ABSTRACT This paper discusses about the data Mining process in the field of education. A database is a collection of data. It stores information which can be useful in the future. This data can be utilized for extracting useful information by applying various data mining techniques. These techniques when applied in the educational data obtained from various sources like offline sources, online sources or from Learning Management System is beneficial for the Universities, Institutes in decision making in various ways. Educational data mining can be used for classifying and predicting students’ performance, dropouts as well as teachers’ performance. It can help educators to track academic progress to improve the teaching process, it can help students in course selection and educational management to be more progressive, efficient and effective. Keywords: Knowledge Discovery in data base, Education Data Mining (EDM), Learning Management System (LMS), Data Mining Techniques