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
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• 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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 More

RAM:512 MB Ram
Hard Disk: PC with 20GB