Sample Projects & Case Studies: Education and E-learning

The Client had a goal to develop new software system aimed to address day-to-day needs of child-care organizations, their employees and relatives of children they serve. The system was built from scratch on top of MS .NET Platform; detailed technical requirements were developed by Arcadia in co-operation with the Client. Typical deployment is to serve about 250 child-care organizations with 25 000 employees, 37 000 children and 180 000 children relatives.

Technologies & tools: MS .NET, MS SQL Server, MS Windows Server, MS IIS, MS Windows Indexing & Search Service, NHibernate, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MS Visual Studio, TestTrack Pro, Subversion

Custom development of a collaboration portal on .NET platform, system analysis | Web applications | Education & e-learning | Online collaboration tools

A school management system managing all aspects of school life: financials, scheduling, school tasks, grades, etc. According to the client's request, the system was created as a desktop application providing data exchange with the server for all users (teachers presparing for classes, students doing hometasks, administrators) not only from school but also from home computers through desktop interface.

Technologies & tools: MS Windows, C#, MySQL, Crystal Reports, InstallShield, Adobe Reader, Agilix InfiNotes, Infragistics NetAdvantage

Custom software development | Desktop applications | Education & e-learning | Online collaboration tools

The Client maintained a huge web-based learning service supporting almost entire learning process for teachers and students. The new mobile project was intended to give the students possibility to read their learning mail, download materials, get and execute basic types of tasks and do other important operations from their mobile phones.

Technologies & tools: MS Visual Studio 2005, EMS Manager, FxCop, ASP.NET Mobile, C# .NET, MySQL

Custom development and enhancement | Mobile applications | Education & e-learning | SaaS | Distance education

Project tasks included (1) development of a new version of the testing tool (part of Virtual Learning Environment) allowing to create more flexible and complicated instruments to assess knowledge and learning results of students, and, therefore, get better learning process feedback; (2) migration of existing data to new formats.

Technologies & tools: MS Windows XP/2003, MySQL, MS IIS, .NET Framework, Adobe Flash Player, MS Visual Studio .NET TestTrack Pro

Implementation of new functionality to the existing web application, data migration | Web applications | .NET | Education & e-learning

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), used by millions users, is contantly evolving. Thus it needs additional features to be implemented regularly.

Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, MS Windows Server Platform, C#, С/C++, JavaScript, Transact-SQL, MySQL, XML/XSLT, ASP.NET WebForms, AJAX, CSS, DHTML, jQuery, Flash, Cloud e-mail (Google and Microsoft), Exalead Enterprise Search, COM/DCOM, MSXML, MSMQ, LDAP, ADO.NET, LINQ, WCF, XML Web Services, jQuery UI, MS Visual Studio, MS TFS, ReSharper, CodeSmith Code Generator for .NET, MSUnit, Rally, MS Team Build, Accept 360

Software re-engineering, implementation of new functionality, data transferring | Web applications | .NET | Education & e-learning | Online collaboration tools | SaaS