Requirements Specification
for the eClass Project
Version 0.1
6 October 2006

Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Problem Statement
  • 1.2. System Personnel
  • 1.3. Operational Setting
  • 1.4. Impacts
  • 1.5. Related Systems
    • 1.5.1 Microsoft Powerpoint
    • 1.5.2 Classroom Presenter
    • 1.5.3 Elluminate
    • 1.5.4 Hitachi Starboard Software Suite
    • 1.5.5 Microsoft OneNote
    • 1.5.6 Interwrite Interactive Classroom
    • 1.5.7 Lotus Sametime
    • 1.5.8 Feature Comparison Matrix
• 2. Functional Requirements
  • 2.1. User Interface Overview
  • 2.2. Lecture Preparation
    • 2.2.1 Preparing Layouts
      • 2.2.1.1 Layout Requirements
      • 2.2.1.2 Layout Markup Summary
      • 2.2.1.3 Layout Markup Details
        • 2.2.1.3.1 The Layout Tag
        • 2.2.1.3.2 The Replace Tag
        • 2.2.1.3.3 The Sections Tag
        • 2.2.1.3.4 The eclass-incl Tag
      • 2.2.1.4 Default Layout
    • 2.2.2 Preparing Lectures
      • 2.2.2.1 Lecture Requirements
      • 2.2.2.2 Lecture Markup Summary
      • 2.2.2.3 Lecture Markup Details
        • 2.2.2.3.1 Header Sections
        • 2.2.2.3.2 Layout Set Selection
        • 2.2.2.3.3 eClass Slide Number Tag
        • 2.2.2.3.4 The Page Tag
        • 2.2.2.3.5 The SD tag
        • 2.2.2.3.6 The eclass-attrib optional attribute
        • 2.2.2.3.7 The Status Attribute
    • 2.2.3 Lecture preparation, eClass Representation of Lectures, and Examples
      • 2.2.3.1 Lecture Preparation Process
      • 2.2.3.2 Standard Layout Set
      • 2.2.3.3 Example Lecture
      • 2.2.3.4 Menu Commands during eClass Presentation
  • 2.3. Presenting the Lecture
    • 2.3.1 Presenting the Lecture
    • 2.3.2 Expanding and Collapsing
  • 2.4. The Roster
    • 2.4.1 Start up
    • 2.4.2 Taking attendance
    • 2.4.3 Allowing student navigation
    • 2.4.4 Hiding/showing public drawings
    • 2.4.5 Asking questions
    • 2.4.6 Answering questions
    • 2.4.7 Simple sorting
    • 2.4.8 Advanced sorting
  • 2.5. Interacting with the Main View
  • 2.6. Drawing Tools
  • 2.7. Chat Interface
    • 2.7.1 Create a conversation
    • 2.7.2 Create an empty conversation and add an user to it
    • 2.7.3 Create a conference
    • 2.7.4 Send and receive messages (single user)
    • 2.7.5 Send and receive messages (multiple users)
    • 2.7.6 Delete a conversation
    • 2.7.7 Viewing slides and modifications
  2.8. Viewing the Lecture from a Remote Location
  • 2.8.1 Viewing lecture using eClass program
  • 2.8.2 Viewing lecture by transferring file from an Alternate Machine
  • 2.8.3 Viewing lecture without eClass or a Web browser
  • 2.9 Details of File and Edit
• 3. Non-Functional Requirements
• 4. Developer Overview
• 5. Terms Glossary
• 6. Formal Specification
  • 6.1. UI Overview (eclass.rsl)
  • 6.2. Roster (roster.rsl)
  • 6.3. Drawing (drawing.rsl)
  • 6.4. Chat Interface (chatinterface.rsl)
  • 6.5. Outline Preview (slide-preview.rsl)
  • 6.6. Main View (main-view.rsl)
  • 6.7. Markup (markup.rsl)
  • 6.8. File-Edit (file-edit.rsl)
  • 6.9. Remote Viewing (remote.rsl)