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CALIFYN- LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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Abstract Califyn is a learning management system that mainlyfocusesonautomatedactivitypointcalculationandto identify the students that require improvement in their academics with necessary remedies. So far, the calculation of activitypointsisperformedmanuallybythefacultiesbasedon the certificates submitted by the students at each semester. Califyn is developed with the idea of automating the calculation process and thereby making it easier for faculties and students. It is relevant as it generates automated reports onallaspectsofdata drivendecision making.Thetraditional way of entering activity points is by comparing the given detailswiththeguidelines givenbytheuniversityandthenitis entered on an excel sheet. Another similar learning management system is a fully hosted cost effective and innovative learning management system that provides centralized and automated administration but misses on features that we offer. An innovative idea in the project is to automate the activity points of the students and make the student profile updated with their current points and give theman alert iftheyare farbehindtotheir destination. Along with that, Califyn provides better features for attendance monitoring, using a prediction model to make predictions on marks for upcoming internals using machine learning. Students and Staff under APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University will be benefited through this application. This systemwillalsohelpfaculties tomonitorthestudentactivities and to generate reports on them since these are necessary criteria for meeting students' eligibility to acquire B. Tech degree.
tools, the learning management system virtually mimics whatanindoorclassroomcando.Studentscanlearnfrom anywhere and at any time with the help of a learning managementsystem(LMS).SoLMSisbeingdevelopedday by day to enhance the user experience and its demand is increasingdaily.
1.1 General Background
WearefocusingonbindingthetechnologyofAIintotheLMS system through which a much better and efficient system couldbegenerated.Featuressuchasattendancemonitoring, online examination, activity point calculator and performancepredictionmodelarethehighlightsincluded. As AI has taken over many fields including the education sector, we believe that it could be very beneficial in this system. Whenanindividualstudentisabletounderstand his current situation of education, he/she will be able to makeuptheirmindandsetapropergoalandwillhavethat mentalitytoreachthedestination.Alongwiththatactivity pointswhicharemandatoryforthecompletionofcourseis also integrated in the system to make it easier for the facultiesandstudentsregardingtheiractivitypointstatus.
1.2 Relevance
Key
Words: Learning management system, Activity point calculation, Attendance monitoring, Automated administration, Machine learning
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Learning management system, or LMS, is a software applicationusedintheacademicprocess.Thismethodhas revolutionized the education business and continues to evolveastechnologyadvances.Oneofthetechnologiesthat drivesdemandfortheLMSisadvancementinthefieldofAI. Becausemanystudentsandresearchscholarsrelyononline contentastheirclassroomasaresultoftheCovidepidemic, theuseofLMSbyschoolsandcollegeshassurged.Without the costs of printing physical copies, the limitation on the numberofstudentseachclass,andtheabsenceoftracking
Califynallowsteachersandinstructorstomonitorstudent progress and assess performance using machine learning. From keeping track of records, grades, everything is includedinthesystem.Comingtoanindustrialperspective, itcanbeusedtopredictsalesanddeterminetheworthofa product. The importance and demand of learning managementsystemsareelevatingdaybydaymakingthe academicactivityeasiertointeract.
1.3 Socio-Economic Importance
Every organization is still attempting to find out what, if anything,todowithsociallearning,especiallywiththenew mainstreamsocialmediacapabilities.Thereisnoshortageof ideas or hype about how to use social learning to its full potential.Learningmanagementsystemshaveprogressedto become excellent social learning platforms. Our LMS has features that make online learning and activity point calculation easier, making learning more enjoyable and social.
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1.4 Applications
Our System is flexible to the modifications made by universitiesregardingguidelines,so oursystemcanbe implemented to any college irrespective of any university.
The Student Performance Prediction using machine learningcanalsobeusedtopredicttheperformanceof anemployeeinanorganization.
Thevariousbenefitsofoursystemcanbeimplemented inproduct basedindustriesthatincludesdata organization,salepredictionetc.
1.5 Advantages
● StudentDatacanbeorganizedonasinglespace
● Based on the documents uploaded, Activity Point Calculationisautomated
● Flexible to make Modifications made by the university regardingactivitypoints
● DataManipulationcanbeavoided
● EvaluatesstudentperformanceusingML CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE SURVEY AND EXISTING SYSTEMS
Inthischapter,theliteraturereviewandexistingsystems relatedtoourprojectwillbecovered
2.1 LITERATURE SURVEY
Facebookgroupasalearningmanagementsystem[1] Qiyun Wang,HuayLitWoo,ChoonLangQuek,YuqinYang,MeiLiu. AFacebookgroupwasusedasanLMSintwocoursesata teacher education institute in Singapore for posting announcements, exchanging materials, organizing weekly tutorials, and conducting online conversations. Students were pleased with Facebook's features. The LMS could be readilyintegratedintoFacebookgroup.Otherfileformats couldnotbedirectlyuploaded.Studentsalsodidnotfeelsafe orcomfortablesincetheirprivacymightbecompromised. Self disclosure by teachers on Facebook can improve learning atmosphere, credibility, and student teacher relationships.
ChoosingtheRightLearningManagementSystem(LMS)for the Higher Education Institution Context: A Systematic Review[2].N.N.M.Kasim,F.Khalid.Discussesavarietyof prospectiveLearningManagementSystems(LMS)thatcan beusedinthecontextofHigherEducationInstitutionsfor teachingandlearningactivities.Eachplatformisexceptional
initsownway.Institutionsorlecturersthatwanttousean online learning management platform have the right to selecttheplatformbasedonthespecificationsanddemands oftheusers.Moodle,ATutor,Blackboard,andSuccessFactors areafewexamples.Thecomparisonisbasedonareviewof the literature on the characteristics of the selected LMS providers. Flexibility, ease of use, accessibility, and user friendliness are among the characteristics taken in to consideration.
OLMS:Onlinelearning management systemfor e learning [3]. Vinay Kumar Ippakayala, Hosam El Ocla. A learning management system that allows for the centralization of course content control. This application has a secure technique for recording lectures, which may be accessed throughwebcamormobilerecording.Useradministration, subject management, and a notice board are the main modules. Users such as students, teachers, and administrators can manage their schedules, lectures, assignments, employment, events, chats, and research. In addition, we connect a learning management system to a socialactivitiesplatform,andstudentassessmentanalysisis developed.
Design and Development E Learning System by Learning Management System (LMS) in Vocational Education [4]. RabimanRabiman,MuhammadNurtanto,NurKholifah.To establish an LMS based E Learning system that has been tested on Microteaching in the Mechanical Engineering Education class, using the Hannafin and Peck approach model with particular stages (needs analysis, design, developmentandimplementation).ThefindingsofanLMS based E Learning development study are "extremely practical"forapplication.TheevaluationisbasedontheLMS usability, LMS functions, visual communication, learning design,materialcontents,andlanguageandcommunication skills.
DesignsofwebbasedLMS(LearningManagementSystem) inSNAM1KamparKiriHilar[5].MuhardiMuhardi,Sakroni Indra Gunawan, Yuda Irawan, Yuda Irawan. A web based Learning Management System was built by using the PHP programming language and MySQL using the Waterfall Model Method. Level of interaction between teachers and studentsincreases.
Learning Management System (LMS) Based on Moodle to ImproveStudentsLearningActivity[6].NHSSimanullang,J Rajagukguk. This research is to look at student learning activities that are learned in online using by LMS based Moodle applications. Moodle based LMS can increase student learning activities though in even online. Student learning activity can be carried out well without any constraintsonthelimitationsofface to facetimeinclass.
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2.2 EXISTING SYSTEMS
Manual entry in Microsoft Excel
As of now Colleges, under the Kerala Technological UniversityadoptMicrosoftexcelsheetsenablingstudentsto uploadtheiractivitypointsbasedontheeventstheyhave attended.Thefacultiesneedtocalculatethepointsbasedon theseeventsforeverystudentanditistimeconsuming.
AMS Developed by Saintgits College
It is an AMS developed by Er Tibin Thomas, a faculty of Saintgits College of Engineering that mainly focuses on attendancemonitoring,Internalmarkassessment(entering ofseriesmarkandassignmentmark)reportgenerationcan bemadeandmakes iteasierforthefacultiestoassessthe studentperformance.
Edmodo
Edmodo is an open source e learning platform that offers numerous features such as facilitating learning goals, creating polls for students, online discussion forums and throughthenetworkitconnectsstudents,teachers,parents andadministratorsonasingleplatform.
Linways
Linwaysisacompletemanagementsoftwareformanaging entireacademicactivities.Itisincorporatedwithnumerous features such as course material distribution, online admission management, attendance marking and report generation,timetablemanagement,onlineexaminationand mark analysis and many more. This module can be considered as a complete system which is still being updated.
CHAPTER 3
OBJECTIVES AND PROPOSED INNOVATION
Inthischapter,objectivesandproposedinnovationofour projectwillbediscussed.
3.1 OBJECTIVES
● DevelopingaLMSwhichmakestheacademicprocess simpler.
● Givingalertstothestudentsregardingtheiracademic activities.
● To reduce the overhead of activity point calculation throughautomation
● Gettinganoverviewofthestudent’sperformancebased ontheirpastperformance.
3.2 PROPOSED INNOVATION
OurSystemisa LMS(LearningManagementSystem).The modules which we are planning to develop consist of the following:
1. ActivityPointCalculator
2. AttendanceMonitoring
3. StudentPerformancePredictionusingML
4. OnlineTestPortal
1. Activity Point Calculator
AnactivitypointCalculatorisamodulethatcalculatesthe activity point of a student who comes under a particular university.Currently,weareusinganExcelSheettoenter thedetailsofactivitiesthatthestudentshaveparticipatedin andithasbeenfoundthatitismoredifficulttofilltheexcel sheet since everyone has the permission to edit the sheet and it is also a unique feature of the system. Also, the faculties have to look upon every student’s entry and calculate the activity points along with that they need to verifythatitisnotaduplicateentry.Therefore,bringingan automated system to perform the calculations would be a greatbenefitforboththestudentsandfaculties.
2. Attendance Monitoring
The Second module provides the feature of attendance monitoring to assess the participation of students in the classes.Hereanoverallattendanceviewisvisibletofaculties to analyze the attendance of a particular class during that year.Herethefacultieswillbeabletomarktheattendance onaday to daybasis.Basedontheattendanceduringthat dayaleveliscalculatedfrom0to5andagraphiscreated.
3. Online Test Portal
Inthefourthmodule,provisionforOnlineassessmentcanbe performedwithamoresecuremethodtoavoidmalpractices, etc. The importance of online tests is seen during the pandemictimewhentherewasnooptionforanexamination to be conducted in offline mode. So, this module plays an important role at all times. Making the test portal more secureisanotherimportanttask.Makingthestudentsnot visit another tab is an example of how to ensure that cheatingisnotdone.
4. Student Performance Prediction
Then comes the last module. Using machine learning the student'sperformanceismonitoredbasedonhisacademic performance and thereby enabling the faculty to get an overviewofthestudent.Thelinearregressiontechniqueis being used so that individual student performance can be
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monitored. Mostly we see that a class contains almost 60 students,andafacultymightnotbeabletomonitorevery student. So, using this system it alerts the faculty to find whichstudentsneedtobefocusedmore.
CHAPTER 4
HYPOTHESIS, DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY
Inthischapterthehypothesis,designandmethodology abouttheprojectwillbecovered.
a. HYPOTHESIS
We found that our system can minimize the overheads of faculties,asoursystemmanagesthedatabyitselfandalso thefacultycanpredicttheperformanceofaclassheisgoing toapproach,whichwillbehelpfulinselectingappropriate approaches. Students using LMS can study better and can implementnewlearningtechniques.AlongwithusingLMS obtainstimemanagementandbecomesconsistentwiththeir academics.
b. DESIGN
Followingdiagramshowsthedesignofourproposed system:
● Faculty
Once students upload their documents, the faculty can verify the documents and can apply modifications if any. They can also manage Online Test Portal System and conductteststoassesstheknowledgeandskillsofStudents andtheycananalyzetheperformanceofastudentbasedon their previous performance using our Student Prediction MLSystem
● Admin
Nextuseristheadmin,whocanmanageallthefacultiesand students in our system and also modify the point tables accordingtotheregulationsmadebytheUniversity.
4.3 METHODOLOGY
Oursystemprovidesasetofactionslikelogin,registerand forgot password for the users. Once the user is logged in, theywillbedirectedtotheirdashboardpage.Iftheuserisa student, they will be provided with many features as mentioned below and if the user is a faculty, they will be providedwithanothersetoffeaturesincludingonlinetest portal,attendancemonitoringsystem,studentperformance predictionsystembasedontheirpreviousacademicssuchas their mark sheet, class average which will be the input datasetfortraining.Theycanalsoverifythedocumentsof corresponding students. If the user is admin, they will be given the control to manage all members and our web application.
4.2Designoftheproposedsystem
Inoursystemtherearethreetypesofusers,
● Students
Students need to register their account in our web application. After registration, they need to add their mentor using the mentor code and after that they can uploadtheirdocumentsinordertoautomatetheiractivity points.Alongwiththat,StudentscantakeupAssessment TestscreatedbyFacultyandcanknowtheiractivitypoints statusanytime.
Fig4.3(a)StudentDashboard
In the Students Portal Fig 4.3(a), at first, they need to register their account in our web application. After successfullogin,theywillbedirectedtothedashboardpage. In dashboard page, student have the provision to access classroom,managetheircertificatesandselecttheirmentor. Along with that they will be notified regarding the placements,activitypointsetc.Atfirst,theyneedtoselect theirmentor,forthattheyhavetoaccesstheirprofilepage andpastethementorcode,whichisthesharedbythefaculty totheircorrespondingstudents.
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Fig4.3(b)StudentAddCertificate
InthenewcertificatepageasshowninFig4.3(b),theycan upload the documents by filling out the necessary fields whichisprovidedbytheUniversity.Aftersuccessfulsubmit, they can see the update of their submitted document in dashboard.Whenthecertificateisapprovedbythefaculty,it willbelistedincertificatetabandtheirtotalactivitypoint willbeupdated.TherejectedCertificatewillbeupdatedin therejectedCertificatetabalongwiththereasontoreject thecertificate.
In classroom page, students will be mapped to different subjects created by the faculty. In that they can see their attendanceprogressforeachsubject.Also,thestudenthas theprovisiontoattendthequizcreatedbythefaculty.
Fig4.3(d)AttendanceMonitoringSystem
InattendanceMonitoringsystemasshowninFig4.3(d),the faculty can create classroom and the students will be automaticallymappedbasedonbatchandyearofpass.After successful creation of subject page, they can mark the attendanceofstudentsalongwiththedate.Inthatfaculties arealsoprovidedwithagraphicalrepresentationbasedon certainlevels,sothatfacultycanknowmoreabouttheclass.
Fig4.3(c)FacultyDashboardPage
In Faculty portal Fig 4.3(c), they have the provision to managetheclassroomandreviewcertificatesuploadbythe students.Thedocumentuploadbystudentswillbelistoutin pending certificate tab under dashboard page. They can reviewthedocuments.oursystemautomaticallycalculates the points and they can modify if there is any change accordingtotheUniversityguidelines. Afterapproval,itwill belistedinthecertificatetabandtheycandownloaditlater as an excel sheet for any documentation purpose etc. In classroom page, they are provided with features of attendance Monitoring system, Online Quiz Portal and Studentperformancepredictionusingmachinelearning.
Fig4.3(e)OnlineQuizPortal
InOnlineQuizPortalasinFig4.3(e),theycanconductquiz by filling out the necessary fields and it will be repeated basedonthenumberofquestionsenteredbythefaculty.
Instudentperformance predictionsystem,thefacultycan analyzetheperformanceofstudentbasedontheirprevious performance using a machine learning model. In this, facultiesareprovidedwithoptiontoenterthestudentmark andoursystemautomaticallycalculatestheCGPAbasedon this, through this they can know more about the students andcanhelpthemtoimprove.
Fig4.3(f)AdminDashboard
ComingtotheAdminportalinFig4.3(f),havetheprovision to manage faculties, students and courses. They are also providedwithfeaturestomodifythepointtableortoadd new category according to changes prescribed by the
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University.Theadmincanmanagefacultiesthroughvarious options.
Fig4.3(g)FacultyRegistration
First, they can register faculties as single or bulk upload throughanexcelsheetasdescribedinFig4.3(g).Aftertheir successful registration, the faculties will be listed out in faculty tab under dashboard and they can remove the facultiesiftheywant. Thesamefeatureisapplicableincase ofcourseregistration,inwhichtheycancreateanddropthe course. Admin also have the provision to deactivate the students,ifnolongerneeded.
individualized learning solutions, detailing an enhanced learnerjourney.Cateringtoatailoredlearningenvironment digitallywasdifficultpriortoAILMS.Therecommendation engine of an AI powered LMS provides a user focused UI, with auto filtering of materials given to individualized learnersbasedonintelligenceobtainedfromuserbehaviors, skillsets,andinformationcomponents.WithitsAI algorithm that handles content scheduling and delivery procedures, EnhancedAutomationAILMScanautomateeventhemost difficult human intervened operations. Such an LMS recognizes skill gaps and delivers targeted competence mappingandrecommendations,relievingadministratorsof themanualburden.
Gamified Learning
EnhancedAutomationAILMScanautomateeventhemost demanding human intervened activities with its AI algorithm that manages content scheduling and delivery procedures. An LMS of this type recognizes skill gaps and provides targeted competency mapping and recommendations,alleviatingadministratorsofthemanual burden.
Collaborativeness
Fig4.3(h)Add/ModifyActivityPoint
In add activity page, they have provided with option to createmodifyandcandeletethecategoryasshowninFig 4.3(h). In case any change prescribed by university regardingactivitypointtocertaincategory,theycanmodify thepointtable.
Thesoftwaredesignphaseshowsasystematicdevelopment oftheapplication.Inordertodevelopourwebapplication, weusedReact.jsasourfrontend,whichisanopen source framework and Laravel as our backend. We are using Jupyter notebook and Spyder for our machine learning model.
CHAPTER 5
FUTURE SCOPE
Thefuturescopeofourprojectincludes: AI Powered LMS
An AI powered LMS offers personalized learning and enhancedautomationoptions.AILMSfeaturesavarietyof
Collaboration is an essential component of a Learning Management System. Students will be able to collaborate using web conferencing technologies in futuristic LMSs throughseminars,casualcollaboration,groupmeetings,sub chats,orgroupchats.On demandandpre plannedsessions, effective course delivery tools, multi point video, digital whiteboard tools, application and desktop sharing, and application and desktop sharing all offer an exceptional learningexperience.
CHAPTER 6
CONCLUSION
Thepurposeofthesystemwastobringupasystemthat couldimprovetheongoingeducationsystembyidentifying themissingandyetneededfeaturesthatenhanceslearning. Current situations of the education system need to be improved in a way as the technology is being improved everysecond.Asystemdesignedindividuallyforastudentis notpossible,butwiththetechnologyofAI,personalanalysis can be done thereby identifying the ups and downs of a student.Theresearchwasdonetounderstandthefeatures that could improve the current LMS. Professional publicationswereidentifiedandusedtoimprovethesystem withalltheexistingandnewfeatures.Thedevelopmentand use of computers and computer related technologies harbingeredresearchandinnovationsthathaveledtothe developmentanduseofAIinLMS.AIhasbeenextensively adopted and used in the education sector, particularly, in educationalinstitutions,whichwerethefocusofthisstudy.
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The analysis focused on evaluating the impact of AI on learningaspectsofeducation,withafocusonassessinghow AIcanmakeanimpactoneducation.
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