Development The Process of Designing Online Moodle

Indicator:  Students should be able to make reservation.  Students should be able to make complaint.  Students should be able to make arrangement.  Students should be able to cancel arrangement ask about detailed information and answered correctly.  Students should be able to express their wish or unreal situation conditional sentences and subjunctive wish Instructional strategy: Collaborative methods as instructional method which emphasize the social dimension of learning and engage learners sharing knowledge and performing tasks in a collaborative way Delivery strategy: E-mail, discussion forums, screens with text and images

4.1.3. Development

In this stage, the researcher developed content, storyboard, and installed Moodle as courseware. This stage also employed the experts in order to validate the researcher’s online Moodle. The experts had an obligatory to give their opinions and suggestion by completing the provided questionnaires. The experts were the English teacher who taught the third grade of technique of light vehicle in SMKN 1 Purworejo and the expert from SEAMOLEC. In order to install Moodle as courseware, the researcher created sub domain in the researcher’s website and installed Moodle in the hosting. The screen shot of Control Panel CPanel in the hosting could be seen in figure 4.1 Figure 4.1: CPanel The researcher develop the content of e-learning based on the previous stage then make storyboard to define each part of the e-learning. The users accessed the e-learning by accessing http:www.cc.pakakbar.com , they would then see the homepage contained navigation menus that allowed users to access the website contents. The screen shot of the front page could be seen in figure 4.2 Figure 4.2: Front page The function and the description of content for each site page are stated in table 4.7. Table. 4.7. Web Pages Functions and Content Description Online Moodle as E-Learning Media in Teaching English for the Industrial Internship Students Website Page and Content Home page  This page fast loading and contains welcome message,  This page provides 3 links to download, forum and FAQ Frequently Asked Questions Course  This page presents materials, video, sound and that are essential to build students’ knowledge about the topic in the course  This page also provides downloadable materials in form of PDF or PPT files which they can save for future recalling. Quiz  This page contains exercises of the learned topic in several kinds of exercises.  This page aims to measure students’ understanding on the discussed topic.  This page also provides obtained score and the lecturer’s feedback after students attempted the quiz. Forum  This page serves as a place for students to post and share their experience in.  This page offers collaborative learning activities allowing students to work together and share ideas. Download  This page provide video, sound and material to be downloaded by students. FAQ  This page contain frequently asked questions about how to use the electronic learning. Widget  Widgets can be accessed from home page. It contains useful additional applications embedded in the rght and left bar of the webiste to help students to: o Chat with the teacher via Yahoo Messenger, o Look up confusing words via Online Dictionary Navigation  This page lists all links in the site enable students to go directly to their desired page. In order to validate the researcher’s online Moodle, the researcher in this part presents the expert ’s opinion on the designed learning model by stating expert’s agreement, disagreement and doubt by choosing one of five points of agreement. The expert were an English teacher of SMKN 1 Purworejo and an expert from SEAMOLEC. The questionnaire is aimed to achieve feedback dealing with the appropriateness of designed online Moodle as e-learning media in teaching English for students of grade three Technique of Light Vehicle SMKN 1 Purworejo. The point of agreement of preliminary field testing questionnaire was presented on the table 4.8. Table 4.8. Meaning of Point Agreement Point of Agreement Meaning Score 1 Strongly disagree 1 2 Disagree 2 3 Doubt 3 4 Agree 4 5 Strongly Agree 5 The interpretation of point of agreement, which is presented on a following table: Table 4.9. The Interpretation of the Degree of Agreement Range Meaning 1.00 -1.99 Replace the rejected part of the design 2.00 – 2.99 Add more part or modify part of the design based on the lack on the statement. 3.00 – 3.99 Conduct more exploration on the existing part of the design based on the statement 4.00 – 5.00 No revision Subsequently, the following is the table of the Descriptive Statistics of expert’s opinions. Table 4.10. The Descriptive Statistics of Expert ’s Opinions No . Statements Frequency of points of agreement Central Tendency 1 2 3 4 5 N M 1. The learning indicators in the online Moodle are in line with the basic competences and standard competences. 1 1 2 3.5 2. The online Moodle provides learners with the clear knowledge of the program objectives. 2 2 4 3. The online Moodle has friendly user interface 2 2 4 4.. The explanation of the lesson in each topic has been well described in the online Moodle 2 2 4 5. The instruction of the course is clear and easy to follow . 2 2 4 6. Multimedia features video, sound, pictures help learner build their understanding 2 2 4 7. Downloadable materials enrich students knowledge in each topic. 1 1 2 4.5 8. The instruction of the quizzes are clear and easy to follow 1 1 2 4.5 9. The quizzes are able to support the topic being discussed. 2 2 4 10. The types of quizzes are varied, thereby obviating the students from boredom in doing the exercises 2 2 4 11. The forum instructions are clear and easy to understand. 2 2 4 12. The forum activity is able to engage the students 2 2 5 13. The forum activity is related with the discussed topic. 2 2 4 14. The provided links can be accessed flawlessly. 2 2 4 15. The provided links can gain attention and maintain motivation of the learners while helping learners understand the materials deeper. 2 2 4 16. a. The Moodle Learning Model is appropriate to be implemented for second semester students of Technique of Light Vehicle 2 2 4 17. The Moodle Learning Model provides learners with frequent and varied learning activities that increase learning success. 1 1 2 4,5 18. The web provides supporting tools dictionary, YM Chat, comment box, etc 1 1 2 4,5 19. The Moodle Learning Model is easy to navigate provide clear instruction 2 2 5 20.. The Moodle Learning Model is free from technical problem. 1 1 2 3.5 21.. The Moodle Learning Model has a consistency colour, layout, font and capitalization are consistent from screen to screen. 2 2 4 22.. Generally, the learning model is well designed 2 2 5 Total 2 32 10 44 92 Total score 184 Mean 4,2 After the data were calculated and analyzed, it was found that the results were satisfying. From the expert’s opinions on the electronic learning, it was found out that the average point of the central tendency is 4.2 from the scale 5.0. It indicates that the designed materials are good and acceptable for students of grade three Technique of Light Vehicle SMKN 1 Purworejo. The following step was elaborating the experts’ suggestion for revision. The discussion would be divided into two parts. The first part was the revision of the learning materials in the e-learning by an English teachers of SMK Negeri 1 Purworejo who had experience in teaching learning process and developing learning content and curriculum. The second part was the revision of the system of the Moodle as electronic learning by an expert from SEAMOLEC who had experience in designing and developing online distance learning. In the revision of the learning materials in the e-learning the experts stated that the material was too complicated and some materials also did not match with basic competence and not reflected with the indicator in the syllabus. It would be better to simplify the material and it should refers to basic competence and the indicator. The experts also gave suggestions to add assignment to practice some expressions about reservation. Meanwhile in the revision of the system of the Moodle as electronic learning, the expert stated that email based self registration in login menu should be disabled because everybody could make an account in the online Moodle and it would make bandwidth of the server limited. The expert also gave suggestion to add plugin Moodbile Mobile Learning for Moodle so that online Moodle would be easily accessed by students who use mobile phone. The expert found an error when he accessed the online Moodle. The screen shot of the error could be seen in figure 4.3. . Figure 4.3: Error Having gathered the data from the experts to gain the validity of the online Moodle, the researcher started revising the designed product. The revision themselves were based on the experts’ suggestions and criticisms. The revision started from the syllabus. The first step was adjusting the basic competences with the aim of meeting the students’ needs. In the second step, the researcher added assignment in unit 2 and asked student to recorded the expression of reservation and upload it. The screen shot of revision in learning material could be seen in figure 4.4. Figure 4.4: Revision in learning material The following revisions were conducted for the system of the Moodle as electronic learning. Firstly the researcher disabled email based self registration then added plugin Moodbile Mobile Learning for Moodle in the plugin menu. The next revision dealt with error in database connection, the researcher then asked the webhosting to restart the server to fix the error. The screen shot of disabled email based self registration could be seen in figure 4.5. Figure 4.5: Disabled email based self registration The screen shot of added plugin Moodbile Mobile Learning for Moodle in the plugin menu could be seen in figure 4.6. Figure 4.6: Added plugin Moodbile Mobile Learning for Moodle

4.1.4. Implementation