The seamless integration of virtualized lessons with a fully automated workflow into the LMS VMC/Moodle of the Medical University of Graz

In 2002 the Virtual Medical Campus Graz (VMC), the eLearning portal of the Medical University of Graz (MUG), was launched. Since 1 Oct 2010 the primary learning management system is VMC/Moodle. It currently holds more than 10,600 unique learning objects, and serves more than 4,300 students from three studies. We introduce the concept and its technical implementation of virtual lessons within the study of the diploma study human medicine. Once the eLearning content is created, the process is fully automated from the teachers’ point of view. This includes generation of the virtual lessons for the enrolled students and the transmission of grades to our central course administration system MEDonline. No further administrative interaction by the teachers are needed. Teachers can fully concentrate on continuously updating of the virtual content and can answer questions, which students might have during execution of the virtual lesson.