Design and development of a bookmark manager for the university of Nairobi E-iearning system
Abstract
Bookmarks are normally considered to be thin markers commonly made out of paper
or leather, used to mark one's progress in printed material, bookmarks are dated as far
back as the sixteenth century.
Automating of bookmarks is dated as far back as with the introduction of the mosaic
browser whereby a user would be able to store addresses of pages of interest to him
on his personal machine, however unless he imports or exports his bookmarks, they
would not be able to be accessed from any other location, hence bringing up the need
to have web-based driven bookmark managers.
Live bookmarks, web-based bookmarks or internet bookmarks are database driven
bookmark managers, whereby a user may be able to keep a record of important pages
they find on the web and would like to resume back to in the future from a browser
machine located anywhere.
The University of Nairobi has an E-Iearning system referred to as Wedusoft, this
project is designed to keep a record of all important pages they find on the web as
well as to store the last page the user was as the home page, every time he logs o
Publisher
School of Computing and Informatics
Subject
E-Learning SystemDescription
MSc