Banca de DEFESA: ERIC EDUARDO DA SILVA ALENCAR

AUTHORING TOOL FOR INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN - ATID NOTIFICATIONS MODULE: A PROPOSAL FOCUSED ON ACTIVITIES DELIVERY

ATID; Moodle; Instructional design; System notifications.

Distance Education still continues to grow in relevance today, and for this modality, the so-called virtual learning environments (VLE) have emerged as a support for course management. Among them, we can highlight the Moodle platform, which allows the creation and management of courses. In addition to VLEs, for the planning and definition of strategies for these courses, tools are available to define and visualize the instructional design - DI, which is the field of study responsible for the design of the planning of a course. Such tools allow the construction of flowcharts, such as the Authoring Tool for Instructional Design (ATID), which allows teachers to define or import the DI of a course through integration with Moodle. ATID currently has a demand for teachers to be notified about the non-performance of activities by students. In this way, the objective of this research is to develop a module, that is, a new improvement for ATID which will allow teachers to communicate about DI activities that were not carried out. In this way, this research is guided by the questioning of how it is possible to help teachers to identify students with activities not carried out through notifications directly in the DI. In addition, the research sought to develop the module from the application of the Design Science Research (DSR) methodology to guide the development, which aimed at the application of user tests with the module already developed and its evaluation through a questionnaire. As a result, it was highlighted that test participants were satisfied with the inclusion of notifications within the DI and believe that this inclusion will imply better monitoring of the course.