USE OF SHAREPOINT AS A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BY KSU FACULTY
USE OF SHAREPOINT AS A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BY KSU FACULTY
Author(s): Reima Al-JarfSubject(s): Education
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: SharePoint LMS; SharePoint Wiki; SharePoint Forum; SharePoint blog; King Saud University; faculty usage
Summary/Abstract: King Saud University (KSU) launched the SharePoint Server in September 2007. A website was created for each faculty and all faculty had to upload their publications, conference presentations and course materials. Since SharePoint is also a Learning Management System (LMS) with tools such as forums, blogs, wikis, a calendar, announcements, RSS feed, surveys, the present study aims to find out the percentage of KSU faculty utilizing those SharePoint LMS tools and the factors affecting their utilization. It was found that the KSU faculty have utilized the SharePoint’s course tool to upload their course materials, exams, students’ projects, Internet websites related to their courses. However utilization of the SharePoint LMS tools such as wikis, forums or blogs for instructional purposes is almost lacking. No training is provided in the SharePoint LMS tool utilization as they are considered of secondary importance.
Journal: Conference proceedings of »eLearning and Software for Education« (eLSE)
- Issue Year: 5/2009
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 351-356
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English