Developing additional features into ILIAS web-based learning management system

Electronic learning or e-learning has changed the design of teaching. Institutions of higher education are reviewing their organization to become familiar with e-learning to help achieve their goals in the educational sector. E-learning creates a new practice of education for students; what was not possible in a conventional classroom environment has now become a notable process. E-learning platforms have been adopted by pedagogical institutes, involving many attempts and the expenditure of large amounts of money. With these efforts, new technologies like knowledge detection frameworks, e-cooperation kits and project learning gates have been invented to support knowledge participation. One of the significant web-based inventions for distance learning platforms is Learning Management Systems (LMSs), which combine education in class and online learning during the learning process. There are many learning management systems; one of them is ILIAS, which is a web-based LMS developed by utilizing open source technologies such as PHP, MySQL and Apache as web server. ILIAS is most sophisticated in the German language, but also includes various languages like English. The ILIAS LMS platform is a medium that serves as the classroom repository for reading materials and related course work such as course syllabus and associated course content. The aim of the research is to search the literature to get more information about LMSs and to understand the concept, to learn more about ILIAS, to examine ILIAS to better understand its features and to search for features missing from ILIAS. Thus, the goals of the study will be writing codes to add three missing features to ILIAS. New features such as date filter for e-mails, move e-mails to folders by drag and drop and text formatting editor for message content have been added into ILIAS. Keywords: Electronic learning, Distance Education, Learning Management System (LMS), Open Source Systems, Course Management System.