Effective online learning management system to improve and enhance the online learning and student engagement experience.: This document contains how the proposed solution, an extension, can help enhance distance learning.

Abstract

With the spread of Covid-19, there has been a shift towards distance learning and teachers find it difficult to keep track of students who are attentive during class. Unlike before, where the traditional classroom environment helped teachers keep track of the students who are not fully concentrating during the lessons. This shift to online learning has made teachers find it much more difficult to keep track of students who are idling during their lecture period. For this the following solution is proposed to introduce an extension to help teachers integrate with existing video conferencing platforms. This solution will help teachers to know whether the student has been attentive during class, by keeping track of their peripheral device movements, such as mouse movements or keystrokes. Previous studies have been conducted to keep track of student's eye movement and browser history, but no solution has been developed to easily ‘plug and play’ into an existing platform for teachers to get real time progress of a student's interaction to the lecture. The main objective of this research will be to help enhance the learning experience of a student by keeping the teacher aware of the student's progress just like in a traditional classroom environment.