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Session Recording Service
France, Italy and Poland. The course instructors
are two agronomists from Greece, Mr Giorgos
and Mr Leonidas, who have the necessary train-
ing and expertise in organic farming techniques.
Additionally, a guest speaker from Cyprus will
present an epidemiology study with the use of a
Geographical Information System (GIS).
In order for the course to be ready on time, the
two instructors decided to split it in two parts and
use Diplek's presentation service to prepare each
part. Fortunately there is some work already done
by Mr Leonidas, but it is stored on a Moodle LMS
that was previously used on a similar course. Mr
Leonidas extracts that content from the Moodle
LMS and imports it to the Diplek database adding
metadata so that in future implementations of this
course, the material will be ready to be transferred
to a different learning platform if needed. The
prepared material consists of technical reports, pre-
sentations of new agricultural machinery, pictures
and precaution measures taken in other countries
to avoid crop diseases. Most of the material is in
video and presentation format.
Before the course is deployed, the two in-
structors take some time to collaborate with their
Cypriot colleague and give him access to the
course presentations in case he needs to add extra
material. The collaboration is done with Diplek's
communication services: live chat and messaging.
In order to share some files needed for the course
preparation, Diplek's Document Management
Service is used. For the last day of the course, the
three instructors have created a small project as-
signment for learners to write down their opinion
on how organic farming can be helpful for their
countries. Diplek's project management service is
used to distribute that assignment to all learners.
During the course days, learners log into the
platform and retrieve the necessary material. Most
of the time, instructors are bombarded with ques-
tions. For answering these adequately, instructors
have shared a document with frequently asked
questions (FAQ) and when needed they add extra
content to the course presentation.
The session recording service is an innovative
approach to logging learners' progress and learn-
ing achievements through a session. The use of
this service provides the instructor with video
feedback of a learner's session which consists of
all learner actions, conversations, mouse move-
ments, services used, educational material used,
etc. The output is not the typical text entry in the
database, but a video file which can be played in
any video player.
Instructors can search for a learner's recording
by selecting his/her class/group and username.
They can then select the session recording they
are interested in from a list of recordings ordered
by date and time. Each learner's recording, starts
from the moment of logging into the platform and
ends when he/she logs out or closes the applica-
tion. Instructors can view these recordings on
a daily, weekly or monthly basis. By analyzing
each learner's file, a general conclusion can be
drawn about the learner's progress. Viewing each
learner's video recording is a time consuming job,
but in some cases it is necessary for the instructor
to be able to track all learner's actions. Figure 7
shows a screenshot of the Session recorder set-
tings window.
The use of this service is directly propor-
tional to the processing power of the learner's
workstation. Due to the large amount of data
captured, a performance downgrade might occur
on the learner's workstation. This can be avoided
by using a more powerful processor. The session
recording service is by default disabled so that
instructors can enable it on certain users and on
specific time, when it is actually needed.
In addition to the session recording service,
Diplek keeps text logs of all user actions. These
logs are stored into Diplek's database and can be
retrieved by instructors and administrators. Each
entry in the log consists of the following informa-
tion: username, location of user (IP address), date
and time, service that originated it, action and any
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