Moodle Quality Standard Evaluation Module

Abstract

The use of Virtual Teaching-Learning Environments is common in Cuban universities and Pinar del Río University Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca (UPR) in the professionals formation process got Moodle as support platform, standardizing courses and virtual classrooms format. The materials for that courses most be into specific methodological requirements, also can being evaluated their impact in the teacher-learning process depending of the interaction with them. The study of how courses resources of different topics can by more attractive and easy to learn, allow elevating the levels of reception of the content to domain. It an objective of this investigation to describe a Moodle plugin that allow to evaluate quality standards of text and video resources of the courses at the Pinar del Río University. In the research of the technological development type, were applied theoretical research methods such as historical-logical, analysis-synthesis and modeling; among the empirical ones, documentary analysis and unit tests, as well as statistics. As a result a plugin named Quality_resources for Moodle platform was implemented This plugin show which texts documents and videos are not aligning with the quality standards defined for the university. With this tool is possible to define the right structure of resources published on the platform for the information provided to be assimilated and, with its support, make decisions about the quality of the courses based on the identification of fulfillment of standards defined.