The Learning Management System (LMS) of DepEd is a software application that manages, documents, tracks, reports, automates, and delivers training courses, training, and learning and development programs.
Department of Education was doing its utmost capable innovation to create a place for online learning. Since the COVID-19 Pandemic changed the way we learned and the delivery of educational services, the Department deployed various Learning Management Systems or also known as LMS.
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An LMS is a software that will allow teachers to create virtual classrooms where they can assign activities for students to complete, monitor whether activities have been completed, grade materials presented, and conduct online quizzes to assess understanding when face-to-face classes are not available. are allowed. The LMS will work hand-in-hand with the DepEd Commons to benefit the more than 8 million learners who already have access to the platform. The DepEd Commons will contain open educational resources (OER), electronic self-learning modules (e-SLM), video and audio episodes of lectures, and other digital content to be used by teachers to assign and plan lessons to be taken by students. in the LMS.
- The main DepEd Learning Management System or LMS that teachers and students can use to conduct online classes is available at https://lms.deped.gov.ph
- Teacher’s LMS is for online training of teaching and non-teaching staff, available at https://training.deped.gov.ph
- The Bureau of Educational Assessment’s LMS for National Tests is accessible at https://assessment.deped.gov.ph
The Bureau of Education Assessment (BEA) is an office under the Curriculum and Instruction strand that develops a harmonized and standardized assessment mechanism for student learning, teacher effectiveness, leadership and management, system efficiency and effectiveness; and provides policy recommendations based on assessment results and research to improve learning delivery, teacher quality, and education management.
Moodle is free and can be used by the Department without having to go through a procurement process, allowing it to be deployed before the school opens. The primary costs will include servers already covered by an enterprise licensing agreement with Microsoft for Azure Cloud. Consulting services are also needed to set up a server farm that can serve the more than 8 million users already registered with DepEd Commons. They are currently funded through a technical assistance grant from the Asian Development Bank as well as from Microsoft Philippines.
Moodle will allow DepEd to zero rate the LMS so that it is free for users accessing through mobile phones. Currently, this is not possible for free LMS platforms as it entails a server dedicated to DepEd (not possible for free LMS such as Google Classroom, Edmodo, Schoology, but possible for Moodle because the open source installers, and we are allowed to install them on our server). Applications to provide this special service to the Department have not made any progress with respect to free LMS platforms.