Mis205 Final Project

Information System in Classe365

Prepared for
Ashik Imran Khan
Prepared by

NAME ID

SADNEEMA AHSAN 151 0672 030

FAHMIDA TANJIM 141 1725 030

ISHRAT ALAM 151 0944 630

TANZIM ALAM 142 0050 030

SORNALY AHMED 161 1037 030

Date of submission: 21st August, 2017

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Letter of Transmittal
21August, 2017

Ashik Imran Khan

Department of management

School of business and economics

North South University

Subject: Letter of transmittal of the report on Classe365.

Sir

We are all your students from your Mis205 course of section-9, summer 2017 batch, We all the
group members are reporting about Classee365 and its uses in the age of e-commerce including
many other different aspects of the software .It is being submitted to you as a part of our
assignment .This report has been prepared with the concepts written in the report guideline
accordingly .Hopefully all our effort will be appreciated by you and excuse the minor errors.
Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

Sadneema Ahsan

Fahmida Tanzim

Ishrat Alam

Tanzim Alam

Sornaly Ahmed

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Executive Summery
We got a first-hand experience to know the ins and outs of an e-business organization. Our
principal objective for this report has been to demeanor the performance of Classee365 and the
its functions, uses and opportunities in the age of e-commerce as a educational software .The
software we have studied on is a newly introduced educational software but rapidly getting
accepted by educational institutes all over the world. We have optimized the software’s
chronological history, mission, vision, infrastructure, technical understanding, goals, target,
portal, features .It has been a great experience. All things are demonstrated in our report.

The company has various strengths and weakness as well as opportunities and threats. They also
have some security issues which they are trying to overcome.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction……………………………………………………………….4pg
2. Mission and vision………………………………………………………..5pg
3. Role of information system……………………………………………….6pg
4. System Approach………………………………………………………..7-9pg
5. System Infrastructure………………………………………………….10-17pg
6. Technical Understanding……………………………………………...17-18pg
7. System Security…………………………………………………………..19pg
8. Conclusion………………………………………………………………..20pg
9. Reference…………………………………………………………………20pg

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 INTRODUCTION
Clase365 is cloud based student information and learning management system that provides
educational institutions a single unified approach to manage the entire organization through the
cloud.

• Its co-founder and head of growth is Nandan Keerthi, product mentor is Vanisree
Ranganath, advisory director Daniel Rongo.

• It includes many features such as CRM, finance and accounting, Analytics, preadmissions.
LMS, integrations and other educational additions.

• It’s now being used by academies, colleges, schools and universities around the world. It
is being used by 130+ countries, 4500+ educational institutions, 10, 00, 000 students
around the world.

• It also offers customers (educational institutions) monetization opportunities through

optional modules such as E-commerce.

• It also offers jobs and provides its workers commitments to the applicants, inclusive
culture and great workplace.

• Clasee365 has build technology that provides a complete student management system, its
mission and vision is to allow teachers and educators to deliver their knowledge through
traditional and blended learning environments, where student can learn, gain knowledge
and build their future.

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 MISSION AND VISION OF CLASSEE365
 Founder and employees believe that great learning lives and thrives in the hands of
independent teachers who can easily adopt changing socio-techno economic conditions
alongside traditional learning methods. So classe365 wants to make education such
easier.
 Building technology that provides a complete student management software system.
 Allowing teachers and educators to deliver knowledge through traditional and blended
learning environments, where students can learn, gain knowledge, and build their future.
 Classee365 is managed at the highest levels by innovators, industry experts, educators,
and education zealots. They are the executives that help mould us into the leaders we
want to become. They‘re forging ahead with our mission to help education institutions
and students succeed, and setting a clear vision for the future of Classe365.

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 Role of information system in Classe365
The four major functions of that information system are-

1. It has innovative online portals for every member of education eco-system.

2. Helping education institutions meet the evolving needs of education infrastructure.
3. Managing entire activities in the cloud.
4. Modular approach to enabling education institutions.

Basically Classe365 is founded in 2013 and its founders are the only persons who are directing
this information system that’s why our selected information system is mainly supporting its top
level layer of the organization.

The three major benefits of having this information systems are-

1. Reduced admin cost.

2. Go Green- less carbon footprint
3. Institutions using Classe365 can save $60 per year.
4. Increase school credibility.

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 SYSTEM APPROACH
Classe365's system approach is a modular approach. It enables the educational institutions to
manage all their organizational activities online in a cost effective way.

Functional Modules

The system approach of class 365 is based on the functional modules consisting of 1) core
modules and 2)add on modules.

Core Modules

All of the features below are included within the base package. These basic modules provide the
customers with everything they need to start running their institution and managing the student
experience more efficiently.

1) Academics: Curriculum management, Classe365 Management multi level and course

grouping.

2) Apps: Google Apps integration, Office365 integration & clever integration, plus 20+ more
app integrations.

3) Messaging & Communication : SMS & email communication engine, 500 SMS/Month free
on all plans, low cost SMS top-up options.

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4) Social Learning. : Private social network for teachers, students & staff, organization and
course level social discussions & collaboration.

Add On Modules

The customers can select any of the add-on modules to suit institution’s needs

1) Admission / Enrolment: $50/Month -Unlimited Students. Paperless Admission, New Leads

Management and a Customizable online enrolment.

2) Learning Management System: $50/Month -Unlimited Students. Lesson Plans, Curriculum

Management Flipped Class Assignment Management

3) Fee & Donation: $50/Month -Unlimited Students. Invoice management online payment
option via web or mobile app Payment Gateway Integration

4) Financial Accounting: $50/Month -Unlimited Students. Accounting software with tools to

manage your books. It Includes P&L Statements, Balance Sheets, Ledger Statements,
Reconciliation and more.

5) Alumni: $50/Month -Unlimited Students. Keep alumni informed about your school activities.
Fully featured Alumni directory easily archive students to alumni and vice versa

6) E-Commerce Store: Order, supply and $50/Month -Unlimited Students. Private e-commerce
store to sell products Product and categories management discounts management

7) White label: $50/Month -Unlimited Students. Custom Domains and URL rewrite. Options to
hide Classe365 branding and other brand personalisation options.

INPUTS:

The system considers the mentioned core modules and the add-on modules as inputs.

PROCESSING:

Here, the costing is not based on the number of the students but on the selection of the customers
regarding the packages offered by Classe365. So, that's why, the number of enrolled students is
unlimited. Any type of educational institution, such as - Academies: Performance Arts,

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Language Schools, Professional Career Academy, Sports & Fitness Academy, Private & After
School Tuition Academies. Schools: Public / District Schools, Private Schools, International
Baccalaureate & Career School, Religious Schools. Higher Ed. College: Community Colleges,
Vocational - Technical Colleges, Career colleges, Liberal arts colleges Higher Ed. Colleges.
Universities: Public, Private, Religious, Distance Education, Online Virtual University
Universities can sign up for free. The basic package costs $50 per month and adding more
modules with the core package will cost the customers, again, $50 per added module.

OUTPUTS:

The services, provided by Classe365, mentioned, are the outputs.

BUSINESS REVENUE MODEL

Value Proposition

This portion will describe how Classe365 provides superior value to its customers. With this
value proposition it attempts to offer better value than most of its competitors.

1) Pricing:

Classe365's affordable modular student management system gives educators and educational
organizations of all shapes and sizes the freedom to create and customize solution that meets
their requirements and budget and the best bit is the customers only pay for the modules that they
want to use.

2) Quality:

Classe365 always try to provide the highest quality services and make sure their customers are
satisfied. They do not compromise with the quality which is really a very important part of their
business.
3) Services:

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Thousands of educational organizations, today, use fragmented school management systems and
software platforms to manage their administrative and learning activities. Classe365 provide a
solution that unifies them all in one simple and beautiful platform. From admissions to alumni
and everything in between Classes 365 helps to innovate institute's students and learning
activities through the services, provided.

4) "Click To Call And Email":

Classe365 provides "1 click to call and email”, to purchase services and to report any problem
faced, to its customers.

Revenue Model
This part of the report shows how classe365 will earn income, produce profits and generate a
higher than average return on investment.

Advertising:
Advertising is the first way to get the customers familiar with the online student management
system. Class 365 is not exception in these cases. They also promote advertisement to create
interest to their targeted customers. And it’s also a way of generating their income. They’re
investing a lot in these sectors to earn income.

System infrastructure
Infrastructure is the foundation or framework that supports a system or organization. In
computing, information technology infrastructure is composed of physical and virtual resources
that support the flow, storage, processing and analysis of data. Infrastructure may be centralized
within a data center, or it may be decentralized and spread across several data centers that are
either controlled by the organization or by a third party, such as a colocation facility or cloud
provider.

Components of system infrastructure

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Data center infrastructure often includes the power, cooling and building elements necessary to
support data center hardware. The data center hardware infrastructure usually involves servers;
storage subsystems; networking devices, like switches, routers and physical cabling; and
dedicated network appliances, such as network firewalls.

A data center infrastructure also requires careful consideration of IT infrastructure security. This
can include physical security for the building, such as electronic key entry, constant video and
human surveillance of the premises, carefully controlled access to the server and storage spaces,
and so on. This ensures only authorized personnel can access the data center hardware
infrastructure and reduces the potential for malicious damage or data theft.

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Outside of the data center is an internet infrastructure, which includes transmission media, such
as fiber optic cables, satellites, microwave -- line of sight -- antennas, routers, aggregators,
repeaters, load balancers and other network components that control transmission paths. Internet
infrastructures are designed, built and operated by internet service providers (ISPs), such as
Verizon and AT&T. When a business engages an ISP for internet access, the ISP typically ties
into the data center infrastructure within a dedicated and secured building space.

The role of cloud computing is changing the way infrastructures are designed and implemented.
Where traditional, business-owned data centers are private, capital-intensive resources, cloud
computing enables organizations to access a cloud provider's data center infrastructure and
services for a fee. This infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) model allows flexible computing on
demand. Users can invoke a cloud provider's compute, storage and services without the need to
deploy those resources locally -- and adjust cloud infrastructure usage as workload needs change.

The software-as-a-service (SAAS) model offers similar benefits for specific workloads. A third-

party provider hosts hardware, software, servers, storage and other infrastructure components,
and it allows users to access the provider's hosted workloads instead of deploying and
maintaining those workloads locally. For example, users can employ SAAS workloads for
databases, HR applications, analytical applications, office productivity suites and many others.

Dimension of information system infrastructure

According to Star and Ruhleder, there are 8 dimensions of information infrastructures.

1. Embeddedness
2. Transparency
3. Reach or scope
4. Learned as part of membership
5. Links with conventions of practice
6. Embodiment of standards
7. Built on an installed base
8. Becomes visible upon breakdown

How infrastructure was created

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Our organization has a traditional information infrastructure that follow a formalized process that
starts by analyzing and accessing business goals, making architectural and design decisions,
building and implementing the design, and then optimizing and maintaining the infrastructure.
The process usually involves detailed expertise, including data center building design, subsystem
and component selection, and quality construction techniques.

However, the way IT infrastructures are created is continually changing. Traditional

heterogeneous infrastructure development is a highly manual process that requires enormous
integration, optimization and systems management efforts -- especially when integrating servers,
storage, network and other components from diverse vendors.

Today, some vendors provide pre integrated and pre optimized collections of compute, storage
and network equipment that optimize the IT hardware and virtualization platform into a single
system that can be deployed, expanded and managed easily. This modular approach is
called converged infrastructure (CI). This notion has advanced into single-vendor systems that
offer even tighter integration and management over compute, storage, network and virtualization.
This advanced approach is called hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI).

Infrastructure management
Regardless of how it is created, an IT infrastructure must provide a suitable platform for all the
necessary IT applications and functions an organization or individual requires. This means the
design and implementation of any IT infrastructure must also support efficient infrastructure
management. Software tools must allow IT administrators to view the infrastructure as a single
entity, as well as access and configure granular operating details of any device in the
infrastructure. This single-pane-of-glass objective results in more effective and efficient
infrastructure management. Solid management also allows admin to optimize resources for
different workloads, and to more readily understand and handle the impact of any changes on
interrelated resources.

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Infrastructure management is often divided into multiple categories. For example, a building
management system (BMS) provides the tools that report on data center facilities parameters,
including power usage and efficiency, temperature and cooling operation, and physical security
activities. Systems management includes the wide range of tool sets an IT team uses to configure
and manage servers, storage and network devices. Increasingly, systems management tools are
extending to support remote data centers, along with private and public cloud resources.
Management tools are also making extensive use of automation and orchestration to improve
efficiency, reduce errors and comply with established best practices or business objectives.

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CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

Cloud infrastructure refers to the hardware and software components -- such as servers, storage,

a network and virtualization software -- that are needed to support the computing requirements of
a cloud computing model.

Cloud infrastructure also includes an abstraction layer that virtualizes resources and logically
presents them to users through application program interfaces and API-enabled command-
line or graphical interfaces.

In cloud computing, these virtualized resources are hosted by a service provider or IT department
and are delivered to users over a network or the internet. These resources include virtual
machines and components, such as servers, memory, network switches, firewalls, load balancers
and storage.

Cloud infrastructure components

In a cloud computing architecture, cloud infrastructure refers to the back-end components -- the
hardware elements found within most enterprise data centers. These include multi
socket, multicore servers, persistent storage and local area network equipment, such
as switches and routers -- but on much greater scale.

Major public cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform,

offer services based on shared, multi-tenant servers. This model requires massive compute
capacity to handle both unpredictable changes in user demand and to optimally balance demand
across fewer servers. As a result, cloud infrastructure typically consists of high-density systems
with shared power.

Additionally, unlike most traditional data center infrastructures, cloud infrastructure typically
uses locally attached storage, both solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drive (HDDs), instead
of shared disk arrays on a storage area network. The disks in each system are aggregated using
a distributed file system designed for a particular storage scenario, such as object, big
data or block. Decoupling the storage control and management from the physical implementation

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via a distributed file system simplifies scaling. It also helps cloud providers match capacity to
users' workloads by incrementally adding compute nodes with the requisite number and type of
local disks, rather than in large amounts via a large storage chassis.

Cloud infrastructure as a service

While cloud infrastructure is the hardware and software components required for cloud
computing, infrastructure as a service (IAAS) is a cloud model that gives organizations the
ability to rent those IT infrastructure components -- including compute, storage and networking
-- over the internet from a public cloud provider. This public cloud service model is often
referred to as IAAS.

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IAAS eliminates the upfront capital costs associated with on-premises infrastructure, and instead
follows a usage-based consumption model. In this pay-per-usage model, users only pay for the
infrastructure services consumed, generally on an hourly, weekly or monthly basis.

Cloud providers typically price IAAS on a metered basis, with rates corresponding to usage at a
given level of performance. For virtual servers, this means different prices for various server
sizes, typically measured as an increment of a standard virtual CPU size and corresponding
memory. For storage, pricing is typically based on the type of storage service, such as object or
block, performance level (SSD or HDD) and availability -- a single storage location or
replication across multiple geographic regions. Capacity is measured by usage per unit time --
typically per month.

IAAS vendors also provide discounts for sustained usage, or the use of a consistent level of
compute capacity for a specified amount of time, or reserved capacity, where users can prepay
for a guaranteed level of capacity for a month, year or multiple years.

IAAS vendors include AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure and IBM.

Technical Understanding
They have ability to use the best technology around helps to ensure that Classe365 has the
potential to transform the traditional classroom into a unique and innovative learning experience
for all students.
To enhance the features of their school management software they have integrated with a wide
range of recognized and specialist technology providers that include- Google Apps, Office365,
Intercom, Mail chimp, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, Canvas LMS and Clever. We can
manage our learning and academic information on any phone or tablet powered by Classe365’s
native iOS or Android App.

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  Classe365 now provides Google Apps and Google Apps for Education integration. Google
Apps for Education provides great free tools for education institutions for overall productivity.
Combined with Classe365’s powerful student information system, education institutions can now
leverage the productivity features of Google Apps and overall institution efficiency provided by
Classe365. With this integration, institutions can now take advantage of using Single Sign On
(SSO), Google Drive and Google Calendar functions from inside Classe365.
 To enable this feature, have to follow the below steps-

1. Go to https://console.developers.google.com

2. Click on Create Project to create a new project.

Create project

3. Give a name for the new project and click Create. Your new project will open.

4. Click on APIs and auth and then APIs, and then enable the Google Apps APIs – Drive API,
Calendar API and Gmail API.

Click Enable when asked.

5. Click on Credentials.

6. Click on Create new Client ID on the link oauth in the screen that shows up.

7. Enable Web Application radio button and click configure consent screen and fill only the
required values.

8. After the values are saved, you will be redirected to the page to create a Client ID.

9. The Client ID and Client secret will be shown. Copy this information

10. Login to Classe365 as admin. Go to the App section under settings.

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 Information System Security

This massive increase in the uptake of e-commerce has led to a new generation of associated
security threats, but any e-commerce system must meet four integral requirements:

 Malicious Attack – Worms can cause a great deal of damage–often they are used to
“jam” communication channels by means of a DoS attack. A worm is capable of
spreading worldwide, via the Internet, in minutes. Trojan: A Trojan is a malware program
that, unlike viruses or worms, cannot copy itself and infect files.

 Data leakage– The unauthorized transfer of classified information from a computer or

datacenter to the outside world. Data leakage can be accomplished by simply mentally
remembering what was seen, by physical removal of tapes, disks and reports or by subtle
means such as data hiding.

 Fraud- Nowadays online fraud is increasing very fast. This sort of act may result in
direct financial loss. Frauds must be transferred from one account to another, or financial
records of the business might simply be destroyed.

Identified two risks that will cause severe damage and security
management which can prevent or manage those risks
Malicious Attack – Worms can cause a great deal of damage–often they are used to “jam”
communication channels by means of a DoS attack. A worm is capable of spreading worldwide,
via the Internet, in minutes. Trojan: A Trojan is a malware program that, unlike viruses or
worms, cannot copy itself and infect files

 Suggestions: use firewall and security software to increase internal

and external online security.

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 Conclusion
Classe365 is one of those modern applications which are making easy peoples life. Especially in
educational sector this information system is contributing tremendously. Its e-business strategy is
b2c and all information is processed in central server to communicate with internal process by
FTP intermission. It is also helping transform education, supporting educators, inspiring
students, empowering school and universities.

Reference
http://www.slideshare.net/classe365?nomobile=true

www.classe365.com

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