The benefits and drawbacks that the use of the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle Campus UES brings to students of the Practice Teaching II subject from the Bachelor Degree of English, Teaching Option of the Foreign Language Department to comprehend the necessary adoption conditions in the remote learning methodology of the course during the semester II, year 2020.

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The methodology of the different subjects of the Bachelor of Arts in English, Teaching Option of the Foreign Language Department at the University of El Salvador was facing a difficult situation due to the forced use of technological tools and Learning Management System of technology specifically the use of the Learning Management System Moodle Campus UES to make it part of the remote learning methodology due to the Pandemic of COVID-19. In response to this problematic, the purpose of this bibliographical research was to determine the benefits and drawbacks that the use of the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle Campus UES brings to students of the Practice Teaching II subject from the Bachelor Degree of English, Teaching Option of the Foreign Language Department to comprehend the necessary adoption conditions in the remote learning methodology of the course during the semester II, year 2020. In order to achieve this purpose, the recollection of information from other researchers was necessary as well as some surveys for students and interviews for professors from the Practice Teaching II subject. The results determined the benefits and drawbacks that the use of the learning Management System (LMS) Moodle Campus UES brings to students of the Practice Teaching II subject from the Bachelor Degree of English, Teaching Option; described why the Practice Teaching II professors use the Learning Management System Moodle Campus UES; listed the characteristics of the pedagogical mediation and identified the assessment approaches when using it. The Foreign Language Department can use this study for further analysis of the methodological and instructional adaptations in the aforementioned course for the learning process of a foreign language with quality through the Learning Management System Moodle Campus UES. Key words: Learning Management System, Moodle, remote learning, methodology, pedagogical mediation and assessment approaches

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Learning management system, moodle, remote learning, methodology, pedagogical mediation, assessment approaches

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