Delivering E-content through Higher

Education Web Portal to the

Students of Government and Aided
Colleges of Karnataka

Dr. C S Venkatarama Reddy

Librarian
Govt. First Grade College, Bagepalli
 Introduction
• dissemination of information
• big data analytics
• researcher and the publishers to find suitable
information generation
• creating the content management system
• enrich the content in the web portals
• protocols and Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
• static website - constant information
• dynamic websites – updateable
• dynamic pages - Java Server Pages (JSP),
Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP, Python, Perl
• Plugins like Silverlight and Flash
 Difference between Web page and
Portal
Website Portal
Accessible via unique URL A private location accessible with
unique URL
Features No login required Personal login required
The content is publically available Only members can see the content
The content can’t be changed by Content is unique with member
individuals permissions and setting
Interactive in nature A secure access point, dynamic
content is changed frequently
Property Front facing application Back end facing application
Management Location of generic content Educate site portal members
Application
 Web Portal
• website designed specially to bring
information from various sources like e-mail,
online forums, and search engines
• source of information is a dedicated area to
display on a particular page
• configured according to the user needs
• variants of portals include mashups and
intranet dashboards
• “A web portal is a customized website that
immerses information from a wide array of
sources in a consistent and uniformed manner”.
• customized based on the domain
• enterprise portal has a regular design
• it interacts with various applications and
databases on the network
• Federal and Government portals
• Enterprise and Corporate portals
• Trade and Cultural portals
• Financial and Stock portals
• Search portals
• Bidding and Tender portals
• Domain-specific portals
 Department of Collegiate Education
• Department of Collegiate Education – 1960
• strive to provide quality higher education
• In affordable and accessible to all sections of society
• concern on the overall development of the students
• most backward communities, woman, rural students are not
accessible to the tertiary education
• responsible in planning, administrating and funding the 411
government and 315 private aided colleges
• 6 regional offices at Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Shimoga,
Dharwad, and Gulbarga
• 14 affiliating universities
• 5400 faculties and 2150 support and administrative staff
• around 3 lakhs students
 Government First Grade Colleges
Umbrella Portal
• umbrella portal - 16th January 2015
• provides information about the colleges
• colleges are responsible for the content provided
• designed by National Informatics Centre (NIC),
Bangalore
• unique content management system
• software system that provides authoring,
collaboration and administration tools allow
users to create and manage the content with
little knowledge of web programming or markup
languages
• The portal is a bundled application to create,
deploy, manage and store contents on web pages.
• The content - text, photos, code and graphics.
• The portal allows the client to control over the
content based on the HTML, files, documents and
web hosting.
• http://gfgc.kar.nic.in
• http://gfgc-man.kar.nic.in/cms-admin/login.aspx.
 Technology
• ASP.NET
• almost all applications of NIC uses ASP.NET
• integrated with the existing projects to fetch and
display the specific information
• staff information and course content from the
Electronic Management Information System
(EMIS) of the department
• The CMS has two parts
– Website (User Application)
– Web Application (Admin Application)
User Portal
GFGC, Bagepalli
 Admin Portal
• There are two types of users in the umbrella portal
– Web Writer
– Web Publisher
• Web Writer -has the permission to create or update
the website content details
• Roles of Web Writer
– Creating or Updating the Content
– Creating or Updating the Events
– Creating or Updating the Links
– Upload the Gallery Images
– Upload the PDF Files
– Updating User Details
• Web Publisher
– has the permission to approve the contents
created by the web writer
– create, update and approve
• Roles of Web Publisher
– Approve the Website Content created or updated
by Web writer
– Creating Menu Categories
– Managing the Configurations
• Admin Modules
• credentials required to obtain access
• Application which is controlled by identifying and authenticating
the user
Admin login Portal
Admin Master Control Portal
 Fields and Descriptions of the data
field
Fields and Descriptions Data Field Description
Content Title Header Title
Title in Kannada Header Title in Kannada (Optional)
Content Brief Description Description of Title
Content Brief Description in Kannada Description of Title in Kannada (Optional)
Detailed Description Description of the Content – This is the Main Part of Content
Detailed Description in Kannada Description of the Content in Kannada(Optional)
Display this data from Data will be displayed between for the Selected Period only
(From Date – To Date)
Block In which Post has to Come Block Section [Select Home to display data in Home Page and
other than that select General without Block]
Layout Select either Single or 2 column
Active Check the Active Checkbox. Only Active Items will be displayed
on the website
Content Image Uploading the Content Image- A content image is a descriptive
image banner, which will be displayed on top of the content.
Attachment Uploading the PDF File
Select Category You can choose Multiple Categories [Menu Category]
Select Files Choose Multiple Files
 E-Learning & E-Content
• JnanaSangama - Smart Karnataka Education Yardstick
• integration of Information Communication Technology
(ICT)
• technology-enabled teaching, learning and governance
• dream of transforming - digitally mature knowledge
powerhouses
• Tele-education - encourage the participation of
economically backward students of the Hyderabad-
Karnataka region
• to increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio of this region
• Skill Training for Students is witnessing extraordinary
changes aimed at achieving global standards in
knowledge transfer and creation of the skilled human
resource
 Conclusion and Discussion
• serve as single window access for information
• helps in navigation, integration of information,
personalization, collaboration, and application
integration
• uniformed website within a single window to access
various information of the colleges
• DCE - initiated many programs to deliver quality
education to the underprivileged citizens of the nation
• umbrella portal - is providing information about all the
colleges of the department at the place
• has 400+ colleges in one platform with a unique URL to
access
• umbrella has listed all the government and private
aided colleges according to the divisions or region wise
• provides the
• information about the college, mission, vision, and
goals of the college, mainly the website provides the
course offered, staff members and admission
information
• scholarships available for the students
• quality programs initiated by the college, alumni of the
college
• has a link with the library services and the e-resources
available in the library
• has the DCE alert - integrated with the DCE website
• notification bar - latest programs of the college,
events information and the gallery of the college
• admin - access the site to create content and
pages with dynamism.
• web content management system - software that
provides authoring, collaboration, and
administration of tools designed to allow users to
create and manage the content of the website
• integrated with the EMIS software of DCE