Project Proposal

HCI Paired Project Proposal

1.      Group Members

ID	Full Name	Email	Phone	Batch 4th/3rd year
IT13014100	K.S.Amaraweera	amaraweerasaranga@gmail.com	0719646534	3rd year
IT13007348	K.M.C.B.Kendaragama	chamarakendaragama@gmail.com	0715242915	3rd year

2.      Topic

moodle.schoolnet.lk, e-learning, web

3.      Introduction

For the HCI pair group project we selected schoolnet.lk, a leading e-learning website currently being managed through the Ministry of Education and EKSP. Schoolnet provides a wide area of educational resources and benefits to all the government school students in Sri Lanka. Despite the success of this e-learning website, still there are some areas to be concerned from the user’s point of view.

4.      List of Features.

Member Registration/Login to get access to course content

News Center to get latest updates of the website

List of currently logged in users to show how many users are online

Course categories

Course content

Search bar to search resources

Events calendar

Multi-lingual platform

5.      Users

Students, Teachers

6.      Platform

      HTML, JavaScript, PHP

  

8.      Features to be Improved

·         A drop down menu list to browse the course categories and the sub categories can be added so that students can easily browse the content of the website.

·         Website heading should be named properly as “Schoolnet” instead of having default moodle logo.

·         Search box should be placed on top right corner rather than having it at the bottom.  

·         The important notices and news should be pointed out properly with a JavaScript gad at the top of the front page.

·         Use of more color combinations, pictures slideshows

·         A student community forum can be added so that students can share their thoughts

·         A feedback bar would be an additional advantage so that the administrators can get the reviews of the users

·         Adding a video bar could be an additional advantage so that both students and teachers can learn in a much realistic way

·         Login panel should be developed more (use of profile image)

·         A list of social share buttons widget can be more useful to share the content via the social networks

·         A Contact Form and About page at the bottom of the site can be more useful instead of the larger content currently being added at the right of the layout

·         Making it easy for visitors to subscribe email delivery when publishing new posts/articles by adding a “follow by email” gadget

·         A separate gadget for all downloads could be more useful so that the students can easily navigate to the downloads

·         A privacy policy term and copyrights statement can be added to state the permission and rights of the website at the bottom

·         A separate link to upload student documents submissions to the website