Design and implementation of a distance educational system

Abstract

Many universities throughout the world explore the possibilities of on-line delivery of educational programs. These developments have a great potential on the transition from the traditional hto-face education process to the distance education programs which become one of the rapidly growing complltillgapproack.In this paper, we developed a distance educational system namely, WebCAT, that provides many capabilities and tools for both student and instructor. It allows the insbucto r to build a 111 online course including material sylIabus, schedule, dances, links, exams, automatic grading and ways to follow up the performance of students throughout a d charts. Finally a comparsion with existing broadly accepted systems, such as WebCT, shows that our system is comparable with it.