Learning Management System (LMS) Questions

With the near universal switch to strictly online teaching in 2020/21 (including computer networking classes), there's been tremendous interest in using LMSs for student review, low-stakes knowledge checks, homeworks, quizzes and exams. And of course, faculty (including us) have never really enjoyed grading. We hear you!

Here you'll find LMS packages to accompany the 8th edition of our textbook, that can be used on Canvas, Blackboard, and Moodle (we've tried the packages out with all three LMSs; they've been used in D2L as well). There are three types of packages:

• Knowledge check questions: These are relatively simple questions to review basic material. One of the authors (Jim) used these as low-stakes-but-for-credit-if-you-get-more-than-half-of-the-answers-right online questions for students to answer in advance of a class; some are also suitable for homework and also possibly quizzes and exams.
• Homework and exam questions: These are more challenging and sometime require some (simple) computation.
• Wireshark Labs: These new LMS modules contain the questions and answers for Wireshark labs, using already-captured packet-trace files.

These LMS packages are available for download here. These LMS packages are only available to faculty (if you're a student, check out the interactive questions and the videos and knowledge check questions that are open to all). If you're a faculty member who would like to access the LMS packages, contact one of the authors at kurose@cs.umass.edu.

Comments and questions always welcome: kurose@cs.umass.edu