Installing WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

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  1. Download WAMP from the following link. http://www.wampserver.com/en/ 
  2. It is an .exe file, simply double click it and give the path as C:/wamp or whatever directory you want,give it.
  3. Once installation is successful, an icon will be appearing at the bottom right task bar like this icon
  4. Click the icon, a menu will be opened, click “put online” (this is to enable access to apache to other machines), if your ip address is 192.167.3.4, then any other machine which is connected in your network will give this ip address to use wampserver
  5. Once you click the icon as specfied in Step 3, you will get the following menu
  6. wamo
  7. localhost –> to display the homepage of the wampserver
  8. phpMyAdmin –> it is to manage the MySQL through a GUI, you can create databases, tables within databases, update, insert, etc
  9. www directory is the place where you can put all your web application files. if your entire application is residing in a folder called as “pradeep”, then copy the pradeep/ to the www/ and the path to the pradeep/ is http://localhost/pradeep
  10. Apache – to configure apache (like change of port address, server path change, etc)
  11. PHP –> to configure PHP
  12. MySQL –> to configure and work with MySQL in command mode.
  13. http://localhost/ will display the following page
  14. wamp1
  15. http://localhost/moodle will display the following page
  16. MOODLE

E learning tools

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There are various tools available for providing the lecture notes as content, video lectures, audio lectures, etc. Some of the tools are open source and some are paid tools. Its up to an individual to select the tool either as open source or paid source.

This post list some of the tools that are needed for Elearning:

Moodle 

Name: Modular Object Oriented Distributed Learning Environment

Software's used: PHP, MySQL4.1

For deplolying moodle in any environment, need for a web server is mandatory. Better Apache server can be used.

There are packages like WAMP (windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) – This is for windows

and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) for Linux Operating System.

Moodle can be configured for the following apps

Scalable upto 50000 students of a University

Online Quiz Examination (Objective as well Descriptive)

Students Attendance Management System

Course Management

Drupal

Drupal is the very efficient tool for Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is a general purpose Content Management System which can be configured as elearning package with the help of various modules provided by the drupal software

Versions: Drupal 5, Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 (alpha) – Drupal 6 is used widely.

Software’s used: PHP, MySQL

Again here also WAMP or LAMP may be used to install Drupal.

Drupal can be configured for the following apps

Lecture notes posting on a regular basis

Student Assignment Submission

Student Project Management

Wordpress

Wordpress is the famous blogging platform for providing lecture notes on a regular basis and posted under various titles (tags).

Wordpress is given as a software package of not more than 2.5 MB, which will be installed on a web server particularly apache (WAMP or LAMP)

Software’s used: PHP, MySQL

The lecture notes can be posted on a regular basis (daily or weekly) and even the administrator of a domain can invite other authors to register and post.

The learners can able to read the notes(posts) and if any doubts, they can able to post queries in the commenting section which is also provided as part of the wordpress software.

Wordpress can be configured for the following

Lecture notes posting

Solving doubts through Commenting Section

Easily post the Audio/Video lectures

and not only the above the list goes on and on.

(NB: All the softwares above are free and open source. you can cusotmize as per your use and redistribute it)