Week 11: Develop simple web applications for managing information and other resources using available tools

Our purpose in that week was to learn about Web Information Systems and followings are definitions for this topic:  What is a Web Information System (WIS)? An information system using WWW as part of the deployment and implementation technology. 

Deployment: Web as communication mechanism Implementation: Web as distributed computing platform

Different Types of WIS: Informational, Disseminate information (static or dynamic), Share information (among visitors or WISs), Transactional, Conduct transactional business (B2C, C2C, B2B…) ,Perform tasks (simple, complex and collaborative)


After that we had case study: Instruction for case study is following: 
Case study – Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Search on the internet the definition of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and give three examples of LMS.

Read the handout 10.1.1: Moodle Helps a Business School Overcome Administrative Challenges.

Describe the situation faced in the case study.

Identify what are the main problems in the case study.

Explain how Moodle the learning management system can solve these problems.