Republic of the Philippines

BOHOL ISLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

Tagbilaran City, 6300, Bohol, Philippines
Office of the College of Teacher Education
Balance I Integrity I Stewardship I Uprightness

Field Study 2
EPISODE 14
UTILIZING LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Name:
Resource Teacher:
Name of the school Observed:
School Address:
Date of Visit:

To have a meaningful and successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be

sure to read through the whole episode before participating and assisting in your
FS 2 Resource Teacher's class. Note all the information you will need and tasks
you will need to do before working on this episode.

Target Your Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Learning Episode, I must be able to:

• identify the components of an LMS as a virtual learning environment.

• demonstrate skills in using a learning management system (LMS, as a platform
for teaching and learning. (PPST 4.5.1)
• demonstrate positive attitude towards use of technology tools. (ICT CST 7.1.2)
• use professional reflection and learning to improve practice. (PPST 7.4.1)

Clarify Your Task

The learning environment has recently radically changed. No one would have
anticipated that a pandemic would shift the four corners of the brick-and-mortar
classroom to the four corners of a computer screen, a tablet, or even a cell phone!
While we believe teachers should be competent in organizing and using resources
in a physical classroom, a future teacher must be adept in utilizing technology
to set up, design, work and teach in a virtual classroom.
A virtual classroom is usually supported by a platform generally regarded as a
learning management system (LMS) in a flexible learning modality involving
online learning.

LMS is a course organizer software. It helps teachers plan, create, manage, and
deliver online education programs (Habulan, 2016.) The most common ones are
Canvas, Moodle, Google Classroom, Blackboard, Microsoft teams, Seasaw, and
our local one is Genyo.

As you have learned from your Technology for Teaching and Learning classes,
Learning Management Systems have features and functions that help teachers
manage an online classroom.
These features and functions are called by different names depending on the LMS
platform.

Below are some of the LMS common features and the functions and tasks that
teachers are able to use:

1. Dashboard - allows the teacher to see all his/her class/course cards;

2. Module Container - uploads modules and organize them)
3. Sandbox- a workspace that will enable teachers to make drafts or explore the
functions and practice setting up a subject or course.
4. Announcements - communicate with students regarding instruction, reminders
and changes
5. Discussion boards - set up discussion boards; make students collaborate
6. Meeting rooms - allow the teacher to present lessons and discuss with
students synchronously; enables learners to collaborate on a task/project
7. Assignment - allows orderly giving and scoring assignments
8. People- see who are the members of the class, get to know the learners more
through their profiles
9. Assessment/Quizzes - administer formative and summative assessments
10. Resources and add-ons- share and store files, use apps that support or
supplement the other functions of the LMS

Your task in this episode is to participate and assist in a virtual learning

environment through an LMS. Notice how the teacher organized her virtual
classroom. Apply your skills in facilitating the teaching and learning process by
participating in one or more of the teacher tasks discussed above.

In this episode, consider what you learned in your technology class about the
TPACK model. An effective teacher has technological, pedagogical and
content knowledge, TK, PK, and CK. In planning, setting up, and utilizing a
virtual environment through an LMS, these three components interface. You need
to have content mastery of what you will teach (CK). You also need to know how
to facilitate the teaching-learning process from beginning (gaining students'.
attention) to end (assessment and transfer)(PK); and have technological
knowledge (TK).

When you apply your technological knowledge to deliver accurate and relevant
content using the most appropriate pedagogical strategies in the context of a
virtual learning environment, and the learners achieve the learning outcomes,
boom! You have successfully interfaced TPACK!

As you work on this episode, actively notice, analyze and reflect on your
experience.
As an FS student, participate and assist well in organizing and using the learning
management system as you apply your technological, pedagogical and content
knowledge (ТРАСК). Be attentive to your role as a future teacher-researcher as
well. Continually discover more effective ways of interfacing TPACK. When you
do, you will become a teacher that initiates well-thought-of ways to improve and
enhance virtual teaching and learning.

Revisit the infographic on TPACK and how it relates to Learning

Management Systems (LMS). You may open the LMS sites on the internet to
see how they are structured. You can try-out how the different functions and tools
work. It will help you recall and focus once more on the various learning
management systems that serve as platform for virtual classrooms.
 Participate and Assist

Your guide to participate and assist:

1. Request your FS resource teacher or another teacher who uses an LMS for
his/her class to give you access and allow you to, "observe" his/her virtual
classroom through the LMS.
2. If possible, request the teacher to demonstrate how to navigate and use the
LMS.
3. Ask the teacher how you can participate or assist in tasks that the teacher is
organizing or preparing in the LMS.
4. Be guided by the TPACK infographic in this episode. The questions found
there will help you notice, analyze and reflect very well.

Level/Grade of the Class:

Subject:

Lesson or Topic:

Lesson objectives/learning outcomes:

Which LMS did the teacher use: Check one or more that were used.
________ Moodle
________ Schoology
________ Google Classroom
________ Edmodo
________ Genyo
________ See saw
________ others ________________________

What tasks did you participate or assist in? Fill out the table below.

What components or parts were present in Under these LMS components or parts, what
the tasks did you participate/assist in?
LMS used by the teacher?
Notice

After you participated or assisted in the LMS, describe what you observed and
experienced by answering the items below.

1.Describe the structure of the LMS utilized by the teacher. How was it
organized? What main components did you find?

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2. How was the content taught or delivered? How were the learning activities
arranged?
What strategies did the teacher or you use to help students attain the
objectives/outcomes?

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3. What was your experience in participating and assisting?

Analyze

1. What do you think are the best features of the LMS that the teacher used?
How did these features help the students learn the content?

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2. How did the teacher/or you use the LMS to implement the strategies /activities
planned?

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3. How did this connect with what you know about LMS and TPACK?

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4. What problem or challenges did the teacher/ you or the students encounter in
working with the LMS? How did it/they affect the teacher/learners? What part/s of
the LMS do you think can still be improved? How can this/these be improved?

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Reflect

1. How ready are you in organizing and using an LMS?

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2. Enumerate the knowledge, skills and attitudes you already have to organize
your virtual learning environment and use an LMs:

Content:

Pedagogical:

Technological:

3. What do you still need to learn in order to use the LMS effectively?
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Write Action Research Prompts

This part allows you to synthesize or put together what you noticed, analyzed,
and reflected on to come up with a possible topic to explore for action research.

OBSERVE

1. What problematic situation / challenges /area of improvement did you see

while you participated and assisted using an LMS?
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List at least three sources that you have read about this problem/challenge.

Resource or Reference about the Topic Key points/findings in what I read

On what theory/principles can this problem be anchored?

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REFLECT

1. What do I hope to address - the problem/challenge/area of improvement in

LMS use? What change do you want to achieve?
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PLAN

2. What strategies/solution/means can you employ to improve the situation/solve

the problem?
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ACT

3. If you will conduct an action research, what will be the title (Base this on your
answers in nos. 1-3):

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 Check for Mystery

Direction: Read the following questions then select the letter of the correct
answer.

1. Mr. Mahusay is ensuring using the polling feature of the LMS as a strategy to
increase participation of his students in their lesson on qualities of national
leaders. He is utilizing his _____.
A. Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)
B. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)
C. Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK)
D. Content Technology Knowledge (CTK)

2. Ms. Del Rosario is careful to match the learning outcomes with the content and
activities she is going to do. She also sees to it that the assessment measures
the attainment of the learning outcomes. She is using her
A. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)
B. Pedagogy Technological Knowledge
C. Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPR)
D. Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)

3. Ms. Juan is utilizing the feature of the LMS to provide regular information
updates on the topic she and her students are exploring. She is using
A. Technological Content Knowledge (TCK)
B. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)
C. Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK)
D. Content Technology Knowledge (CTK)

4. All are true about learning management systems, EXCEPT

A. Has components and features that teachers can use in teaching
B. Is a platform for a virtual learning environment
C. Microsoft office is an example of this
D. Canvas is an example of this

5. Through the LMS, the teacher can do the following tasks, EXCEPT.
A. Post assignments and projects
B. Set up discussion boards
C. Make students collaborate
D. Meet students face to face
Work on my Artifacts

Attach pieces of evidence of what you have accomplished in this episode.