Virtual Classroom Abstract

Virtual Class Room System

ABSTRACT

Project Title: Virtual Class Room System

Category: Application Development, Enterprise.

Objective:

Developing a virtual classroom system to promote a greater count of students

to splurge into the field of Education. It integrates the benefits of a physical

classroom with the convenience of a ‘no-physical-bar’ virtual learning environment,

minus the commuting hazards and expenses. It will usher in the immense flexibility

and sophistication in the existing learning platform structures, with the perfect blend

of synchronous and asynchronous interaction. It provides a means of collaborative

learning for the students.

Functional Requirements:

Students can choose courses

Registration for Multiple Courses

Attend lectures either at the scheduled time or on request view

lecture at a later time.

Faculties can take lectures, upload assignments,

announcements, evaluate answer sheets and also can upload

lectures and other discussions in various formats as in videos,

power point presentation etc.

Upload and Download of various assignments, college notices,

Student’s notices, journals, videos.

Real Time collaboration among – A/B via mails, shared and

interactive whiteboards

Asynchronous communication in the form of Emails, discussion

boards that enable communication to occur at "convenient-

times" that suit student schedules and are not accessed at

simultaneous or prearranged times.

There can be forums, blogs etc to discuss various queries and to

put up suggestions posted both by students and teachers

Administrator can generate reports

Shared documents and media library that can help in active

learning of a student


Users must have valid User ID and password to login thus

creating their individual profiles.

Students can take up various quizzes which can help them to

realize their inbuilt talents in various fields.

Non Functional Requirements:

Secure access of confidential data (user’s details). SSL can be used.

24 X 7 availability

Better component design to get better performance at peak time

Flexible service based architecture will be highly desirable for future

extension

THE EXISTING SYSTEM

The present system is a manual system or a semi-automated system. Manual

system involves paper work in the form of maintaining various files and manuals.

Maintaining critical information in the files and manuals is full of risk and a tedious

process.

The existing system needs to save his information in the form of excel sheets or Disk Drives.

There is no sharing is possible if the data is in the form of paper or Disk drives.

The manual system gives us very less security for saving data; some data may be lost due to mismanagement.

It’s a limited system and fewer users friendly.

Searching of particular information is very critical it takes lot of time.

In the existing system students need to learn course in the class room only.

In the manual system student need bare the lot of time and cost.

The existing system need to travel to a location in which to participate in the course or lessons.

There is no direct interaction provided between faculties and students.

Exam conducting and result announcement is a tedious process.

PRPOSED SYSTEM

The development of this new system contains the following activities, which

try to automate the entire process keeping in the view of database integration

approach.


User Friendliness is provided in the application with various controls provided

by system Rich User Interface.

The system makes the overall project management much easier and flexible.

It can be accessed over the Intranet.

The user information files can be stored in centralized database which can be

maintained by the system.

This can give the good security for user information because data is not in

client machine.

Authentication is provided for this application only registered members can

access.

As the virtual classroom is one that aims to give the student an

experience equal to or better than the sort they would find in a traditional

classroom, there are obviously many advantages of the virtual classroom to

the student, as well as the teacher (or instructor) and the associated

educational institution.

Advantages for Students

For students of virtual classrooms, advantages primarily concern access, time,

and cost factors compared to those incurred from attending the traditional, physical

classroom.

Virtual classrooms remove the need to travel to a location in which to

participate in the course or lessons, thus they are an advantage to students as they

can be accessed from the student’s home and they do not have to pay for transport

as they would if they were attending a traditional classroom. Virtual classrooms can

be accessed from any computer that has the necessary software, hardware, Internet

connection, and Internet browser requirements in order to participate in the virtual

classroom.

Discussions and chat can be archived in the virtual classroom for instant

reviewing, which is another advantage to students. The minimal time needed to

participate in a virtual classroom is an advantage to students. Virtual classrooms are

also diverse; students from many geographical locations can enroll in the virtual

classroom, which gives students the advantage of working with others that bring

different ideas and backgrounds to collaborative learning activities and projects, thus

presenting possibilities and interests in fields not previously considered.


Advantages for Faculties

For teachers of virtual classrooms, working part-time is a possibility because

of the flexible nature of the classroom. The teacher is not required to work from an

office or classroom to instruct lessons or organize material and lessons; this can be

done from anywhere where they have access to a computer with an Internet

connection and other necessary software/hardware, which is an advantage.

Electronic content can be updated more efficiently than printed material, and

at a lower cost, which saves the teacher time and money when preparing and

adjusting material to suit their lessons and courses within their virtual classroom.

Changes or updates in anything within the virtual classroom are instantly accessible

to everyone enrolled in the classroom. This “ease of update” is an advantage to the

teacher, and also to the student, who will be receiving, and learning with, up-to-date

examples.

Another advantage to the teacher or instructor is that they have “time to

respond to student communications” in the virtual classroom, which gives the

teacher a chance to construct the best possible response to the student. This is often

not possible in a traditional classroom, as issues are raised face-to-face where

answers are expected straight away. In the virtual classroom time delays between

student’s questions and teacher’s answers are expected; this is the nature of the

virtual classroom.

NUMBER OF MODULES

The system after careful analysis has been identified to be presented with the following modules:

Administrators /Managers

Faculties

Students


Web Registration

Virtual Training

Exam Conducting

Search

Reports

Authentication

Web Registration

The system has a process of registration. Every student need to submit his

complete details in the form of registration. Whenever a student registration

completed automatically student can get a user id and password. By using that user

id and password student can log into the system. If registration process is completed

successfully an email remainder is generated and sends to the citizen.

Administrators

Administrator is treated as a super user in this system. He can have all the

privileges to do anything in this system. Admin can prepare course curriculum, along

with course content by the help of the faculties. He can collect the course video’s and

stored into in the centralized database.

Another tasks done by the administrator is he can generates reports, log files,

backup, recovery of data any time.

Faculty

Faculties can take lectures, uploads assignments, announcements, evaluate

answer sheets and also upload lectures, and other discussions in various formats as

in the form of videos and power point presentations.

Students

Students can choose courses, attend lectures, take exams, and view their

attendance records, progress reports as per their convenience through this system

only.

One student can register multiple courses. Take their classes on the schedule

time or later their convenience. By using the system interface student learn the

courses properly and attend the exams as an online mode. Results will be

announced through online only.


Virtual Training

Asynchronous communication in the form of emails, discussion boards that

enable communication to occur at “convenient-times” that suit student schedules

and are not accessed at simultaneous or prearranged times.

Exam Conducting

When ever a student is completed his course, an exam should be conducted,

students need to attend the exam properly. It’s an online exam. The results will be

announced later after the papers are evaluated by the faculties.

Reports

Different kind of reports is generated by the system.

Student Progress report Request.

Faculty performance report.

Time based and request attendance reports for the students.

Authentication

Authentication is nothing but providing security to the system. Here every

must enter into the system throw login page. The login page will restrict the UN

authorized users. A user must provide his credential like user Id and password for log

into the system. For that the system maintains data for all users. Whenever a user

enters his user id and password, it checks in the database for user existence. If the

user is exists he can be treated as a valid user. Otherwise the request will throw

back.

KEYWORDS:

Generic Technology Keywords: Database, User Interface, Programming

Specific Technology Keywords: Asp.Net 3.5, C#.Net, MS SqlServer-05

Project Keywords: Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing

SDLC Keywords: Presentation, Business Object, Data Access Layer

ENVIRONMENT:

Servers:

Operating System Server: Windows XP or later

Database Server: Microsoft SQL Server-2005

Client: Microsoft Internet Explorer


Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio .Net-2008

User Interface: Asp.Net with Ajax

Code Behind: VC#.Net

Hardware Specification:

Processor: Intel Pentium or MoreRAM:512 MB RamHard Disk: PC with 20GB

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Virtual Classroom Abstract