Improving the Elective Courses Selection Process by Extending an Educational Platform

An essential and sometimes overlooked part of the educational process consists of the administrative procedures that need to take place for learning to occur smoothly. One such procedure is the selection of elective courses that some students need to complete, according to their corresponding curriculum. Moodle, the leading open-source Learning Management System, does not provide an adequate tool for directly facilitating this process. The purpose of this student-lead research was to design, build and test such a system. The results of the research, presented here and in a final diploma project, are encouraging and provide the starting point for an effective tool to manage the whole elective courses selection process.