A virtual classroom teaching environment using a lightboard

Abstract

This project is to create a Virtual Classroom teaching environment using a light board. Virtual classroom is an alternative way to attend classes rather than physical classes. The Virtual Classroom is a collaborative teaching tool to assist the students to learn in an interactive manner. It aims to complement the efforts of teachers to integrate technology into their classrooms and link the students to the Internet in educationally productive ways and provide them a stimulating, positive and enjoyable environment to study. The virtual classroom consists of multi-features such as a lightboard to enhance the live video classes, log in and register button, chatroom, download or-upload learning materials/ assignments. Nowadays, there are many students who may want to attend a course that probably is not available in their own country or states. Not only the students, this situation may occur among the lecturers especially the international lecturers. They are facing obstacles which involves costs and time, a virtual classroom is. a brilliant idea to overcome this problem. The objective of this project. is to create an alternative way to attend classes. Other than that, the virtual classroom is built as an interactive teaching tool which involves administrators, lecturers and students. As it is an online web application, the virtual classroom can provide an. online learning experience to registered students. This project will be using HTML, CSS' and JavaScript to design interfaces and features of the virtual classroom, Wampserver to develop the databases of student’s information and PHP for server-side programming.