Online Learning Platform Features
User Management:
- User registration and authentication.
- User management which allows them to change contact information(username, email and password) as well.
- Different roles should be assigned to users (like a student and a teacher) and permissions for each role need to be set.
Course Management:
- Instructors would have the flexibility to design courses and make them accessible.
- The search/filtering option is available on the course level for the users.
- Registration management, enables the users to enroll and start using the learning management system.
- Course progress tracking can be undertaken for the enrolled users.
Content Management:
- Apart from its hosting, uploading and the management of the distinguishable types of content such the files [instruction], audio or the video audiovisual content, for every course.
- Providing instructional materials in a modular or sectional format suitable for self-paced and structured learning.
Assessment and Evaluation:
- Instructor’s Tasks Related with Quizzes: Creating and Managing them.
- Automatic reviewing of the quizzes and a quick response to the students after they have taken quizzes.
- Feedback to students in the form of scores after evaluation and completion of quiz exercise.
Progress Tracking and Reporting:
- Letting users keep track of their courses’ enrollment status and completion, and display of score for quiz via the progress dashboards to them.
- The educational apps should be able to produce reports for teachers which should include the student’s performance and engagement metrics.
Payment and Subscription:
- Integration with payment gateways that allows courses to be purchased and subscription plans to be handled.
- Consumer payment and transaction management are the key elements that include consumer payment history history tracking.
How to Design a Database for Online Learning Platform
Today, in the age of digital technology, learning has taken another shape by presenting learning materials to students via online platforms for covering educational content among students. Correspondingly, a well-designed relational database that guarantees smooth compliance and consolidation of data management is significant. In this article, we will learn about how important the database structure and steps to build a database according to the requirements of an online learning platform with the help of entities, attributes, and relationships between them.