Students and Instructors Perception on the Use of Moodle-LMS in the Department of Computer Science in Veritas University

Teaching and learning has become a significant factor in today’s world, where numerous nations are putting great amount of monetary resource in education in view that education is essential for any nation to develop. The new trend of developing countries are to invest into modern innovations for educational purposes with function to make learning more adaptable, progressively viable and effective. Lots of Nigerian universities still lack the effort to arrange a good structure online learning course that support student learning ability also having access to learning materials from anywhere. Learning is not a popular teaching approach in Nigeria, but most Universities in Nigeria prefer off - campuses for their distant student who enrols in their educational programs. Many universities in Nigerian still practice full-time traditional approach of teaching - school campus. This makes e-learning unpopular in Nigerian Universities. This study used both quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyse students and instructors` perception towards use of Moodle with sample size of 107 participants were used to collect data from the department of computer science at Veritas University. However, the study provides positive and fresh perceptions towards both theoretical and real-life challenges of LMS and the results show that the attitude and perceptual experience of students and instructors within the department of computer science at Veritas University were positively significant and this is due to the fact that new methods are incorporate modern applications with learning activity, this brings more and new approach to school curriculum. Keywords: E-learning, Moodle, Higher education, Learning Management System, Nigeria.