We developed a component-based miniature e-learning portal aiming at delivering a small set of subjects in an institute of learning, or supporting a small to medium sized coaching centre. The main thrust is to make the portal simple with minimal requirement on the hardware and software, yet still very competitive in its functionalities. Under the auspice of not having to serve many hundreds of subjects simultaneously, this portal supports not only all the major e-learning activities such as student registration, assignment submission, online quizzes, forums, feedback editing, scheduled surveys etc, but also new challenges such as a fairer marker reallocation, and programming drills with an automatic marking. The fact that it is component-based, concise, and essentially free means that instructors can easily add their own additional dedicated teaching modules themselves. This portal can stand on its own, or be embedded into other major teaching systems, or do the both concurrently, and it has been deployed by one of the authors for the delivery of large cohorts of hundreds of students in a university over the last 10 years while it was and still is being further developed, including the modules for the knowledge-based training that is yet to be fully implemented.
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