eLearning/Online Teaching Platform Marketplace

Feasibility Study

In a discussion with the customer, there was a need of an automated platform that is to be used by high school students & teachers. Customer wanted to integrate functionalities like dashboard access to students & teachers, online chat option, online mock exams, online streaming of recorded video sessions etc. There was also a need for a pricing module/payment gateway integration that allows students to pay their respective fees through the platform only. The web app should offer a Dashboard for Students and Teachers that provides the niche summary to students and teachers for their activities.

Solution Applied

This application was developed as a teaching platform under eLearning domain. This is an online mentoring platform that connects high school students with caring and knowledgeable adults who help them prepare for college, career, and life. This platform currently provides invite-based access for select partners and users to test drive. This application has users as students, expert teachers along with back admin to control complete ecosystem of this website. The teachers can set their date/time based availability in slots and the same can be seen by students for various course/lessons. The students can send request to book a meeting for a tutorial session. A payment gateway is also implemented that allow students to pay fees after availing a limited free service. The online meeting held via video call session that can also be watched later. There is a dashboard access to every user as per their role. Online chat functionality is also added to help students & teachers remain connected. Following are the features of our developed project:

• Email/password registration/sign in with two factor authentication
• Social media sign up/sign in with Facebook and Google integration
• Dashboard for Students and Teachers
• Email messaging using SendGrid
• Chat and one to one Video sessions using Twilio
• Push notifications using FCM
• Online booking for appointment/meetings
• Can reschedule their booked meetings with a quick notification process to either party
• Automated scheduling for meetings with Cron scheduler implementation
• Online streaming of recorded video sessions
• Online mock exams
• History of meetings and upcoming meetings with respective details
• User account and subscription plan management along with Drupal LMS/CMS handling by back end admin to push training/teaching content