1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
We are a Sunnyvale, CA based company that provides Education to High School Students. We currently offer two versions of our Education course. One is a live scheduled classroom course that allows groups of students to learn together in-person. The other is an online individualized self-paced class that a single student takes on his own time.
In a nutshell this is an integration project using wordpress as the front end and integrating into this, credit card processing, user authentication, Moodle and Dim Dim.
We need a contractor with web site development, LMS, and graphic design skills to convert our existing website to a Web2.0 site, with dynamic content, company blogs, social networking features, and integration with mySpace, facebook, and twitter for sharing content. We expect you complete this task with no code changes to the open source components.
2. HOW OUR SITE WORKS
Our site largely consists of two components: the “company” pages that users are directed to when they first come to our site.
The other component is the “online school”, where students-members are directed to once they login into their accounts. The steps that a user might progress through would involve arriving at our site onto the “company” page, becoming a member by enrolling as a student-member for a class, and finally registering/creating a username/password & entering their credit card information. Once users are registered student-members, they will gain access to the “online school.”
2.1. “Company” Component Details
These are pages that provide static information regarding our company, services, teachers, and other info. This is all available on our current site and can be directly transferred over to the new site. The new site will have additional dynamic content and should have Web 2.0 features. There will also be an intranet area of the site accessible only to employees. As we planning to post blogs and articles for students, we want to implement the site with WordPress, which must seamlessly integrate with all other areas of our site.
2.2. “Online School” Component
Currently, this is implemented in a proprietary manner (i.e. not open source). We are looking to transfer/convert all of our online course material onto an open source LMS, i.e. Moodle. We would like to customize this Moodle part of our site to match the “look and feel” of our “Company” pages. Within this Moodle area of the site, we are considering to add features, such as a Virtual Classroom Software (i.e. DimDim), which will be used for group lessons as well as 1-on-1 tutoring. We would also like to integrate a Social Networking Site (such as Elgg or Facebook Groups). We are also seeking advice as to other learning tools that might be available and easily integrated into Moodle.
3. NECESSARY FEATURES
3.1. Search Engine Optimized
The site needs to be designed for Search Engine Optimization and consistent with our existing Google Adwords Campaigns.
3.2. Intranet
This area will be password protected and will provide static content such as employee policy handbooks, documents as well as training web pages that integrate audio and video content. The training web pages will also have embedded video content streamed from youtube.com university.
3.3. Social Networking
For the “company” component, we want to integrate blogs and the ability for users to post comments. The users should be able to share our blogs thru email, myspace, facebook, linkedin etc. For the “online school” component, we want to integrate an already-existing social network platform
