IeL Com – an integrated module for communication in E-learning [articol]

Abstract

IeL Com is a module of the integrated environment for educational activities management IeL. This module, developed by us, permits students, professors, tutors and administrators to communicate each other using a chat-whiteboard application. The application permits a group of persons to draw together, on a shared table, using the client application that runs on a computer connected in a network. Application puts at command users a set of graphic and textual objects that could be used to realize graphic objects. Participants can communicate through text box (chat) using a dedicated zone in the window. Users can be students and tutors involved in the virtual university managed by IeL environment. There is necessary the authentication of the users, this will have access only to those chat rooms in which he is involved. He can also have more than one chat or whiteboard open window, one for each user involved in the session. IeL Com is a client-server application developed using the C# technology. Due the utilization of the technology specialized for the development distributed applications (.Net Remoting), that permits appeal of the object methods located on server as these objects find out on local client, we could use OOP (Object Oriented Programming) concepts and architectures like polymorphism, listener concept or view-control architecture.