ATutor

ATutor

Introduction

This is the era of globalization, where technological advances have played a vital role. ATutor is a (LMS) Learning Management System which is web based and open source. The system is used deliver and develops online courses (Kinuthia & Marshall, 2010). The installation process of ATutor can be completed in minutes by the administrator, and can be customized according to theme giving it a new look. It also holds the feature of its functionality being extended with the feature modules.

The educators will have the ease to assemble quickly, package and redistribute Web based instructional content, have the ease to import prepackaged content and administer their course online. Students gain from learning in an adaptive, accessible and social environment.

The purpose of the study is to research on Atutor, the learning management system. The paper will discuss its working and processes along with its importance in the world of globalization.

Discussion

Throughout the years that came after the Atutor's initial release it became internationalized (July 2003) and begin its usage of interoperability standard which starts with instrument introduction for the purpose of importing, creating and exporting SCORM and IMS for the conforment content packages. Atutor has been the initial source of LMS which is equipped for the export and import of IMS content packages.

Working

Throughout 2004 Atutor presented the theme system, which allows it to be more simple and gives Atutor a new look of re branding and permitting, and presenting the roles along with the user levels.

Through out this period it worked likewise it started with Moxiecode Inc. for adjusting the TinyMCEWYSIWYG editor, which provides evidence for the W3C Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) group

Basic plan was to develop such tool that could amend and manage with the ATAG 2.0 standards that were developing at the time, to form a authoring tool which was receptive to individuals with handicaps and made accessible content (Yu, 2010).

As a feature of that work, the ATRC Web Accessibility Checker was made accessible as a editor plugin. This helped authors analyze their contents accessibility as it was developing. TinyMYC was incorporated into Atutor as its Visual Editor, and allows facilitating with web content authoring tools being available now in the Web content management system

Fundamentally, in 2004, Atutor source code has been accessible freely in the storehouse of Subversion source code, which helps it in transferring to the distributed development.

During 2005 there was accelerated development in A tutor as Atutor module installer was introduced which allowed Atutor to extend itself with other party resources in order to create unique and newly designed features which could help in plugging into the basic system with no difficulty. A SCORM 1.2 Run Time brought out along with A tutor documentation integrated in the system as the context of sensitive help.

In 2006, community began work with Atutor source code there were many feature refinements. Ongoing with the standards of interoperability being introduced along with novel IMS Question test Interoperability standards (QTI 2.1).

In the next two years QTI 1.2 standard was introduced by Atutor creating ...