UM provides access to educational resources for those not studying at the university such as online courses, computer and library as follows:
Library and digital library
The UM library offer the need textbooks and the additional references print/online for the offered academic programs in accordance with the courses specifications that aims at providing the students with the needs knowledge/skills to attains the program/courses outcomes. The library contains thousands of paper/electronic books, journals, periodicals, etc. in the library shelves and/or via the Saudi digital library SDL.
E-learning management system
Access to the e-learning management system
Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments.
Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments.
Moodle designed to create an interactive learning environment, manage the course content and evaluate the outcomes. It is an open source program used in most of the 532 countries; with total number of courses exceed 7 million and a half course.
Moodle in AlMaarefa Colleges
- Each student has a Moodle account that will be created at the beginning of each semester.
- Students must have an academic email in order to use Moodle Students are enrolled in their courses in Moodle based on their academic schedule.
- Each course has a unified page among all sections.
- The contents of the course are added by the instructor responsible for content management and it will be displayed to all students at the same time.
- The student can only review his/her grades (the grades of the other students will not be shown).
- Assignments and quizzes can be added on the course page and it is required that each student to follow-up updates on the course page and deliver assignments on time.
- Each student has a personal page in the system that shows his courses.
- Instructors can post news on the course page, it is essential to follow the course page for the updates.
Activities
Moodle offers a large variety of activities that are designed to help your learning. When your instructors create activities they will name them. This means that they will not appear as simply Assignment or Wiki etc. on the course page, but will display with a meaningful title as set by your instructor.
Assignments
Moodle provides several ways to track and collect work from students. You can submit files or type into a text box.
Quiz
Quizzes in Moodle are used to evaluate student understanding of material. Moodle quizzes are comprised of a Quiz activity that contains one or more questions from your course’s Question bank.
Discussion forum
Instructors and students can communicate and collaborate using Forums, sometimes called “discussions.” Instructors can create topics or, depending on the Forum type, allow students to originate topics, to which course members can “post” a reply.
Feedback
For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback
Wiki
Wiki is a web page (or set of web pages) that class members can create together, working directly in the browser without needing to know HTML. A Moodle Wiki starts with one front page.
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