Remote education system and library

Customer: SEE «Command-Engineering Institute» MES, Belarus Software type: website Software subtype: the system of remote education Efforts: 7 man-months Technologies used: PHP 5.0, MySQL Remote Education System (RES) in the MES system was created in order to train part-time cadets between sessions; train full-time cadets in the classroom and in leisure time (the study of library materials and delivery of tests for self-checking); and improve professional skills of employees. The system includes the distribution of students by faculty, specialities, specializations, courses, groups, and division of disciplines – by sections and themes. For each discipline, section or theme educational materials and control tests and tests for self-checking are added. The developed product has an advanced system for tracking and statistics collection of activities of different user groups: non-registered users, students, practitioners (teachers) and administrators. One of the system elements is the library module storing electronic documents text versions with a possibility to search (taking into account an auto selection of cases) by cards of the library account and distinction of access between categories of users of the system. The Command-Engineering Institute and other educational institutions of Belarus and bodies of the Ministry of Emergency Situations make good use of RES in the above-mentioned objectives until today.