Group 6
Jackson Chan
Wei Wei Wang
Victor Ho
Stanley Yue
Lisa Kang
Helen Zhang
Proposal Theme:
Real-time on-line tutoring for Berkeley classes
Major Features:
- A web site that brings Berkeley students and tutors together by providing real-time tutoring sessions.
- Tutors communicate with students by real-time chat/messaging and whiteboard
- 2 types of tutoring: group session and one to one private session
- Students can join on-going tutoring group sessions on a first come first serve basis
- Students can join a one to one tutoring by first making an appointment with a specific tutor
- The website is categorized first by departments, classes, and then tutors.
- Appointments can be made through a class-tutor scheduler.
- The website supports search functionality in time and tutor.
- User login authentication and user profile.
Different privileges for tutors and students:
- Tutors have the privilege of creating tutoring events and setting the events restrictions
- Students are limited only to sign up for events created by tutors
- Email notification to registered users on special events related to their profile
- Logs of the tutoring sessions can be saved in the server for future users download in printable forms
- Chat/IM interface allows document transfer between users
Tools and SW/HW packages to be used:
- Apache web server running on Linux SMP 550Mhz Pentium III machine
- Java Servlet support for the web server
- MySQL RDBMS system
- JDBC access on all database access
- Sun Linux JDK 1.2.2 and 1.1.8 /JRE
- JavaScript
- HTML
- Dreamweaver 3.0 on Windows NT
- Visual Café on Windows NT
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