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E-learning With Virtual Classroom
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Problem Definition
With the ever-increasing popularity and accessibility of the Internet, it is only natural that the educational community should want to make use of this tremendous resource. Use of the Internet and Web are leading to significant changes in educational models.
“E-learning With Virtual Classroom” project aims at putting together an integrated e-Learning environment for a university student. This will mainly be used by distance education programs offered by institutes, in order to enable students to avail of the academic facilities from any computer connected to the internet. A streaming mode of operation which can be live or offline will be backed by a rich GUI that integrates Online Entrance Exam, Online Admissions, lectures, chatting, quizzing, forums, online submission and live interaction with the rest of the classroom making the user feel that they are part of a virtual classroom in the live mode.
Literature Survey
Before deciding scope for our project, we have studied many existing e-learning projects and virtual classrooms. This study helped us lot for knowing the various features of virtual classroom. HP, IBM Lotus, Elluminate Live, Sanako, Maxwell, Edulive, Blackboard virtual classrooms are some e-learning projects used worldwide. We have studied each virtual classroom and noticed some special features of them, that are listed as follows:
Features
The basic features that the user can see when they enter the HP Virtual Classroom can be listed as:
Hands-Up button displays names in the order of hands raised by the participants.
The Attendee List shows the names of all attendees.
Highlighting one or more names and then using the Private Chat button initiate Private Chat.
Similarly, Group Chat can be used to send messages to all attendees in the classroom.
Clicking the Stop Incoming Chat checkbox makes you unavailable for private chat messages.
The Offline checkbox turns an attendee’s name gray. This feature shows others in the room that this person is temporarily unavailable for participation in the event.
The Content button allows participants to view URL’s, uploaded files and other content in a separate pop-up window.
The Review button allows participants or presenters to review slides separate from the presentation. Presenter notes are also included in the review window.
Some of the tools that a participant may use can have a Print icon and save to Disk icon associated with it. Print icon allows the participant to print the content of the tool they are using. Save to Disk icon allows the participant to save to a file the content of the tool they are using.
To load a PowerPoint file into the room, Drag and drop files icon is used. The Option button changes to a status window and shows the status of the upload. By clicking the Options button size of presentation file can be changed.
. Common Features of virtual classroom
We can extract the following common features of Virtual classroom from the above systems studied:
Directing Messaging among participants or between presenter and participants is possible using chat feature in virtual classroom.
Audio and Video can be used in session. Using audio, presenter can deliver voice-based lectures in a classroom.
Shared whiteboard, are used by instructors and students to view images, presentations, or other application.