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4.1 Learning Management System

A Learning Management System (LMS) is used with Verkkoke 1.1 for managing student assignment statuses and results, submitting documents related to the assignment, e.g. assignment plans, for reporting purposes and for other value-adding functionality that a particular LMS may provide.

Since a university giving a networking course is likely to already have an LMS in use, it is usually desired to use this existing system to manage course information, such as students and their assignment scores.

Typically, a teacher performs the following tasks with Verkkoke 1.1:

Since the programming assignment grades are automatically stored in the LMS, the teacher does not need to learn how to use any new system. All of the teacher's tasks are done through the LMS, which the teacher is probably already familiar with.