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myUnisa student portal to get upgrade using Moodle

The University of South Africa (Unisa) has announced a rather big upgrade for its myUnisa platform happening in a few weeks as it will adopt Moodle.

Both of these software environments need some explanation so let’s start with myUnisa which is the student portal for students to submit assignments, write exams, partake in discussion, access learning materials and more.

Moodle, on the other hand, is open source learning management system (LMS) software that, according to its homepage, is used by big names such as Shell, the University of Cambridge, Mazda, Monash University and even the United Nations.

“Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments,” reads the about page.

Unisa has provided reasons why the change to Moodle is being made, stating that myUnisa:

  • “is dated;
  • faces challenges with capacity, load, performance and reliability;
  • can no longer handle upgrades and improvements;
  • cannot adequately cater for the teaching and learning activities such as increased interactivity and innovative assessment types.”

While Unisa is known as a distance learning university it was required in the past for students to write their exams in person by converging on exam halls.

This was made impossible due to the pandemic and the university trialled online exams before making them a permanent fixture in September 2020.

myUnisa has always suffered with the aforementioned problems above and this extra load from the exams and the higher need for more online learning are two big factors here.

These upgrades are said to be happening “in just a few weeks” according to an announcement.

“Moodle will be Unisa’s official online teaching, learning and collaboration platform used to support fully online and blended courses as well as other UNISA related research, groups and communities,” the announcement reads.

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