A software application used for the purpose of supervision, record keeping, tracing, broadcasting and delivery in education programs is known as Learning Management System (LMS). LMS products and software are known to improve the electronic assignments, deliver it with an exceptional scope and flexibility that can be used for a longer duration. Most of the LMS are web-based that are built on Java, or a server side scripting tool PHP (PHP: Hypertext Processor) and uses SQL as a database. LMS provides a number of useful features such as communication between students using forums, emails and instant messaging, more activities and resources, online grading, and design and publication of the course schedule.
LMS allows including the features that are important, and these features can determine whether they are a part of standard implementation or are offered at cost (Lindenberg, 7). The search feature searches all learner usable items such as resources, courses, and packages, and the search results are displayed similarly to that of a search engine. The reporting capability feature displays the real-time reports, creates a control panel with excellent graphical interface support, and has an option to email the reports to the user. The important feature of LMS is the security capability that provides a unique user id and password to securely login into the portal. Single sign-on capability allows the user to access various portals in LMS. The systems are automated to help the users in case the password to login is forgotten. These security settings can be configured to provide a strong password and secure authentication.
Saving data to a safe and secure location on the web that can be accessed from any computer connected to internet is called cloud storage. Large network of cloud servers provide virtual storage solutions that manage and organize files along with the storage space. Students and others often use flash drives and cloud storage to back up homework and important papers (O’Leary L & O’Leary T, 190). Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider is known to be the chief creator of cloud storage in 1960s. He made brochures and notes about the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPAnet) and marketed them. He called his research intergalactic computer network and created the basics for cloud storage. Cloud storage is the most important feature of cloud computing, and after decades of research and development this storage method is gaining popularity in all product and service based organizations.
As a general rule, the advantages of cloud storage present a more compelling case for small organizations than for larger ones (Sosinsky, 18). Cloud storage offers more flexibility than storing data to the hard drive or USB stick; the backups can be retrieved globally from anywhere. Video streaming is one of the technologies that benefits greatly from deployment in the cloud (Sosinsky, 412). The cloud storage service providers may charge a huge amount if the backup data is too large. Reliability is a major concern in cloud storage as a major crash on the system may turn into losses for the customers. Storing on the cloud is a stateless system as the internet is general (Sosinsky, 18).
Cloud storage at AOU would help me store my academic files and records, so that I have access to on-demand, with secure authentication and minimal management. This stretched out; device-neutral access to data allows me to use information efficiently.
The three types of e-commerce are Business-to-Business (B2B), which involves selling a product or service from one business to another, for example, furniture manufacturer. Business-to-Consumer (B2C) involves selling a product or service from a business to a consumer; example, online banking, and the third type is Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) that involves the sale of a product from an individual to another individual through auctions, for example, ebay.com. Payments in ecommerce are secured by setting up strong passwords; web pages that accept passwords like a credit card number are often encrypted (O’Leary L & O’Leary T, 259).
The design principles that can be used to enhance the user interface usability are handwriting recognition that converts handwritten notes into a method that can be processed by the system, cutting-edge searching capabilities to find all content, files and folders in the system, and a start screen that displays the system applications as tiles.
Operating system acts as an interface between the user and the computer system as the operating systems are programs; a sequence of instructions that direct the computer to perform different tasks and are stored as files on the computer (O’Leary L & O’Leary T, 123). These manage the workstation resources and run applications.
Android Operating system was developed by Android Inc. that was later acquired by
Google. Android is based on Linux and GNU software (Sosinsky, 432). iOS on the other hand is developed by Apple and it is based on the Mac OS.
Input devices are hardware used to transform words, audio, pictures, and actions that people understand into a form that the system unit can process, for example, Keyboard (O’Leary L & O’Leary T, 176). Output devices translate signs and codes from the system unit into words, pictures, and sounds that persons can comprehend, example, Display Monitor. Two examples of devices which combine input and output devices are the Facsimile (FAX) Transmission Machines, and IP Telephony (Internet Telephone).
Hard disk performance can be improved by running the disk cleanup utility that eliminates unnecessary files and frees up space. Defragmenting the disk using disk defragmenter removes unessential fragments and reorganizes the files and idle disk space.
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