Online learning education Liferay portal system

 

Client Overview
The client, located in the United State, is a company who provides online education. The client has entered the online education market since 2006 and provided their products and services to global customers online. Online education gives you the knowledge and training you need to move your career forward. Online students do not have to quit their full-time jobs while visiting e-schools and they are able to gain degrees and invaluable work experience simultaneously.

 

Project Overview
The project targets an e-teaching and e-learning system which allows users to share and learn knowledge online. The feature of the online education system includes registration, tutor account, student account, online exam, payment, etc.

Online education is characterized by the following terms:

	1.	The separation of tutors and learners which distinguishes it from face-to-face education
	2.	The influence of an educational organization which distinguishes it from self-study and private tutoring
	3.	The use of a computer network to present or distribute some educational content
	4.	The provision of two-way communication via a computer network so that students may benefit from communication with each other, tutors and staff

Solutions

Liferay Portal
Liferay Portal is the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, offering integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture (SOA) to facilitate application integration, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructures. It is an integration portal with Struts, Spring, and Hibernate, and it has very strong expansibility and robustness.

Runs on any Java EE major app server & servlet container and all major databases, and operating systems (over 700 deployment combinations):

	1.	Out-of-the-box usability —choose from over 60 portlets
	2.	Out-of-the-box development tools
	3.	Built in Content Management System (CMS) and Collaboration Suite
	4.	Award winning AJAX enabled user interface
	5.	Localized to 22 languages, out-of-the-box
	6.	Full LDAP synchronization
	7.	Benchmarked as among the most secure portal platforms using LogicLibrary's Logiscan suite
	8.	Business-friendly MIT License

Liferay Journal
Liferay Journal is Liferay Portal's built-in Content Management System (CMS) delivers portal-based web publishing and document management.

	1.	Web publishing with publishing workflow, versioning, structured content, XSL and Velocity templates, and easy-to-use text editor
	2.	Portal publishing and staging
	3.	Separation of content from layout
	4.	Document library with multiple file uploader and file format converter, bookmarks, image gallery
	5.	Roles-based permission and workflow

Liferay Collaboration Suite
Take advantage of a virtualized work environment with Liferay’s built in Collaboration Suite.

	1.	Gain access to mail, personal/group calendars, enterprise IM, blogs, message boards, wikis, RSS, and more.
	2.	Transfer your calendar and user information via Web 2.0 standards.
	3.	Use tagging with Liferay’s CMS portlets to dynamically share important or interesting content with other portal users.

 

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