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
- 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.
UVLe is now version 2.0, based on Moodle 2.0.
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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.
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Modules and Plugins
In addition to standard Moodle 2.0 features, UVLe 2.0 now has the following modules and plugins:
- the dock - provides shortcuts to the main UVLe page, to the courses the user is currently enrolled in, to the user's files, to blogs, to messages, to the form for requesting courses (visible only to users with current teacher role), to the user's contacts.
- GoogleDocs Reposity - enables one to directly share one's GoogleDocs files via UVLe. This feature will be visible after one clicks on "Turn editing on" | "Add a resource" | "File" or "Folder".
- Crot Tool for Plagiarism Detection - helps teachers detect plagiarized materials that students submit on UVLe. In your course page, use this feature under "Add an activity" | "Upload a single file"
Utilization
As of December 7, 2010, the new UVLe has 16,291 users.
History
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.[1] Old UVLe's beta release was on Nov 13, 2000.[2]
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. It closely follows Moodle versioning.
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.
To Dos
- integration of useful Moodle plugins like (note: some of these plug-ins are still not available on moodle 2.0)
- Quickmail
- Video Consultation Seminars
- Twitter Block
- Birthday
- Skype
- Feedback
- Google Apps
- Certificate
- 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
- OU blog
- UVLê-CRS integration. Features: single-click UVLe course creation, integrated submission of grades
- improve ease of use and "sociability" a la Mixable, GradeGuru, Finals Club, OpenStudy
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)
See Also