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E-learning is a constantly developing manner of distant courses distribution. With a technological progress its effectiveness and usability controlling abilities has increased and should be measured in order to provide more efficient web solutions. In this paper, multi-modal, user tracking, web usability testing platform is presented. Presented platform provides Afterwards selected Moodle based e-learning implementation usability testing was performed revealing its drawbacks and misfunctionality.

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Wojciechowski, A., Meller, P. (2010). E-Learning Usability Testing Platform. In: Nguyen, N.T., Zgrzywa, A., Czyżewski, A. (eds) Advances in Multimedia and Network Information System Technologies. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14989-4_25

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