Educational Use of Jira for Learning Management System

Abstract

To facilitate project-based learning and lifetime skill development, universities in today's   higher-education                      settings progressively use digital tools and cooperative learning strategies. Industry standards in software and product development, meanwhile, stress agile approaches such as Jira's support of Scrum and Kanban workflows—which highlight transparency, iteration, continuous feedback, and team accountability.

To act as a dedicated Jira embedded inside or next to a conventional Learning Management System (LMS), this study suggests an integrated model. The layer of academic project management helps to close the gap between classroom task-tracking and real-world team operations.

Using Jira's features including backlog management, sprint boards, issue tracking, and extensive collaboration history, student groups and faculty advisors can better see project milestones. Personal contributions, team dynamics, and delivery deadlines. Previous studies have shown the viability and advantages of including industry tools into academic contexts (e.g., including the

Atlassian tool suite in capstone-projects) with favorable project transparency and time management results.

Moreover, research on agile education show that including ongoing planning, reflection, and adaption into learning cycles helps pupils to be more engaged, work together better, and control their own. The main research question the paper tries to answer in this setting is: How can Jira be used in an academicLMS environment to help with project-based learning? What operational and educational advantages might follow? In an exploratory study, we board student teams (in a project-based course) on Jira-driven workflows (epics, stories, sprints) linked with their LMS environment. Among the things we look at are how often teams talk to each other, how well they meet their goals, how long it takes to solve problems, how students feel about being held responsible, and how well teachers feel they are being watched. Our projected results point to faster identification of at-risk chores, better team coordination, more obvious role-visibility, and more detailed information for teachers to track development. These benefits fit with the need of contemporary education to not only provide  knowledge  but  also  to develop

cooperation, digital-workflow literacy, and the capacity to Iterative, feedback-driven processes let you work quite similarly to what they do in the real world.

But the paper also notes some major problems: the learning curve for students new to Jira, possible overuse of tool-features that aren't useful for academic work, and the logistical mapping of Jira workflows to course calendars and making sure they are aligned with assessment frameworks takes time and money. By talking about things, we can come up with ways to make things better, like using simpler Jira templates or having teachers training, staged roll-out, and sprint length matching with semester schedules.