Project Report On Distance Learning System

CHAPTER 1

BY: Sheikh Abdul Momen Amit Sharma Sonal Ojha

CHAPTER 1
Introduction / Problem definition
Organization Profile Description of System under Study User Requirements. Need of New system. Objectives of the project. Methodology. Data Requirement & Data Collection.

Organization Profile:-

1. Company Profile: CMC Limited is a leading IT solutions company and a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS Ltd), one of the worlds leading information technology consulting, services and business process outsourcing organizations. It is a part of the Tata group, Indias best-known business conglomerate. With 18 offices, 150 service locations, 520 non-resident locations and over 3,800 employees, Information Technology solutions and services to worldwide, it provides a wide spectrum of unique a clientele of premier organizations in the government and private sectors. CMC Americas, its subsidiary, services clients in the US, while its branch offices in the UK and Dubai market its products and services in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Large and Complex Project Management Capabilities:

Since its incorporation in 1975, CMC has an enviable record of successfully building IT solutions for massive and complex infrastructure and market projects. Take, for instance, just three of the many major projects undertaken by it: A passenger ticketing and reservations system for Indian Railways, which runs 6,000 passenger trains carrying over 10 million passengers a day, on a 90,000-km railway network covering around 8,000 railway stations. A cargo handling system is a comprehensive online real time cargo handling system to integrate all complex and varied activities of container terminals. This system has been implemented for several Indian and International ports. An online transaction processing system for the Bombay Stock Exchange, which handles millions of securities trading transactions every day.

End-to-end Solutions Capability:

It manages turn key projects, and have built, managed and supported its customers IT systems across the value chain infrastructure, applications and business processes. That is because its capabilities span the entire IT spectrum: IT architecture; hardware; software (including systems and application software, development or implementation, maintenance, and frameworks); network consulting; and IT-enabled processing services. This is how it works: Our Customer Services (CS) unit designs and builds the IT infrastructure and network. Our Systems Integration (SI) unit develops applications and integrates them across diverse hardware and software platforms Our IT-Enabled Services (ITES) unit manages developed applications and digitization activities. Our Education and Training unit provides IT education and training to users.

Extensive Domain Expertise and Technological Competencies:

It has proven expertise in a wide array of applications, including real-time systems, online systems, embedded systems, process control, transaction processing, image processing, data communications, networking, parallel architectures, e-commerce technologies and e-governance applications. Its competitive edge comes from combining its technology competencies with its understanding of verticals, straddling a range of sectors from banking and insurance, power, mining and defense to education. Its high quality, high value IT solutions have helped reshape businesses and delivered measurable results to its customers. Sizable Resource Pool with Diverse Skill Sets:

It achieves this with the help of its resource pool of engineers trained in diverse technologies, with vast domain knowledge and varied skill sets. Of its 3,595 employees, over 21 per cent have more than ten years of work experience. It also has a large competency pool that works on emerging technologies and competency areas. It has an impeccable educational profile; as many as 30 per cent of our employees have postgraduate degrees.

It also conducts significant research into emerging technologies and competence areas at its state-of-the-art, ISO 9001-certified R&D centre in Hyderabad, India. That is what gives it an edge in complex, high technology projects. The Systems Integration Business Units all four regions are at Level 5 (optimizing level) of the SEIs Capability Maturity Model (software).

Strong Customer Relationships:

CMCs customer orientation and service culture lead to enduring bonds with clients. Its distinct value proposition and service culture, coupled with its track record of successful service delivery, are reflected in its long-standing customer relationships with dominant players in key infrastructure, services and government sectors. Its customers include some of the biggest organizations in India: Reserve Bank of India, Indian Railways, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, United Western Bank, Bank of India and Bank of Baroda. The trust reposed in it by its clients is reflected in its growing revenues from operations such as post-implementation maintenance and support activities.

Strong Service Delivery Chain:

In the domestic market, it has established an extensive services network penetrating the remotest geographical locations. This gives it an unmatched advantage in servicing customers with an allIndia presence, such as the railways, banks, government entities and other organizations with countrywide operations.

Growth Strategies:
CMCs growth strategy focuses on capitalizing on its unique skill sets and leveraging the synergies with TCS and other Tata group companies, for growth in revenue and profitability of its operations. It will continue to focus on consolidating its dominant position in India, while expanding its reach globally.

2. Corporate Citizenship:

CMC started life in 1975, taking over the maintenance of Indias IT installations. It rapidly diversified into other areas of IT, as its skills and experience developed. With a pool of more than 3,000 experts, CMC is today one of Indias foremost IT companies. It provides services like systems consultancy, hardware and software maintenance, systems integration and re-engineering, countrywide network services, education and training as well as offshore project development.

CMCs business is organized into four strategic business units (SBUs):

i) Customer services (CS): The customer services business unit handles the business-critical IT needs of large and medium corporate organizations. These include infrastructure development and management, networking management, storage, third-party maintenance, third party equipment supply and integration, networking consultancy, and environmental engineering. CMC holds the No.1 position in third party systems support. It caters to a wide range of systems, with several new business tie-ups and a vastly increased geographical spread. It has bagged the Techies award, instituted by a leading Indian IT publication, for being the best IT-maintenance company in the country.

ii) Systems integration (SI):

A leading systems integrator in India, CMC has consolidated its position in the domestic software market as well as in offshore turnkey projects. The systems integration SBU handles solutions deployment. This includes software development, software maintenance and support, turnkey project implementation and systems consultancy. A recent survey by a leading IT publication ranked CMC as Indias No.2 domestic software developer. Executing a very large number of infrastructure projects has consolidated its IT expertise in horizontal skills and its domain experience of vertical markets. This places it in an unassailable position in this area of IT. iii) IT enabled services (ITES):

The IT-enabled services (ITES) strategic business unit (SBU) aims at providing various services through the use of IT ranging from document management services, HR services, e-Governance services, electronic data interchange (EDI) and Collaborative services for corporates etc. iv) Education and training (E&T):

CMC has more than 250 IT-education franchisees and several collaborative training centers with renowned universities and institutes. It is also exploring the field of internet-based training. The SBU also plays a vital role in imparting quality IT education to corporate houses, institutions, central and state government departments, professional establishments and other clients, for whom CMC develops IT solutions. This is especially important in very large and complex projects. For CMC, education and training services is not merely a business area. It sees it as its commitment towards building Indias IT-personnel power base. It has also started franchising education and training overseas.

3. Services:
CMCs service offerings span the range of IT. It delivers end-to-end solutions that can build, manage and support its customers IT systems across the entire value chain infrastructure, applications and business processes. It also manages projects on a turnkey basis. The range of its offerings extends to hardware, software (including systems and application software development, implementation, maintenance and frameworks), IT architecture, network consulting and IT-enabled processing services. This depth, diversity and delivery capability ensures adaptability to client needs, bringing out the most innovative solutions in every business and technology domain. Its offerings are structured into 12 service practices: Data warehousing Education and training Event management Infrastructure development and management IT-enabled services Networking management and networking services Software design and development Systems and hardware consultancy Systems engineering and integration Systems study design and development Turnkey projects

4. Industry Practices:
CMC has an in-depth understanding and significant insights into the working of various industries, which it has consolidated into a leverageable knowledge base. Its domain expertise in these verticals enables it to provide innovative, customized and flexible technology solutions that address the entire range of an industrys business needs.

Its business knowledge is complemented by a wide spectrum of information technology skills. Its technological proficiency and service skills in these horizontals enables it to create IT solutions services and products across focused verticals. Together, they constitute its capability framework, which enables it to devise the most technologically advanced and cost-effective solutions in every business and technology domain.

The vertical arrows represent its verticals or domains; industries in which it has developed close customer involvement through a number of turnkey projects. The first horizontal arrow represents the range of services and solutions it offer across all verticals. The second horizontal arrow represents its core competencies in key technology areas.

System Under Study

www.iitmelearning.com has been developed keeping in mind an organizations need. the implementation of an distance-learning solution should contribute to the success of education, becoming an effective complement or alternative to prudential classes and should assure synchronous and asynchronous collaboration with application sharing

between students and teachers. The institution wants a solution based on technology that allows the expansibility of the functionalities, the assurance of the level of availability, the importation, Exportation and integration of information with other applications already developed. In order to embrace this new educational/training approach and to implement the elearning component of the Project we propose a flexible implementation process which is divided in the following great phases: 1. Registration Phase. 2. Examination Phase. 3. E-learning Phase. 4. Library Management Phase.

5. Administration Phase. 6. Students Processing Phase. we try to use distance learning system as a mean to seek and catch new audiences for the eLearning education, showing to the public what is taught in these institutions, being not just a mean of teaching but also a way of spreading and sharing information and knowledge.

User Requirements
Basically users of this system are the students and administrator of the organization. The requirements of the student and administrator are as follows: Only authorized students can access the facilities provided by www.iitmelearning.com. If any student forgets his/her password, then he/she can recover it online. If a student or administrator at some later stage wants to change his/her password then he/she can do so. Students can maintain track of issued books, their mark sheet, course and registration process. Student can choose his/her examination time and date accordingly. Students can interact or communicate with faculty each other without having to visit each other via video conferencing and Chatting application (E-Learning Phase). They can view daily or upgraded information regarding examination, course, results etc.

To save the chat history, facility of message archive is there. Administrator manages passwords and website information i.e. updating and modification of relevant information.

Google search engine should provide students to browse data and information via websites to brush up their knowledge.

Establish Need of New System / Advantages

Can be used as a method in its own right or as a basis for eLearning system. Can cover a large number of students online. Wide geographic coverage. Relatively cheap. No prior arrangements are needed. helps in proper student, examination and administration management.

Objectives of the Project

This project is an effort to give a platform to those students who are not unable to take admission in regular full-time courses due their own personal reasons. So this distance learning solution help them to upgrade themselves and to educate themselves. This project guide the students towards the right direction along with the adequate related Information & Study Material. Thus, enlightens their bright future. The main objective behind the development of this project is to reduce the Overhead on distance learning students to an extent. The project uncovers all the related Information along with required Study Material for the students. This enables them to clear their doubts and even queries, which lets them to move forward with their respective academic study. They can view their marks, results and help them in enrolling themselves for particular examination and course of their choice Thus, the project expects to uncover all the related queries and provide the students all the required, adequate & useful Information. Moreover, it will enhance the learning and Information acquiring capability of the students which will brighten their future.

The main Characteristics of the project are a follows: The project enables the students to retrieve related Information & Study Material from it. It also serves & lets the students to have loads of Information of their interest, so that they can have their queries solved.

It helps the student to get register themselves and taking examination online. It helps students in viewing their examination results as well as their course results.

It helps them in viewing e-books and downloadable content via Online Library. this project helps administrator to keep track of information, security issues ,faculty allotment etc.

It is available to all the students regardless of the quantity of students. It is also Secure as no Information can be edited which is embedded in the project.

It is also portable as many projects of this type are available for the students. It is the Best source to provide Distance Learning.

Methodology
Incremental ModelPhase Requirement VERIFY

Specification Phase
VERIFY

Architectural Design
VERIFY

For each build: Perform detailed design, implementation, integration, and test. Deliver to client

Maintenance Phase

Retirement

1. Requirements Phase: First, requirements are determined and checked by the client and the members of the SQA group. 2. Specification Phase: Here, the specification for the product is drawn up, i.e., a document is produced stating what the product is to do. The specifications are now checked by the SQA group and then shown to the client. Once the client signs off on the specification document, the next step follows. 3. Architectural Design: In this phase, the architecture of the entire software is designed. The entire system is broken down into a number of builds, where a build consists of code pieces from various modules interacting together to provide a specific functional capability. 4. Perform Detailed Design, Implementation and Integration, Test , Build: The product is designed, implemented, integrated, and tested as a series of incremental builds. Once the builds are decided for the system, each build is designed, the code is implemented integrated with the other executable builds and tested to check if the for Each

integrated modules work together or not. The developer is free to break the target product into builds as he sees fit, subject only to the constraint that as each build is integrated into the existing software, the resulting product must be testable. 5. Operations Mode: At each stage of the incremental model, a new build is coded and then integrated into the structure that is tested as a whole. The process stops when the product achieves the target functionality, i.e., when the product satisfies its specifications. After this, the product is given to the client, who puts the product into the operational mode, i.e., running mode, by installing it. He keeps on using the so far delivered product, while waiting for the others to be completed. This phase is also called the maintenance phase. 6. Retirement: When the product is no longer in a state of usage, due to wear and tear or obsolescence, then it enters into a state of retirement. At each phase of requirements, specification and designing, the corresponding documents are verified for completeness, compatibility as well as unambiguity.

Data Required
Following are the data required for the given modules:1. Registration: I. Course Selection II. Payment mode III. User-id and Password generation. 2. Examination: I. Online examination. II. Result 3. E-learning:

I. Video Conferencing II. Virtual discussion via chat application 4. Online Library: I. E-book section II. Downloadable Content. 5. Administration: I. User name/Password Re-generation II. Faculty Allotment III. Information uploading

6.

Student Processing: i. Semester wise / Consolidated Results ii. Reports. iii. Fees

Data Collection Method:Data is being analyzed from the internet only. We have tried to cover all the features of the administration, library, eLearning, registration and examination as available on the existing portals. But the entire data is being used on the basis of an organizations security needs.