Design of a distance education system

The authors started with a simple set of requirements to design and implement a distance education system as part of a masters thesis. In this paper, they present the conceptual framework of their approach. Their initial requirements were as follows: the student should: (a) select department and the course; (b) see the information on any course selected; (c) login to enter a selected course; (d) login from the Web; (e) should be validated; (f) should then be able to see content and the submissions; (g) be able to see notes, articles, audio and video; (h) be able to see exams, exercises and projects; and (i) have his/her professor able to see what the student sees.