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Brief Requirements Specification: Online Education Portal
Background: I own an expanding UK-based company which provides online English teaching services to companies
and individuals in Russia.
Objective: To hire and properly monitor a team of English teachers in the UK, ensure student/teacher loyalty and cope
with an expanding client base.
Maximum Load: 20 teachers, 200 students, 10 classes conducted simultaneously.
Current website: www.englishinrussia.ru
Site concept: Online education portal for Russian learners of English.
Competitors: http://www.englishdom.com, http://www.english-natali.ru
Features to be added:
1) Stand-alone server software in addition to the existing webserver.
Platform is subject to discussion
Its URL can be different from main website
Russian language support is a must
Database
2) On-site web-conferencing system similar to Skype, but simpler. This is an essential element of the site to
guarantee control of the teaching process and to maintain teacher/student loyalty.
Ability to save information about classes: teacher, student, topic, start/end date and time, mark, comment
Two-way video stream
Quality audio
Text chat
Screen share
Whiteboard functionality
Option of recording lessons
3) Back office for registered students.
Login
Real-time updated student timetables
Teacher availability timetables
Payment system
Lesson booking and links to payment system
Teacher profiles with samples from lessons (embedded video, audio)
Internal messaging system for sending homework and questions/answers between students and teachers
with the option of attaching files.
4) Payment system. Payment for lessons and courses online (similar to this:
http://www.englishdom.com/en/cost).
5) Online test functionality. Interactive exercises in the form of multiple choice questions (similar to this:
http://cliomsk.com/on-line-test). This should be created as a customisable template, which can be used to
create other interactive exercises by study topic.
6) Reports.
Ability to monitor who is currently online, who is in the virtual classrooms.
Recorded lessons with start date/time and duration
