Whalesweb.com - Online Education Portal

WhalesWeb.com offers high quality Web-based Business English Courses for non-English speakers. This project involves developing a multi lingual (English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese) Web based Education Courses System for Kurdyla & Associates.

Kurdyla & Associates has been offering the same courses to clients in a classroom environment forover 30 years .

The site manages all the courses that are offered. this includes authorizing Clients/Students on the courses that they are allowed to take and tracking the student through the course. The Student is also graded on his performance. The site keeps track of students who are late in completing assignments or the course itself. The site has personalization features such as Calendar for scheduling events, reminders etc.

Features include

• My Pages for Admin, Client, Instructor and Student. the My Pages provide comprehensive details about the
  user and also provide statistics regarding the whole application that are related to the user.
  
• Course Management
  
• Client and Instructor Management - Clients and Instructors have My Pages that provide them with comprehensive
  statistics that show details about the students who are involved with them. the site also allows to track students
  who are late in submitting assignments / late in going through the course and also track instructors who are
  late in correcting assignments. Instructor is given facility to request for reassignment of his students and
  Admin is provided with tools to reassign an Instructor's students.
• Students Enrollment and Course Allocation
• A Complete Message Forum for Student Interaction
• Mailings - Mails are sent to users depending on various events. the site includes features to personalize
  the mails for each event.
• Search - A comprehensive search page allows for Administrators/ Client/ Instructors to search for
  Courses/Students concerning them. A lot of flexibility is offered in the search criteria.

Technology
The complete site is built on an Intel Platform with Solaris as the operating system running Tomcat Web Server v4.0 and MySQL v3.23.36 database. The business logic is encapsulated within JavaBeans and presented using JSP Scripts.