As the name suggests, proxyMITY serves as a proxy, i.e. it provides virtual closeness (proximity) without the actual classroom. It is a Proxy Multimedia Integration Tool for You, that helps teachers create dynamic rich-media lectures.
Enhancements to proxyMITY on Aakash Tablet will help users to get access to quality lectures of reputed teachers, for effective personalized learning. They have the flexibility of studying anytime, anywhere, and at their own pace.
They can also navigate through the topics within the lecture by tree functionality. They can also play the subtitles with the video for better understanding. Bookmarking feature helps users to create and update the bookmarks on the videos.
Transcript feature is available in case user wants to go read the contents of the lecture rather than viewing the video.The users can test their efficiency by attending quiz sections. This graphical user Interface environment is user friendly so the users feel comfortable.
proxyMITY Lectures viewed on Aakash is an Open source software product. Published lectures that are released under the Creative Commons License by Attributions 2.5 are edited and prepared for distribution using proxyMITY.
The main goal is to implement in GUI and provide a user-friendly environment to user to view videos in SD-card as well as in server and provide accurate results to user so that the user may be stress free. proxyMITY is Open Source software. Therefore it is going to be freely available. It is Platform- Independent and easy to operate and maintain.
proxyMITY is available as an android application which has limited functionality. Students can select the video lectures and can navigate in it using tree structure. By using bookmarks they can update and store the video bookmarks in SQLite database. By selecting subtitles user can view the video subtitles.
Developing the proxyMITY tool on Android Platform using Eclipse, Android SDK and ADT Plugins. It contains the features such as:
- User-friendly GUI.
- By attending Quiz session user can test the performance.
- Transcripts which can be viewed as a text file.
| Abbreviation | Description |
|---|---|
| ADT | Android Developments Tools |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| AVD | Android Virtual Device |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| proxyMITY | proxy Multimedia Integration Tool For You |
| SDD | Software Design Document |
| SRS | Software Requirements Specification |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| XML | Extended Markup Language |
This Software Requirements Specification (SRS) is the requirements work product that formally specifies Enhancements to ProxyMITY. The objective of this document therefore is to formally describe the system’s high level requirements including functional requirements, non-functional requirements and business rules and constraints. The detail structure of this document is organized as follows:
Section 2 of this document provides an overview of the domain that the proposed application will support. These include a general description of the application, user characteristics, general constraints, and any assumptions for this project. Section 3 presents the detail requirements, which comprise the domain model.