Abstract
In an educational context, we are faced with similar challenges. How do we keep the adminis tration, faculty, staff and students well informed about institutional policies and procedures? How do we ensure the student body receives accurate and up-to-date information to help them achieve their educational and career goals? How to check for plagiarism cases? In addition, we hope to build learning communities-communities of students, instructors, administration, faculty and staff all collaborating and constructing strong relationships that provide the foundation for students to achieve their goals with greater success. We also want to promote information sharing so users can build on their experiences at the institution. Plus, we want to provide seamless integration with legacy and other applications in some easy, modifiable and reusable way. One solution to these goals is to provide a support tool for such learning through a learning portal. This portal should provide all users (e.g. students, instructors) with valuable information required. However, building and modifying learning portal is no small task, especially when you consider the shrinking budgets and limited resources in today's economy. Java portlet presents a new solution in which new functionality can be plugged to existing portals. This study shed some light on an ongoing research to develop a plagiarism detection portlet for java student assignments.
Highlights
Learning portals that encourage collaborative and teamwork had been introduced to help overcome the current limitation faced by traditional face-to-face classroom learning approach
A learning portal is the doorway to the capabilities provided by a Learning Management System (LMS)
The solution of plagiarism detection problem cannot be solved by having a registered link to cyber-based plagiarism detection packages (e.g. Turnitin,WordCheck, PlagiServe, IntegridGuard, CopyCatch) where mostly they can identify general copying features based on Cut-and-Past material from the internet or from their local databases
Summary
Learning portals that encourage collaborative and teamwork had been introduced to help overcome the current limitation faced by traditional face-to-face classroom learning approach. Portals use Java portlets as pluggable user interface components that provide a presentation layer to information systems. It is the technological step, after servlets and RMI programming in Web application programming. To interact with a portlet, the portal Web application component calls on a specific API provided by the portlet container. Jakarta Pluto is the reference implementation of a Java portlet container and includes a very simple portal Web application component for testing portlets. To achieve linkage between the learning portal and the required portlet one need to establish a new channel for providing additional features required by the portlet In this direction the Portlet Container from the Apache Jakarta project called Pluto (http://portals.apache.org/pluto/) and play the role of this channel. We need to build a Portlet Registry based on all the Portlets that are deployed into the servlet container
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