University of Houston
Department of Computer Science
In
partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master
of Science
Doris Duan
will
define her thesis
eClass: A
Web-based Course Management Application
The eClass
application is designed to be a secure, easy to maintain, platform independent
and portable application that handles the homework submit and homework program
test for students who take Internet related computer classes. The
purpose of this application is to provide a tool for both the professor and the
student to view and run the submitted homework files online. The advantage of
this tool is that it supports most of the major web programming languages. It
relieves the student from the trouble of configuring his/her own machine to run
web applications written in different web languages, such as HTML, VBScript, JavaScript and JScript,
XML, Java, and Perl.
The major
functionalities of this tool can be divided into two parts: professor
activities and student activities. The professor can
approve class students, issue assignments, collect and run submitted homework
files; the student, upon the professor’s approval, can get the class
assignment, submit homework files and run the homework files.
The programming languages of this tool are
JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, ADO/ActiveX, and Visual Basic. The back end is SQL
database. This application adopts the popular 3-tier architecture of web
applications.
Date:
Friday, April 12, 2002
Time:
11:00 AM
Place:
550-PGH
Faculty,
students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang