{"id":272,"date":"2012-08-25T15:26:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/?p=272"},"modified":"2018-05-25T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:28:26","slug":"ivle-platform-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2012\/08\/25\/ivle-platform-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"iVLE Platform Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iVLE platform testing was intended to compare the functions of the four iVLE platform which were the competitors of\u00a0the university new iVLE platform. The testing focused on the iVLE functionality on mobile devices including tablets\u00a0and mobile phones.All four iVLE platforms only have web interface available, none of them has mobile application\u00a0supported at the time. Due to the limited functions of the iVLE platforms on mobile devices, some of the functions\u00a0can\u2019t be tested which has been marked as N\/A in the form.<\/p>\n<p>The testing was on the following aspects:<br \/>\n1. Content management\/update: audio upload\/play and video upload\/display;<br \/>\n2. Communication: instant chats and group discussion;<br \/>\n3. Some of the routine administration work for lecturer such as user management;<\/p>\n<p>The first two aspects are quite important for iVLE to support mobile learning. It provides users with better\u00a0accessibility and great convenience. Unfortunately, on the four testing iVLE platforms, none of the iVLE system is\u00a0performing very well, although Instructure and Desire2Learn are generally better mobile device supported than the\u00a0traditional iVLE systems including Blackboard and Moodle. As to the routine administration work, mobile platform\u00a0can support some of them. But the user interface is not user friendly. The solution to this problem is to have the\u00a0mobile application developed instead of the web interface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.birmingham.ac.uk\/it\/innovation\/documents\/public\/Experiments\/iVLE-Platform-Testing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full testing report.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iVLE platform testing was intended to compare the functions of the four iVLE platform which were the competitors of\u00a0the university new iVLE platform. The testing focused on the iVLE functionality on mobile devices including tablets\u00a0and mobile phones.All four iVLE platforms only have web interface available, none of them has mobile application\u00a0supported at the time. Due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2012\/08\/25\/ivle-platform-testing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iVLE Platform Testing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-learning-technology","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}