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Online Student Learning Portal and Course Management System

Neev helped revamp an online Learning Management System that provided a stand-aloneinterface between students and tutors. Neev introduced new features and enhancements tomodernize the system while meeting an aggressive delivery timeline.The LMS system informed students about the schedule of classes and tests, attendance,announcements and test scores and also allowed them to take tests online. It enabled tutorsto manage announcements, schedule classes and tests, administer tests online and keep a tabon students performance and attendance.

The Client

PurpleLeap, an ISO 9001:2008 company and a Pearson-Educomp JV company, enableseducational institutions to produce high quality talent while connecting students to theindustry through innovative solutions backed by cutting-edge technology.

PurpleLeap partners with colleges all over the country to provide industry engagementplatforms, Global technology Partnerships, learning programs, placements and state of theart infrastructure like VSAT-enabled multimedia classrooms, learning and KnowledgeManagement Systems, Assessment Platform and Student Learning Portal that enable theprofessional and comprehensive development of students. Purple Leap has partnered withover 150 B-schools and Engineering colleges in over 14 states in India and works with over 300corporates. It has trained more than 10000 students in last three years.

Business Need

PurpleLeap required a revamp of their existing LMS system that was bootstrapped into placeby an internal team. The system lacked a good user interface and many critical features.

PurpleLeap required a comprehensive online portal that provided the requisite and criticalinformation to students and tutors to keep a tab on attendance, schedule of classes and tests,announcements, test scores, and also enable online test taking.

Neev Solution

Neev developed an online portal for PurpleLeap that provided students and tutors secure,role based access to the system.

Once logged in, the students were provided a dashboard with information like class and testschedule, attendance and test score, announcements among others. The system provided ato-do list for students to keep a tab on their assignments.

Purple Leap training activities included training schedules, trainers activities, maintainingquestion banks, generating assignments, question papers, online test for students etc. Thesystem provided trainers with information like test scores to monitor students performanceand attendance status. It also enabled trainers to administer tests online, inform studentsabout schedule of classes and tests. Neev also built an SMS-based messaging system thatenabled tutors to send SMS alerts to students.

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All PurpleLeap client companies could search for PurpleLeap students based on definedcriteria and download student details and resumes from the portal. Students placementhistory and PurpleLeap certification history was also maintained through this portal.

Neev used a MVC design pattern on Drupal to implement the LMS and completely redesignedthe UI/UX of the application.

Technology footprint:

Drupal 6 Java/J2EE Struts MVC JSP HTML, Javascript

Apache Tomcat MySQL jQuery, jQuery plugins - Modal Dialog, jQGrid PHP Plugins used for integration with SMS gateway YSLOW Firebug

Top features:

1. Text based chat between students and teachers.2. Page Load time less than 3 seconds. Usage of tools like YSLOW, Firebug to identify and

fix page loads that were slow.3. Major Improvement in the UI/UX of the application

Top Challenges:

1. Existing code had to be refactored2. Several pages required full page refreshes3. Team had to study and understand the application independently since very little

documentation was available.