Report about existing portals

Last week, after got back the approved proposal form, I met Ms Hazinah at her room. She said, she wants me to write a report about the existing portals such as "TeacherTube", "SchoolTube" and "TuitionTube" as mentioned in the proposal. So, details are as below:-

About "TeacherTube"
> Main features are searching, uploading and downloading of videos, audios, documents and photos that related to teaching stuffs or anything between teachers, students and others.
> But, to upload those videos, audios, documents and photos are required the user to register with the "TeacherTube" and also required to download those things as well.
> Menu Bar:-

• Home - Displays tabs of resources such as videos, audios, documents and photos which are newly added, recently viewed, and top rated.
• Videos - User can choose featured videos, recently added, most viewed, top rated and many others as well as uploading videos.
• Docs - User can choose featured videos, recently added, most viewed, top rated and many others as well as uploading documents.
• Audio - User can choose featured videos, recently added, most viewed, top rated and many others as well as uploading audios.
• Photo - User can choose featured videos, recently added, most viewed, top rated and many others as well as uploading photos.
• Channels - Specific for uploading either video, audio, photo or document.

> User that wanted to use the "TeacherTube" are free to sign up because it isn't restricted only for the teachers.
> While, for the searching part, user can choose to search by categories such as videos, audios, photos, documents and few others. However, they also can search by selecting "all media".


About "SchoolTube"
> Actually, "SchoolTube" is more specific to be used by teachers and students to share their works all across the nation by uploading videos about teaching stuffs. They believe that through this kind of method could teaches them new technique and also enhance their creativity.
> The button on menu bar for "SchoolTube" consist of :-

• Videos - here we can view all videos that this site have. All video are listed page by page.
  
• Channels - here will allow the user to put their preferences in categories such as Academic & Education, Music, Science, Technology and many others.
  
• Categories - user will be more easier to view or find the videos they wanted to watch by choosing its categories. There are about 24 categories been listed under this menu of categories.
• Contests - if there contest will be organized by any schools or other organizations which is related to education or academic will be advertised in here. So, users will be alerted about the contests.

> Sign-up/Login - new user needs to register or sign-up first before they could access into the "SchoolTube" features. Registration is depends on the user category. There are three category they could choose to register such as student, educator and others. Different category will lead to different user priviledge and of course the registration is free.
> "SchoolTube" also provide the user the function of searching. There is a searching field at the top on the right of the page. Searching can be done by choosing either videos, channels or schools.
> There are few other button on the menu bar which is one of that is Games. If user click on the button "Games", it will leads the user to another website which belongs to "SchoolTube" and it's called "SchoolTubeGames" (www.schooltubegames.com).


About "TuitionTube"
> "TuitionTube" is the website which is found in Singapore to help students in education through the internet such as e-learning and e-assessment. This is to provide home tuition for the students either local or foreign students in Singapore for virtual student-teacher interaction.
> Firstly, to join the "TuitionTube" they need to register online. There are three categories of registration links such as :-

• For students/parents who are looking for tutors.
• For tutors who wish to register with "TuitionTube" as free member or paid subscribers. But before registering, they must be familiar with the 10 Tutoring Principles which is tutor feedback by students will be based upon.
• For students/tutors who are not a member with "TuitionTube" but wish to join the referral scheme and earn referral commission.
  

> Payment for the tuition fees will be done by online which is user will be provided with the invoice that they could check on the status online too.
> User also may request for a tutor as well by online. There are only few subjects offered by this "TuitionTube" such as english, phonics, speech and drama, chinese, maths, arts, music and computer. But, for music client may put their preferences of the music teacher required and also choose the specific subjects offered for music.