1. Slides by METID eLene Kick Off meeting: Online Courses Platform Overall architecture, main areas and services Nice, 27th and 28th January 2005

2. 2/10 Online Courses Platform: overview LCMS Learning Content Management System Support for –Face to face teaching –Full online learning activities Platform entirely developed by METID (Java technology) Used in different projects –Corsi On Line (Politecnico di Milano) –MathOnLine –VIMIMS (European Project) –e-design –…

3. 3/10 Online Courses Platform: architecture Public Site Home loginlogin Personal area Course catalogue Community services Content Area (LO) forum blackboardchat agenda Course A contents Collaboration tracking

4. 4/10 Online Courses Platform: key features Global and Class communities –Collaborative tools available with different scopes (at global community level and inside single courses) Asynchronous tools –Forum –Blackboard –Agenda –Shared contents –Quizzes Synchronous tools –Integration with external software such as CentraOne Symposium or Macromedia Breeze Live Contents –Support for standard and non-standard contents (program to reach SCORM 1.2) –Content creation through internal online web editor or uploading external created contents

5. 5/10 Online Courses Platform: key features Security –Username / password access –Optionally authentication with external mechanisms –Contents and services delivered only to authenticated users –https protocol with SSL 128 bit Statistical information on CorsiOnLine –supports more than 700 courses –more than 25.000 students profiled –5.000 average visits per day –more than 2.300.000 visits in 2 years

6. 6/10 Online Courses Platform: technical information Developed with standard J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) –Uses JSP (Java Server Pages) and Servlet Application Server TomCat 5.0 (open source) –Works also on every other J2EE compliant application server Database: SQL Server –Works also on MySQL (open source) and Access (not for production) Web site access: Internet Information Server –Works also with Apache (open source)

7. 7/10 Online Courses Platform: navigation CorsiOnLine ver. 3.0 –http://corsi.metid.polimi.ithttp://corsi.metid.polimi.it –Username: elene Password: elene MathOnline –http://www.mathonline.ithttp://www.mathonline.it E-design