Quality Assurance Procedures: New Enhancements to the Learning Management System at AOU

This paper presents a complete description of the improvements that have been conducted for the learning management system at Arab Open University. AOU is the first regional university for open learning in the Middle East and North Africa. The university has strict regulations on the learning process to assure the quality of delivering all learning activities in an optimal way. Accordingly, there is a need to improve the existing learning management system to guarantee the implementation of such quality assurance regulations electronically to save time and cost and to perform all required procedures. In addition of describing the improvements, this paper also conducts a comparison between conforming with such regulations manually and the new online procedures over the learning management system.