Synchronizing Moodle and University Enrollment Databases, A Case Study: Islamic University of Gaza

Abstract

Moodle is a learning management system that is used in universities to support the educational process. Moodle provides many collaborative tools and interfaces that allow instructors to communicate with their students and manage their courses. Moodle maintains its own database in which courses and students accounts are created. In addition, the admission deaneries in universities maintain databases to manage the traditional educational process. In this paper, an application-oriented research has been conducted to synchronize the university admission database and the Moodle database. The synchronization process eliminates the overhead of creating the courses and students accounts in the Moodle database by transferring them automatically from the admission database. Experimental results show the validity and correctness of the proposed methodology.