Online Course Portal

ABSTRACT:
This project aims at creating a Course portal for a campus. This allows registered users
of the system to join a course available in the site and access the materials published for the
course. People can register themselves as students of a course or faculty for a course. When a
person registers himself as a Faculty, an approval mechanism should be send through an email to
the Administrator for approving the person .The approval mechanism for faculty is based on test.
The approval mechanism for students is based on criteria and if selected, they can submit their
curriculum fees through credit card mechanism.
It has an announcement section which contains the latest announcements, and also a course
content section which gives the links for the material available for the course .The administrator
will be maintaining some FAQs. For faculty members also will be having a seperate link for
uploading the course content. There will be a mechanism to create a test for the course specifying
the test title and a set of multiple-choice questions and duration of time for the test. This project
also contains leave management mechanism using online approval of leave for faculty.
Due to the implementation for the course portal online, admissions into the selected courses are
made with an ease by optimizing the time.
Existing and need for new system:
In the existing system all the work is done manually where hard copy of student, faculty
information is maintained which is tedious process. The existing systems do not offer much
convenience because the students from distant places have to attend the classes on the proposed
time. Online courses provide a way to take classes to advance career, or just learn about new
subjects without commuting to campus on regular basis or spending time away from ones own
family. Online learning offers much more flexibility and convenience because it is primarily
asynchronous-anytime, anyplace. In online courses instructors and students communicate via

Internet. Through online courses students can develop not only their technical skills but also
communication skills. And also they get self-Motivated.
In the proposed system the faculty can apply for the leave online without attending the campus.
Proposed system:
The functions that have to be performed by the proposed system are listed below:

The Proposed system must provide user-friendly interface.

The system must be able to store entire details of the all the users permanently after

their registration process.

Care must be taken not to provide the details of the user to other users who are logged

in.

The system must provide easy navigation through available services.

The system should perform all the operations perfectly without any problem.

The basic functionality to be provided by proposed system is that it should be able to overcome
the deficits of the existing system.
Modules:
The given project is divided into four scenarios or modules where each module is implemented
separately.
Scenario 1: Administrator
Scenario 2: Student
Scenario 3: Faculty
Scenario 4: Discussion Board

Scenario 1:
Name: Administrator
Description: The objective of this module is to maintain all the information related with the
online courses. Administrator is the person who adds new courses, approves the faculty by
conducting test, gives any announcements to the students and faculty and also approves leave to
the faculty. The administrator also views the feedback provided by the students and faculty
members. Administrator has own login id and password through which it logs into the
administrator home page and carries on different functionalities.
Scenario 2:
Name: Student
Description: Student is the one who selects the course and learns online. At first a person
registers himself as a student for a course by filling registration form, In the process of
registration he pays the course fee through credit card mechanism. Every student has own login
id and password through which the student can login into the student homepage directly. Any
student has certain functionalities such as he can view the course material, give feedback about
the courses, view the announcements from the administrator. Every student has to undergo tests,
which are conducted online. Student interacts with the faculty and clarifies his doubts through
participating in discussion boards. All the data related with the student is stored in the database
and retrieved accordingly.
Scenario 3:
Name: Faculty
Description: Every course has an appointed instructor for successful completion of the courses
selected by the students. First a person registers himself as a faculty; later on test is conducted for
registered candidates. If the person qualifies in the test conducted then he is approved as faculty
otherwise the person is not allowed to enter the faculty homepage and access the functionalities.
Faculty has to perform various functionalities such as preparing course material and sending it to

administrator for checking it, preparing exam paper and sending it again for the administrator,
solving doubts raised by the student regarding the course, view announcements from the
administrator. Faculty also has mechanism to apply for leave online.
Scenario 4:
Name: Discussion Board
Description: Discussion board is the place where the students and the faculty members interact
together. Students place a doubt and either faculty or fellow student clarifies the doubts. All the
responses related to the doubt are maintained in a block and every time a new response is posted
a new thread is added.
Requirement Analysis:
Platform Specification:
Operating System: WINDOWS XP
Hardware Requirement:
PC with 2GB hard disk.
512 MB of RAM
Software Requirement:
FRONTEND: Java, JSP, Servlet
WEB TECHNOLOGIES: HTML and JavaScript
WEBSERVER: Tomcat 5.5
DATABASE: Oracle