The project is a group project, and each group should consist of three to five students. You may choose one of the following projects, and note that each project has its own requirements.

[Projects]

1. CSNS - Admin Interface

This project will implement some administration functionalities for CSNS. The basic features include

• Add, edit, search, enable/disable users
• Send email to users
• Add and edit courses and sections

• Ajax UI controls
• Compose and store course journals
• Proper access control for various roles

2. CSNS - Survey Module

This project will implement a survey module for CSNS. For basic features, implement a survey builder that allows an administrator user to create a survey that consists of the following types of questions:

• Single-Choice Questions. A single-choice question consists of a question statement and a number of choices, and a user may choose only one of the choices as the answer.
• Multiple-Choice Questions. A multiple-choice question is similar to a single-choice question, except that a user may choose more than one choice.
• Single-Answer Questions. A single-answer question requires a user to write a short answer, which may be a sentence or a short paragraph. Note that unlike for single-choice questions, the user must write up the answer instead of choosing it from a set of given choices.
• Multiple-Answer Questions. A multiple-answer question is similar to a single-answer question, except that a user may give multiple answers.
• Rating Questions. A rating question lets a user to choose an integer number between a minimal rating and a maximal rating, both of which are also integers. Note that although rating questions seem to be similar to single-choice questions, you may have to handle them differently, because the answers to rating questions need to be treated as numerical values in order to allow operations such as calculating average ratings.

For advanced features, let the users take the created surveys and collect the results.

3. CSNS - Forum Module

This project will implement a forum module for CSNS. The forum module should have most of the functionalities provided by a standalone forum application like phpBB, as well as some CSNS-specific features. In particular, the basic features include:

• One forum for each course, and whenever a new course is added, a new forum is automatically created.
• Create forums that are not associated with a course, e.g. "Announcements" or "General Discussion" forum.
• Basic forum functionalities such as creating topics and replying to topics.
• Use a rich text editor
• A user may subscribe to a forum, in which case whenever a post is made in that forum, the user receives an email notification.
• The instructor and the students in a class are automatically subscribed to the class forum. Of course, they may unsubscribe from the forum, or subscribe to other class forums.
• Full text search

and for advanced features include one or two of the following::

• Allow file attachments in posts
• Ajax UI controls
• RSS feeds
• Web services

4. Choose Your Own Project

You may choose your own project, using any programming language and software/hardware platform you are familiar with, as long as the project implements all the basic features listed below:

• Database access
• Authentication and authorization of different types of users
• File uploading
• Email
• Full-text search
• RSS feeds

as well as two to three advanced features such as:

• SOAP web services
• AJAX  UI enhancements
• Location-based service using Google or Yahoo! Maps API
• Recommendation system based on user preference and profiling
• Pluggable authentication modules (both database and LDAP)
• Comprehensive performance study

[Requirements]

• All projects must use a source version control system.
• All CSNS projects must follow existing directory structures and coding conventions.
• All basic features must be completed by the end of Week 7 (November 11)
• All advanced features must be completed by the end of Week 10 (December 3)

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