Desarrollo de un módulo administrativo y de seguridad para un sistema de gestión de aprendizaje en línea (lms)

Abstract

The advent of the Internet and its constant growth in use by the population has allowed considerable improvements in access to education and professional training, thanks to virtual education platforms known as e-learning, which allow self-management of learning and is coupled to the needs of the different social and economic sectors of countries worldwide. Due to the importance of education and professional training centers, their access has become one of the most important problems for most countries in the world, especially for those developing countries, as is the case of many Latin American countries. Consequences of this can be seen in the high demand for places in universities and professional training centers, places that are limited due to various limitations of the entities that offer them and that do not meet the demand requested. Online learning platforms have revolutionized the way of learning around the world, allowing self-management of learning to take advantage and develop new knowledge or skills without harming or neglecting their activities and responsibilities, simply by having access to the Internet and from any geographical location it is possible to access all these benefits, which represents an attractive proposal compared to traditional learning methods that do not meet the needs of the modern world. One of the problems with current online learning platforms is that in most cases they are presented only as an extension or modality of a traditional educational organization, which limits the content and its dissemination to the capabilities they can offer. The proposal developed in this work seeks to turn these entities into a regulatory entity rather than a creator of the educational content they offer, deriving the work of creation and management of content to professionals and experts who wish to share their knowledge and skills to the world, thus, taking advantage of web technology, an integrated platform for dissemination has been created, management and administration of educational content, based on three types of known systems, the e-commerce system for the dissemination of content, the learning management system (LMS) and the administrative system for the regulation and control of the resources of the platform, the latter being the one described in this degree work. The development of the system was carried out under the methodology of Extreme Programming or XP, which allowed the development in a short period of time and with the help of a reduced work group, following the guidelines provided by this type of agile methodologies, the process of requirements management, development and evaluation of the software was achieved in a short time, fulfilling the expectations set by the objectives of the project. This resulted in the design and implementation of an administrative module for the resources of the online learning platform, consisting of users, students, instructors, courses, sales, promotions and business logic configurations for the dissemination and marketing of published content