Implementing Hadoop and Moodle Integrated Student Support System

Learning management systems (LMS) generate large amounts of real-time data which has the potential to provide valuable insights. Hadoop MapReduce is a scalable framework that is designed to handle such data. This paper presents a system architecture that integrates Hadoop MapReduce into Moodle, a popular LMS, for analyzing academic data. The implementation of the architecture allows users to generate a variety of reports from student attendance logs through a Moodle plugin which utilizes the Hadoop cluster for processing data. Users such as lecturers can then utilize these reports to identify which students do and do not engage in which courses as well as monitor their eligibility for exams. The use of Hadoop MapReduce provides high performance computing (HPC) capabilities that offer distributed parallel processing and economical scalability by means of adding commodity nodes to the cluster.