Making Most of Eldiru as Learning Media in The Pandemic Era

Abstract

Pandemic condition drastically changes the world system. All universities close their face-to-face learning process. They change their learning activity into an online one. Learning management system (LMS) is developed in most universities to deal with the condition. Universitas Jenderal Soedirman as one of universities in Indonesia also develops its LMS to facilitate the learning process, called eLDirU (e-Learning Jenderal Soedirman University). eLDirU is an online learning platform functioned as a digital literacy learning innovation for native digital generation. It has many features that, indeed, can make the learning process easier. It has quite complete menus, such as assignment for comprehending the material, attendance for checking students' attendance, BigBlueButton for video conferencing, forum for chatting and having questionand-answer section for lecturers and students, Google Meet for Moodle for ease access in synchronous class, URL for linking more medias in helping students learn more, quiz for recording students' mastery about the topic in form of test, and others. It is also handy because both students and lecturers can download it in their smartphones and reach their learning classes wherever they are. eLDirU can be applied both for synchronous and asynchronous classes. It also make lecturers feel easy in handling many classes.