Abstract:
Due to encompassing speed of Information and communication technologies (ICT)
and its advantages, most of the educational institutions utilizing ICTs for
communication and interaction among stakeholders. Lack of appropriate online
interaction platform was observed by most of teachers, students and us during the
four years of study here at Bahria University Lahore Campus (BULC). It was also
demand of visiting faculty members to have platform to communicate the students
remotely. Although most of the teachers and students are using different social media
channels at their own choice like WhatsApp, Facebook and Google groups etc. There
is a need of an effective web-based platform for effective synchronous and
asynchronous interaction and communication among these stakeholders. In our final
year project, we tried to develop Online University Interaction Platform (OUIP) for
BULC using incremental development methodology. It is based on PHP language
using WAMP Server as a local host for executing this platform. With the help of this
platform, students and teachers can exchange information asynchronously through
notifications and messages. Moreover, teacher can interact with students
synchronously through live chat, virtual classroom and discussion board. This
application will be useful for students, teachers and management of the campus.
We recommend integrating proposed platform with CMS of Bahria University as an
enhancement
