About Me (TS Pradeep Kumar)

Working at VIT University and having great interest towards embedded wireless systems and e-learning. This site caters to most of the Indian Engineering/technology students to know about embedded systems, network simulator, e learning tools/techniques, etc. If you are a student or a learner, you can always request a title or post..

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IIT, IISc Video Lectures on Youtube

The video lectures of Science and Engineering Courses of IIT, IISc and with various other institutions is available in youtube for all for free access. More than 4700 video lectures are hosted in YouTube.
The entire project is funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India).

The following link you can make use [...]

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Workshop on Elearning tools and Techniques

The workshop on Elearning Tools and Techniques at VIT University, Vellore concluded well and nearly 40 participants have participated.
Some highlights of the workshop

The workshop started as per schedule exactly.
There was only a 20 minute presentation for the entire day, rest of the times were hands on session
The workshop completed as per schedule exactly.
The participants [...]

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Students Assignment and Project Management using Drupal

Modules Needed

Webform Module (download Link: http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=webform)

To create form to display the student particulars, assignment information

Captcha Module (download Link: http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=captcha)

This module is to avoid the automatic submission

Go to create content and click Webform
A page is opened with the following menus

Menu Link title – “Assignment 1 – B. Tech (CSE)”
Webform Settings – [...]

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Top 10 Moodle Myths

Once Moodle is stable, it will be put under licence. If it were any good, they’d already be charging for it
Moodle needs a full time, php developer on your staff- or at least a lot of technical support to run it in house
Moodle won’t be compatible with our other systems/software
Moodle just doesn’t [...]

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Installing WordPress on your Server

Download the source from the http://wordpress.org and extract or unzip it to the folder c:/wamp/www
1. Open the browser and type http://localhost/phpmyadmin and create a database for wordpress. I have created as wordpress.
2. Once the database is created, open a new window and type http://localhost/wordpress
3. First page may show error as give below

4. Click the “create [...]

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Modules in Drupal

Modules

Operation: administer -> Site builidng -> Modules
In the above diagram, the list of modules which comes along with drupal package is available. Some of the modules are enabled and some are disabled. It is upto the user that the modules can be enabled/disabled.
To Enable, the checkbox to the ticked.
How to add a new module

To [...]

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Installing Drupal

Assumptions
To get Drupal up and running, you will need all of the following:
A domain
A web host
FTP access to your web host
OR
A local testing environment
For building sites, either a web host or a local testing environment will meet your needs. A site built on a web-accessible domain can be shared via the internet, whereas sites built [...]

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Drupal Terminology

Drupal, like most software applications, has a specific lexicon. Mastering Drupal jargon is useful for many reasons, not the least of which is that using Drupal-specific terminology can help you search for information more effectively. The glossary in this chapter will give you an overview of commonly used Drupal terms, and what they mean.
This list [...]

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Installing WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

Download WAMP from the following link. http://www.wampserver.com/en/ 
It is an .exe file, simply double click it and give the path as C:/wamp or whatever directory you want,give it.
Once installation is successful, an icon will be appearing at the bottom right task bar like this
Click the icon, a menu will be opened, click [...]

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E learning tools

There are various tools available for providing the lecture notes as content, video lectures, audio lectures, etc. Some of the tools are open source and some are paid tools. Its up to an individual to select the tool either as open source or paid source.
This post list some of the tools that are needed for [...]

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