning)" in the Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards in Kuala Lumpur, in 2001.

From the initial hosting of 33 "virtual classes" during the first semester of 2001, the old UVLe had since hosted close to 880 classes for 16,953 users as of September 2008. It got to version 2.3.3, with advanced features indicated on its Change Log. Old UVLe's beta release was on Nov 13, 2000.<ref>[uvle-old.up.edu.ph uvle-old.up.edu.ph]

While UVLe is now on Moodle code base, it has a long history of technical innovation. (See Old UVle's changelog.) The pre-Moodle UVLe is now known as "old UVLe" and is no longer supported by the UPCC. The current UVLe was launched on October 6, 2008, on the occasion of DILC's 5th anniversary. DILC now operates and supports the new UVLe.

UVLe 2.0 was released on April 11, 2011. Versioning with the revitalized UVLe, however, is different from that of the old one with a different code base.

UVLe circa 2010

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Backup Practice

UVLe's database, files, configs, scripts are backed up every end of the month. At any given time, there are two (2) alternating monthly backups: one off-site, another one at DILC; one is dated at the most recent end of the month, the second is dated at two months before.

The UVLe server itself contains daily backup of databases.

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To Dos

• integration of useful Moodle plugins like (note: some of these plug-ins are still not available on moodle 2.0)

1. Crot 2.0 - Free tool for plagiarism detection
2. Quickmail
3. Video Consultation Seminars
4. Twitter Block
5. Facebook
6. Birthday
7. Skype
8. Feedback
9. Questionnaire
10. Google Apps
11. Certificate
12. Dimdim: a while back this was available as as alpha on UVLe: Integration of videoconference and Net meeting features from Dimdim. Here's how to conduct a live web meeting via UVLe
13. OU blog

• UVLê-CRS integration. Features: single-click UVLe course creation

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Staff

Peter Sy (Project Management)

Wennie Saludes (Support Manager)

Dawn Benigno (Developer)

Jastinne Cesar Macalalad (Developer)

Past Staff

Mark Benedict Uy (Developer)

Lawrence Libo-on (Developer)

Myra Jill Siason (Technology and Quality Control Consultant)

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See Also

• Why use UVLe
• Tips on Teaching with UVLe

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