Using moodle as an integrated final year project management system

Abstract

Final year project (FYP) has long been known as one of the courses that provide engineering degree students the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge to any engineering problems that require analytical and/or design and/or experimental effort. The evaluation for FYP is based on multitude of ways which are progress reports, oral presentation on research proposal, written proposal, manuscript, poster presentation and dissertation. With this amount of submissions and evaluations that needs to be done, a more efficient approach that requires paperless and time-saving system is considered. This paper presents an online management and assessments aspects of students' final year project work using Moodle for chemical engineering undergraduate programme. Moodle is used as a one-stop center to coordinate, manage students' submissions and evaluation marks, and conduct online evaluation. Additionally, the monitoring of students' submissions progress can also be made with the available options in Moodle. A preliminary survey was conducted after it was used for one semester. It can be concluded that by using a Moodle based-systematic approach, the lecturers are positively inclined to use Moodle as the management tool for FYP.