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Case Study

Education Publishing and Management System

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Client required developing an online publishing tool, which can be used by central administrators,
school coordinators, individual teachers, and students. The main objective to create this website
was to centralize the school administration across the globe and enable its smooth functioning.
The project consists of five levels of access: Admin, Classroom teacher, coordinator, teacher and
students. Some important features included are as follows:

Using ADOBE FLEX as a tool that enables students to create project pages
Creating an admin panel to manage schools and coordinators
Creating an internal messaging system to enable communication between central
administrator, coordinators, teachers and students
Allowing students to create and manage their own avatars
Facilitating export of school excel sheets
Integrating a book-making application
Creating a Project Wizard
Generating PDF for final project
Exporting search list to PDF
Including Coppa functionality to inform about students progress to parents
Parents can receive/reply/compose a mail and can review students progress in the
project

Client Requirement
Project Challenges
Some of the challenges faced during the project are as follows:
Integrating Adobe FLEX with .NET Framework
Generating PDF files
Creating an Auto-run application, which runs after a specified time to generate PDFs
for completed projects
Creating a Project Wizard is a heart of the system

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Technologies Used













Manpower













.NET Framework

.Net framework allows language interoperability and offers common
language runtime engine (CLR). Allows managing database
relationship.
SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational model database server
produced by Microsoft. Its primary query languages are T-SQL and
ANSI SQL.
Adobe Flex Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building
expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major
browsers, desktops, and operating systems.
Windows server 2008 It delivers powerful functionality that adds real value by simplifying
business operations and improving efficiency.
Tools Photoshop and SVN

Project Leader

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Developers

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Designers

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Quality Assurance Testers

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Planning

The Project comprises the following five phases:


Phase 1: RequirementsGathering & Analysis.
Phase 2: Development Server SetupDevelopment server done with proper installation
of required software.
Phase 3: Web ApplicationFormation of a new web application using central
administration.
Phase 4: Development of various modules with proper access and customization of a
webpart.
Phase 5 - Production Server Setup - Production Sever done with proper installation of
required application.


Architecture


Keeping in mind the structure of the website and the challenges involved, n-tier
architecture was adopted with all the layers loosely coupled with each other, as follows:

Presentation Specific Layer: This includes the page level layer which will be
accessing the other layers beneath to present the data.

Business Specific Layer: This act as a bridge between the presentation layer and
data base layer. This will contain all the business logic for the different components
involved in the project.

Database Specific Layer: This acts as a bridge between the physical database and
the business logic accessing the data.

Physical Database Layer: SQL SERVER 2008 with the tables, view and stored
procedures etc.













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Development Highlights


Privacy and security of the content was given utmost importance. Use of database dumping
architecture played a vital role in the project. Stored procedures were used to handle
complex queries and data retrieval from various tables. Optimized query features offered
comprehensive search & browse options. Code review was performed every month to make
sure the proper functioning of the system. Constant updates were sent to client for them to
keep track of the project progress. Every required change was catered to, for complete
client satisfaction. The entire framework was kept highly scalable in order to provide
quicker transition to market needs for incorporating new features. Web usability guidelines
were strictly followed during development and the interface was made easily navigable
through judicious use of CSS and HTML controls. The site was developed and fully
functional within a span of 9 months.