Forums Access Visualization on a Distance Learning Environment

Among the various distance learning environments, Moodle is the most widely used. However, despite being a very complete and flexible platform for distance education it does not have user-friendly tools that teachers can assess the student's interactions disposing only a module to display the usage logs. The VAFAE - Forum Access Visualization on a Distance Learning Environment is a web tool that visually maps the data and their respective numerical analysis. In a more specific way, VAFAE aims to help teachers to better understand the level and quality of the interaction of the students with the modules of the learning units in a distance learning environment. This article sums up the similar tools already available, explains some concepts of information visualization theory and finally explains how VAFAE was built and the technologies used.