Uvle

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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.

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"UVLe" - Episode 1 - review it!



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.

UVLe is now version 2.5, based on Moodle 2.5. This means in part that whatever improvements in Moodle can be incorporated into UVLe. A number of features like the Dock and certain plugins (see below) are unique to UVLe.

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Modules, Plugins, and Blocks

In addition to standard Moodle 2.x features, UVLe 2.x now has the following modules, plugins, blocks:


Navigation

  • 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.

UVLebook Theme v2 Dock


UVLebook Theme v1 Dock


  • Collapsed Topics - enables one to toggle between topic and week views of a course, especially when one feels there's "too many" topics to see in one glance.
  • Tab Topics Course Format enables the teacher to display course topics or sections in tabs.



Resource Uploading and Sharing

UVLe FIle Picker
UVLe FIle Picker


  • 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".

  • Dropbox Repository - enables users to pull files directly from their Dropbox accounts and share documents with fellow UVLe users. Dropbox offers cloud storage and file synchronization across computers. If you still don't have any Dropbox account, click here to get one.

  • UPDox Repository - enables a UPDox user to share his files via UVLe.



Uploading files on UVLe from your repository works best for relatively smaller files. For large files, there are more efficient way of distributing them. See, for instance, this demo UVLe site.






UVLe Activities

See UVLe Activities


UVLe Quiz and Assignment

See UVLe Quiz and Assignment


Evaluation Tools

  • Crot Tool for Plagiarism Detection - helps teachers detect plagiarized materials that students may submit on UVLe. In your course page, use this feature under "Add an activity" | "Advanced Uploading of Files"


See Also: "How to prevent plagiarism" for further details on the detection tool and "Busting Plagiarism" for the substantive issues in plagiarism.

Communication

  • Quickmail - enables a teacher to quickly email some or all students in the course through a checkbox list. To be able to use Quickmail, the teacher or course manager needs to add the Quickmail block to the course page.



Rewards

  • Certificate - enables the teacher to dynamically generate certificates to students upon completion of certain course requirements.
  • Badges - are "little rewards" for students' accomplishments in a course. They are compatible with Mozilla Open Badges. More info.



Mind Mapping Tools

See Gallery of Examples.

To create and save simple "mind maps" on UVLe/OVLe itself, use Mindmap (see below).

  • Mindmap[2] - enables the teacher or course manager to provide a "mind mapping" activity area in a course where simple mind maps can be created and saved. This feature is made available via Add an activity under a course topic (after you click on Turn editing on).



These tools require Java-enabled browsers.

Science and Math Tools

  • Tex Notation Filter - enables the addition of mathematical expressions in UVLe pages. See also Tutorials.




Organizational Tools

"Chairman" (formerly Committee Meeting) is available via "Add an activity" after "Turn editing on" is enabled"
  • Chairman (formerly Committee Manager) - an administration module that enables one to manage committees, upload public and private files, create events (meetings), plan meetings, manage agenda, minutes, business arising from previous meetings. Access is via "Add an activity" in your UVLe page.



  • UVLe User Admin Module - a module to manage users who cannot be authenticated by UP Diliman LDAP Server or those who cannot have UP Webmail Accounts



  • Reservation - enables an UVLe user (with at least a teacher role) to use UVLe as a reservation system for a lab or any facility, for exams or consultation schedules. To activate in a page, turn editing on and 'Add an activity' | 'Reservation.' The number of slots, the opening and closing dates can be specified. Students can cancel their reservation. Reservation can also be limited by Department, Major, Course and additional categories can be requested from Team UVLe.
    This reservation system is limited by slot numbers rather than by time blocks. A "time slot" based reservation system may become available in future updates.
Reservation Settings available via Add an Activity > Add new reservation
Illustrative uses:
  1. a teacher wants to hold consultation meetings with her 30 students during her consultation period in September. Instead of doing a back-and-forth of emails trying to schedule such meetings, she sets up a 'Reservation' activity for her students so that they themselves can just sign up via UVLe, given the limited slots per period.
  2. a lab manager deals with the volume of requests for the use of a highly in-demand equipment. Instead of students coming to the lab to sign up, the students can just go to UVLe to file the request at their convenience.
  3. a college sets up a reservation system on UVLe for the use of its audio-visual room.



Tutorials





More Useful Tools on UVLe




Utilization

As of 26 March 2013

  • Number of courses: 2366
  • Number of users: 27,726
  • Number of role assignments: 34,899
  • Number of posts: 32,202
  • Number of questions: 25,734
  • Number of resources: 16,564
  • Average number of participants: 14.23
  • Average number of course modules: 11.43

See More Utilization of UVLe




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.[3] Old UVLe's beta release was on Nov 13, 2000.[4] There was an attempt to recode UVLe (see UVLe 3.0 java code on Subversion) but it was never implemented.

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 heretofore referred to 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. Now it closely follows Moodle versioning. UVLe 2.5 was released in June 2013.


Uvle front page circa 2008


UVLe circa 2010
UVLe 2.0 - released 11 Feb 2011



UVLe 2.5 - released June 2013





Backup Practice

Snapshots of the UVLe's database and user files are backed up daily in remote servers. UVLe's configs and scripts are also backed up regularly.



To Dos

  • integration of more useful Moodle plugins and extensions like
  1. iskwiki login via UVLe
  2. Mapping Activity or Block
  3. Easypost
  4. eMail
  5. MOSS
  6. Administrative Email
  7. Ajax Marking
  8. Analytics and Recommendations
  9. Group selection
  10. Progress Bar
  11. Video Consultation Seminars
  12. Twitter Block
  13. Facebook
  14. Birthday
  15. Skype
  16. Feedback
  17. Google Apps
  18. Certificate
  19. BigBlueButton
  20. OU blog
  21. UVLe User Admin Module
  22. Moodle-Mediawiki integration



  • 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)

Jastinne Cesar Macalalad (Developer)

Dawn Benigno (Developer)

Cristina Dalupan (Developer)

Design Consultants

UPCC


Past Staff

Mark Benedict Uy (Developer)

Lawrence Libo-on (Developer)

Myra Jill Siason (Technology and Quality Control Consultant)


See Also



Notes

  1. ↑ See FreeMind filter on Moodle. Also initial discussion on mind mapping on Moodle.
  2. ↑ See Mindmap plugin on Moodle
  3. ↑ See old UVLe's Change Log
  4. ↑ uvle-old.up.edu.ph

Readings



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