Edmodo Educational Mobile Application Integration Report

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Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
Background......................................................................................................................................3
Proposed solution.............................................................................................................................4
Cost analysis....................................................................................................................................4
Strategic alignment within the organization's business and IT strategies........................................5
Project management and control.....................................................................................................5
Infrastructure requirements..............................................................................................................6
Software design, development methodologies, and testing strategies.............................................7
Internationalization for a global market..........................................................................................8
Social media integration strategies..................................................................................................8
Risk management.............................................................................................................................9
Integration and deployment strategies...........................................................................................10
User acceptance and change management.....................................................................................11
Maintenance...................................................................................................................................12
Future opportunities and enhancements........................................................................................13
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................15

Executive summary
The report that is created is based on the major aspects of the application that is named as
“Edmodo” and is based on the education application that helps the students to learn and study in
an interactive and effective way. This application contains many features that are discussed in
the given report. Moreover the points on which the overall report depends and discuss about are
the problem discussion along with the proposed solution, cost analysis of the development of the
application is created, various strategies that are adopted by the organization in order to enhance
their business, maintenance, requirements, strategies, user acceptance, international marketing,
integration strategies and many other techniques to expand the business by integrating the mobile
application in the business. The application can increase the efficiency of the students to learn
and study by wasting the time in writing the notes and to organize them so this report contains
the overall major points of the mobile application integration in the business.

Background
The background of the project is to create an application regarding the education and training
application. This application is beneficial for the students those who face issues while studying
and this application is beneficial for students those are preparing for competitive exams as well.
If any student is not capable of going to coaching or institute for any reason then this particular
application helps them to prepare for the examination in the minimum cost that needs to pay for
purchasing the modules present in this application for every course. The application contains
many video lectures and notes arranged properly that can help the student to save their time and
the whole course will be subdivided according to the number of chapters that are present in it.
This particular report contains the documentation of the application; the costs that will need to
create the application, the risk that can face while the development of the application and many
more such aspects. The problem is to provide the solution for better education and training
application and this problem is resolved by the design that is created that contains the application
of education named ‘Edmodo’. The application design is created by the help of wireframes that
are created with a tool named Balsamiq and it provides attractive and interactive design through
which user can easily study the course that is available on the application. The design can be
modified before the initialization of the project as only the designing part is created,
implementation is not. Before developing the project, make sure that all the requirements are
meets according to the client.

Proposed solution
The solution of the problem that is faced by the students of less interactive ways of study that
hampers their interest in the study can be resolved by using this application that is named as
Edmodo and is based on the education and training application. The application design is created
by using the Balsamiq tool and provided before the initialization of the project so that if any
changes are required in the project, it can be performed according to the requirements of the
client. The solution contains the interactive videos, organized notes and playful quizzes that
enhance the knowledge of the students as well as maintain their interest in the studies. For
accessing all the features of the application it is important to purchase the modules chapter wise
so that the student can buy the module of its own choice or in the chapter that the student found
difficult and least interesting. This application as a solution is provided for the student that can
enhance their grades as well as knowledge by visualization of the theoretical part so that student
can avoid cramming senselessly and can able to understand the chapter into detail. Not only the
students of schools or colleges can use this application but also the people those fight for
different competitive exams. This application contains the sample papers of previous years
questions that can help the student to prepare overall, students can save their time in collecting
the notes as they can found here in one application (Whitehead and Seaton, 2016).
Cost analysis
For the development of the proposed solution there is a use of proper cost analysis that is
required and discussed here:
 The designing part of the application is the essential part of the development.
 The cost of hiring a professional is approximately $150 and or lesser.
 The cost of building the application on the platform like android or iOs can cost
up to nearly $5000
 For adding more features in the application costs more. The user needs to login
into the application for accessing those features. For this, an API is required and
all the API’s are not available free of cost on the internet so the User login API
integration can cost nearly $150.
 For adding the feature of the push notification in the application the approx cost
will be $280.
 For adding the navigations in the application the cost will be nearly $300.
 For the integration of the subscription facility or buying the modules offline, the
cost will be $450-$550.
 The addition of payment gateways in the application, the cost will be nearly
$2000-$3000.

 For managing and creation of the database and server, the cost can be nearly
$700-$850.
 For building the search bar in the application the cost can be up to $250.
 The additional cost of marinating and regular services of the application is will
also get added in the cost analysis.
Strategic alignment within the organization's business and IT strategies
The Edmodo application provides the interactive and best possible way so as to help the student
in studying and maintaining their interest as well as the understanding of each and every topic
thoroughly in detail. The strategy used by this company is to provide the facility of watching the
videos and accessing the organized notes by purchasing the modules of the subject so that the
student can access all the provided facility after purchasing them. This will provide the benefit to
the students as well as for the company as well. Students can now watch the videos and read
notes as well as play the quizzes offline and the company can earn from the modules that are
purchased by the students. The application can be used by any student whether to learn for
schools and colleges exam or to study for the competitive exam. This application provides all the
sufficient notes as well as syllabus with appropriate questionnaire and quizzes so that the time of
the student which is the major factor for students those are preparing for competition exam can
be saved. If students found difficulty in searching notes and syllabus in the real world then this
application is beneficial for them as well. This application is created so as to provide major help
for students and help them grab the topics more appropriately and in the least time (Zydney et
al., 2016).
Value proposition and other benefits
The value proposition is to have the key role in a strategy of the business and it should be the
only one important and essential principle (Moreno et al., 2015). This particular proposition
helps in explaining the problem’s solution that is faced by the organizations, to provide the
profits and benefits by using various unique and different ways and to target various audiences.
The headline of the Edmodo includes the product and the audiences that are targeted in order to
provide the service of learning for the students and other customers are the vanguard of the
company. Therefore, by providing personal material of studying and treating every single student
individually helps in highlighting the value of the application that is created for mobile devices
(Viberg and Grönlund, 2017).
Project management and control
The project management after its completion is an essential task that needs to be done so as to
manage the project and avoid destruction in the project due to various risks that can be

encountered after the project completion. For monitoring the progress as well as the performance
of the EDMODO application project that is based on the education and training application, a
tracker is required for managing the project as well as to suggest various methods of controlling
with the help of various tools and the techniques that will get aggregate in the single decision
system of the support. The process of the project control is done so as to observe and find the
problems and issues on time so that preventive measures can be taken. The control and
management can be done by using various different types of risk management and project
management tools that are available on the internet for free as well as paid also. These tools help
in tracking the progress of the project as well as keep track of the timeline of the project so that
the project can get completed on time. Moreover, it keeps checking that all the team members are
equally contributing or not in the project. This can be done by uploading the work done by team
members on a regular basis so that the tracking of the overall team is possible. The control of the
project is necessary so that if any issues or flaws are identified then it can be resolved on time
(Barry et al., 2015).
Infrastructure requirements
The infrastructure required for developing the application that is based on the mobile application
of the education training that is beneficial for the students need various requirements in order to
fulfill the requirements of the infrastructure that helps in the overall development of the
application. When the companies try to create the platforms digitally those are open to the
customers and standardized the technologies of the web then they try to gather the benefits and
profits of the inexpensive and use elastic infrastructure that can be shared. The digital platform
helps in providing various benefits like removing the duplication as well as wastage and
communication get easy with the business employees as well as partners (Jahn et al., 2015).
For the development of this application, the designing part is performed by using the wireframes
that display all the functionalities and overall look of the application and this is created by using
a tool named as Balsamiq. In this tool the linking of every button is possible and if any changes
required prior to initializing the work then this is very helpful as changes can be done easily and
efficiently. Moreover, the use of coding language is performed in order to develop the
application after the designing phase. These coding languages may differ from the platform like
for iOs there is a different language required for the coding name as SWIFT and for Android,
various languages like C/C++, Java, python anything can be used. For creating the IDE of the
application for iOs the use of Delphi XE2 or Embarcadero is used but in case of Android, the use
of Eclipse or Android studio or IDEA can be used. In the case of iOs, cross platforms that are
available are iPhone, iPad, iPod, iTouch can be available but in the case of Android, the only
android is available.
After the creation there is a requirement of cloud technology so that a large amount of data can
be stored so the services of cloud are taken in consideration as infrastructure and use of services

like IaaS, SaaS and PaaS are used. The cloud technology for every company may differ as they
are further categorized in public, private, community as well as Hybrid.
Software design, development methodologies, and testing strategies
The software designing and development of this Edmodo application follow the rules and
strategy that are in project management and contains many other features which help in dealing
with the challenges that can be faced while development. The development of the application
initiate with the coding and programming of the application that is getting synchronized with the
testing phase and that helps in monitoring and controlling the project by the manager. While the
creation of the code the developer needs to perform the debugging for uploading a bug-free as
well as a clean and concise update for the testing of the environment. The methods used for the
development of the software are the guidelines that help in various steps like in performing
research, plan, design, develop, test and maintain the project. These activities can be performed
by using various software methods like waterfall, agile, prototype, extreme, feature driven and
rapid. All these are available and any one of them can be chosen according to the requirement
and agreement of the company. For the development of the Edmodo application, the use of agile
methodology is used and it is one of the most efficient methodologies. This method is easy and
flexible to use and is easily adaptable. This is a cost efficient methodology also as compared to
the waterfall and other methods. This is used as it provides quality by spending a large amount of
money. The companies can suffer by selecting the bad software development methods and
techniques and some organizations take the significant risks that can destruct the application
created by them. The agile methodology helps in testing the developed project by the help of
criteria that are defined properly and with full leveraged for implementing the regressions.
For the designing of the application there is a use of Balsamiq tool that helps in designing the
application and before the initialization of the development if any changes and updates are
needed then it can be performed on this tool so as to avoid any hassles during the development
phase of the project (White and Kapakos, 2017).

Internationalization for a global market
By the help of technology that is getting advanced help in providing the surfacing of the
marketplace across the globe. Educational service differs from other product but is a type of
service that has a huge impact on the globalization. Different software and applications result in
ina great impact on the globalization. So, the goal of the Edmodo application that is based on the
education and training service that provides to the students and other people for a materialistic
study with quality and immense knowledge is to expand the business and the application across
the world and contribute in globalization. This application has the capability to store the content
of almost all the competitive exams across the globe (Nawaz et al., 2019). For making it
international, the different exams like GRE, SAT’s, IELTS, TOEFL and many other exams that
are common among all the countries can be studied by this application so that the usability of the
application can be increased across the global market. The application can be updated so that
many other languages like French, Spanish, and German can be added in the application in order
to increase in expansion of the application. International exam connects the students with each
other and so do the Edmodo application that can help the students to share common knowledge
and allow them to participate in different quizzes that can enhance their preparation skills
(Hermanns and Lichter, 2017).
Social media integration strategies
The use of social media integration is a really smart and effective method to promote the
application and in publicizing of the application (Muzellec and O'Raghallaigh, 2018). The use
of social sites platforms like login into the application by using the credentials of social media

helps the students to share their knowledge and information on social media. The use of social
media in this application helps not the only business to get promoted among the students but also
helps the student to share their ideas and content with other students that can result in providing
the help to students. Social media has its own benefits as almost everyone is available on it and
can easily get updates of the new content and material that are added on the application.
Moreover, with some advantage there can be some disadvantages also like if the student login
into the application with the information of it personal account then this can break the
confidentiality of the student and if any hacker attacks on the privacy of the student then the
attacker can access the account of the student and can extract all the information of the student.
Also, the attacker can attack according to the shared post of the user by understanding the post
patterns and various risks can be faced by the student who uses the social media as a platform to
share its knowledge and login credentials. But avoiding these risks social media can help the
students like if one student post any doubt then other students get also get to know about
different questions and solutions are provided by many students of the doubt that enhance the
cooperation among students as well as spreading the knowledge that one student posses.
Risk management
The risk management of the application is a very important step and for this various risk
management software are used by any organization that is trustful and provides effective results.
These tools can identify the risks and provide the optimized solutions for rectifying those issues
as well as helps in predicting future issues. The risks that are identified are categorized into RBS
that is referred to as the risk breakdown structure and then the risk gets prioritize according to the
cause of destruction it can make. For the application Edmodo, there is a risk assessment that is
conducted and various identified risks are categorized by displaying about the severity of the risk
as well as their mitigations. The risk chart is given as:

Type of risk Severity Mitigation
Customer’s confidentiality
by logging in an application
using other social media
platforms can be risky.
High Use of session expiration
feature if the customer is
not using the application for
a long time.
During development,
improper communication
among team members.
Low Regular meetings and open
forum discussions.
Improper content in the
application
Medium Regular updates and
maintenance.
Security of the data of the
customers
Severe Personal login credentials
should be provided to every
customer.
Inappropriate answers and
doubts.
Low Answers should be filtered.
Improper functioning of the
application or sudden
shutdowns of the
applications
Medium Maintenance and removals
of bugs and other updates
should be performed on a
daily basis.
Poor responsiveness of the
application
Severe During development make
sure application is
responsive.
So these risks are categorized into four different categories as low, medium, high and severe.
These risks can harm the project and can result in a major loss of the company. The severe risks
that are related to the security and confidentiality of the customers as well as related to the
irresponsive design of the application can harm the application and cause losses to the
businesses. These risks need to be rectified as soon as possible that is why they are categorized
into severe risks. Next is a high risk in which rectifications are needed and they can also harm
the organization. These risks include the confidential data of the customer that can be resolved
by providing the personal logging credentials of every student. Next are the medium categorized
risks that include improper functioning of applications and unfiltered and irrelevant content in
the application that can waste the time of the student in filtering so this can be resolved by
filtering the answers properly by an expert to maintain the integrity of the application and at last
there come a low risk category that can be neglected as it does not affect that much on the
business. It contains improper communication among the team members of the project and this
can easily be resolved by conducting meetings among the team members. So all these risks need
to mitigate as avoiding these risks will enhance the quality of the application and help it to
enhance and burgeon across the globe.
Integration and deployment strategies
The Edmodo application is the application that will provide the convenience as well as the
efficiency and services that are superior and valuable for the business enterprise as well as for
Low
(can be
avoided)
Medium
(better to
resolve)
High
(need
rectification
)
Severe
(Immediate
rectification
)

students. It is said that less than half of the IT sector executive consider mobile application
integration with the business as a challenging task. The integration of the software is referred to
with the certifying infrastructure that is newly aligned along with the old system of the legacy of
the organization. It is recommended by professionals that for integrating the new systems there is
a need to replacement of the legacy systems, to update it or to create the system in the
middleware. The middleware like PHP and Java backend of the mobile system helps in
communication playing as a role of intermediary and helps communication among the mobile
application of the organization and the platform of the legacy of the organization. The benefits of
using the middleware are that in this there is no requirement of replacement or updates in the
system that already exists. It can help in processing as well as managing the tasks that are
complex as well as provide quality in communication through ERP or other portals used in
cooperation and allow the easy access of the applications by the students. The Edmodo education
application helps notes provider or teachers as the middleware as they provide and upload the
content in the application by logging in to the application (Burgess et al, 2015).
User acceptance and change management
The audience that is targeted by this application is all the students across the globe and the
demand of the application is increased by as the students need the platform to learn and get the
interactive way to study efficiently. The technology helps in studying the student with various
techniques and most of the students adopt the technology so that they can visualize the content
that they study in order to keep things remember for their exams. The user acceptance of the
Edmodo application is expected to be high and demandable. The students will accept this
application as the time they spend in gathering the notes and understanding them can be saved by
this application. Also, the understanding can be enhanced by every topic can be increased by the
videos and visuals that the application provides. The quizzes, as well as questionnaires, help in
improving and judging the knowledge of the students. So not only students but parents also
recommend using this application as it is cost efficient also as compared to the coaching and
institute that are costly and that too they are an additional cost along with the schools and
colleges. The teachers and the staff can also use this application so that they can teach valuable
content in the classes. The time of the teacher in making notes and distributing to the students
can also be saved and a number of topics can be covered in the class by saving the time of the
class. Overall the user acceptance is quite high as expected and to enhance it the use of buttons
that are properly coordinated and proper font size that is visible and aligned design is created in
the user interface of the application. In order to increase the user acceptance of the teachers,
personal login and password are provided to everyone that can secure the privacy and
confidentiality of the users.

Maintenance
The application that is used for mobile devices is important for providing an effective way for
students to study and gain knowledge (KARURU and OKOLA, 2015). There are various outlines
that are the essential parts in order to maintain the application on the mobile devices and they are
listed as:
 Management of the server
 Optimization of the performance
 Scalability as well as infrastructure
 Integration with the technology
 Performance in the market
The maintenance of the above-mentioned points are discussed here in detail along with its
characteristics and benefits:
Points Characteristics Benefits
Management of the server Back up of the servers, Server
load analysis and Management of
systems and responses.
Backups on a regular basis,
regular analysis of the load of the
server, For the proper responses
on-site support of IT is needed.
Optimization of the
performance
High speed of the application
usability
Caches on local site and
compression of file enhance the
efficiency of the application.
Scalability and the
infrastructure
The adaptable back end server
for applying the changes and
framework development
Different language enhances the
scalability and efficiency of the
application. For different
platforms, the use of different
languages is used.
Integration with technology Regular updates of the
Application Programming
Interface
There is no requirement to take
care of the regular updates that
come for an Application
programming interface.
Performance in the market User acceptance as well as
behaviors, Updates of the
application and proper testing of
the application.
Proper testing of the application
after launching the application in
the market. Proper analysis of the
user acceptance and their
feedbacks are taken that helps in
enhancing the design and
features available in the
application for increasing the
user acceptance across the world.