A Study On The Effects Of Learning Material Handling Procedures Towards Information Integrity In Moodle Learning Management System (LMS)

Abstract

Moodle is an open-source Learning Management System (LMS) that is used widely around the world. Moodle is the most popular and most used learning management system because of its flexibility and open source. There are more than 68 millions Moodle users and more than 55, 000 Moodle systems are used with different purposes around the world. The vast numbers of Moodle user is due to the user friendliness of the system that caters the needs of learning and training for all people from any institutes or organizations. This study is conducted to prevent information security threats especially information integrity threats that happen in Olympia College Moodle. To achieve the goal of this study, there are two objectives that have been indentified, which is to scrutinize learning materials handling procedures that are currently implemented by Olympia College and the effects of those procedures towards information integrity in the Moodle. At the same time, this study also proposes some mitigation measures which can be implemented to ensure the information integrity threats in Olympia College Moodle can be detered. The study is conducted through grouped interviews, analysis of related documents, observations and online surveys to lecturers and students of Olympia College to gain information on the problems that are faced by them when using or accessing Moodle. The analysis of this study shows that human factors and the shortcomings of the learning materials handling procedures implemented by Olympia College trigger the information security threats on the learning materials that can be found on Moodle.