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International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
Volume: 02 Issue: 07 | Oct-2015

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E-Learning with Desktop Sharing
Preet Shah1, Omkar Salgaonkar2, Darshan Danani3, Jignasha Dalal4
Student, Computer Engineering, K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology, Maharashtra,
India
2 Student, Computer Engineering, K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology, Maharashtra,
India
3 Student, Computer Engineering, K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology, Maharashtra,
India
4 Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering, K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology,
Maharashtra, India
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---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------1. INTRODUCTION
Abstract - Today wide ranges of opportunities are
provided by internet, and the blend of internet along
with computer has brought some drastic changes in
various day to day activities, especially in the field of
education. This combination of internet and computer
is reshaping the older learning system into new
learning system known as “E-learning”. This project
presents the idea of E-learning that uses the
networking technologies that help to provide a new
teaching-learning experience. It intends to enhance the
teaching experience by enabling sharing of teacher’s
desktop among students and also transferring voice of
teacher over connected student’s computer. This will
aid the faculty to teach one particular concept to a
number of students who are sitting in different labs and
in addition to this, attendance of the students can also
be maintained automatically. This project also aims at
providing facility to all the connected students where
they can submit their given programs and practical
work done online. The application is going to be
developed using Java programming language with the
use of Java Swing, thus making our application robust,
portable, platform independent and distributed. Thus,
it is an inexpensive and efficient way to deliver a quality
education that not only helps teachers to teach easily to
a class of large number of students at once but also
student’s in submitting their assignments online. Our
application can, not only be used in educational
institutes but can also be used in various industries and
organization for explaining various topics or
demonstrating projects.

Key Words: Authenticate, LAN, VOIP, VNC

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As we know a teacher has to explain a program or a
concept to the entire batch that may consists of large
number of students. The problem is that teacher may not
be able to explain it to all the students at once and thus the
teacher has to teach repeatedly to a group of students.
This becomes a tedious job and it is also very time
consuming because it may take a considerable amount of
the lecture’s time till the teacher explains the whole batch.
So in order to save time and reduce teacher’s efforts we
propose an application to develop called “E-Learning with
Desktop Sharing”.

Fig -1: Desktop Sharing
In our application the teacher’s desktop will be shared on
each student’s desktop. In this way teacher can explain the
entire program or application in one go to all the students
.All the operations that teacher performs on her desktop
will be visible to all the students. So this reduces the
efforts and time required for teaching. Moreover our
application will also provide features like file transfer,
remote shut down, feedback after lectures and also
attendance management. This paper is sectioned into four
chapters. The first chapter being the introduction itself,
the second chapter explains the existing system. The third
chapter explains the proposed system for e-learning. The
fourth chapter being the last chapter of this paper
concludes the topic along with the references.

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2. EXISTING SYSTEM
2.1 RealVNC
RealVNC is a great application that enables you to
remotely access and control your devices wherever you
are and whenever you need. [1] In order to control one’s
desktop screen remotely, the RealVNC software provides a
server and client application. RealVNC has a very large
user set, from individuals to multi-national companies.

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share desktop with as many people the user wants at free
of cost.
In order to use ScreenLeap, user has to grant service
permission to run ScreenLeap on the browser. The service
is completely set-up free and user have to just visit
website of ScreenLeap and click “Share your screen”, and
it is done, the screen can now be shared. This process will
generate a link which can be shared to others to whom the
user wants to share the desktop screen. This link will be
active only till the screen sharing session is active. [2]

Fig -2: RealVNC Logo [1]
It has following limitations:
1. A major concern with RealVNC is setting up the
software. RealVNC has a server and client component. In
order to connect to the machine, a user will have to
properly configure the server. Thus, RealVNC is not newuser friendly.
2. Features not available with free version:
2.1 Printing: Enable connected users to print files directly
to printers connected to their own computers.
2.2 File Transfer: Enable connected users to transfer files
in both direction, and also share with other users
connected at the same time.
2.3 Chat: Enable connected users to talk to other users
connected at the same time.
2.4 System Authentication: Authorize users to connect
using the already-familiar credentials of their own user
accounts on a computer.
3. Pricing:
3.1 Open Edition: Available for free.
3.2 Personal: $30 (approximate Rs. 1916) per desktop.
3.3 Enterprise: $44 (approximate Rs. 2811) per desktop.
4. Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP): RealVNC does not
support VOIP for the computer machines of any platform.
5. Not useful for E-Learning: Lacks features like feedback
and attendance management.

Fig -3: ScreenLeap Logo [2]
It has following limitations:
1. No File Transfer option available.
2. Entirely based on internet, if internet is down or not
working then ScreenLeap fails to work. Thus, ScreenLeap
does not operate over Local Area Network.
3. Free version does not support VOIP for the computer
machines of any platform.
4. Does not support feedback for the lectures.

2.3 TeamViewer
TeamViewer is a software application used essentially for
remote control and desktop sharing, online meetings, web
conferencing and transfer of files. To start the connection
and the routing of traffic between the local client and the
remote host machine, TeamViewer uses one of the servers
of TeamViewer.com in default configuration. [3]

2.2 ScreenLeap
There are many applications that allow you to share your
desktop with others, but ScreenLeap is a web application
that simplifies screen sharing even further. One can use
ScreenLeap without downloading and installing anything
or even without signing up for an account. A user can

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Fig -4: TeamViewer Logo [4]

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The machines should have TeamViewer running in order
to connect to another computer. Administrator access is
required to install TeamViewer, but once installed it can
be run by any user. On running TeamViewer program, it
provides an option to enter partner ID and password.
Entering ID and password are mandatory to establish a
connection between the computers. The user that wants
control of another user’s machine requires another user's
ID and password. The presenter can give the Meeting ID to
all the users intended to be the participants for the
meeting.

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that allows direct access to teachers’ terminal from
student terminal.

Fig -6: Work flow of proposed system

Fig -5: TeamViewer Main Window [4]
It has following limitations:
1. Business packages are quite expensive to buy and
Various Features are not available in Free Version of
Software.
2. After using the software for around 5 hours, you will get
disconnected and not be allowed for some time so it
becomes difficult for remote support.
3. The program needs a high speed continuous Internet
connection, otherwise it would be troublesome and
frustrating to use.
4. Not suitable for Educational purpose, not user friendly.
5. Pricing: Business – Rs.28, 500, Premium – Rs.57, 100
and Corporate – Rs.1, 43,100
The next chapter provides a brief overview of the
proposed system for e-learning.

3. PROPOSED SYSTEM
Our project is motivated by the idea to provide a learning
environment which utilizes the potentials of the
Networking Technologies [5]. It overcomes various
limitation of existing system mentioned in above literature
review make our system suitable for teaching purposes.
Our work proposes a peer-to-peer remote access
laboratory architecture where participants are teacher
and student. All the system is tied to a local area network
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The proposed features are:
A. Desktop Sharing
Desktop sharing will enable the teachers to explain the
concepts and diagrams to the students from teacher’s
computer itself. All the students would be able to view and
learn this right from their own computer.
B. Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)
The VOIP feature will transmit the voice from teacher’s
computer to each and every student’s computer. Thus, a
teacher can explain the concepts to students by speaking
on his/her computer that would be audible on all the
student’s computer in the network.
C. Program Submission
Once the students have created the code for the program,
they can submit it to the teacher by using this feature.
Thus, the teacher can receive the program from all the
students in the lecture. The teacher can then evaluate the
programs and come to know what mistakes a student has
made or how much they have understood the topics that
are explained.
D. Remote Shutdown
After the practical lecture, the teacher can remotely
shutdown the computers which students many times
forget to do and the computers are therefore left turned
on. This feature helps to avoid such situation where the
teacher can remotely shutdown the computers simply

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with a few mouse clicks, thereby preventing the wastage
of electricity.
E. Attendance Management
In any lecture, attendance is very much important. This
feature will help the teachers to mark attendance of those
students who are present and connected to the teacher’s
computer. The proposed system also aims to provide a
monthly report on the student’s attendance.

4. CONCLUSIONS
The aim of this project is to develop a peer-to-peer system
that can be used by teachers to teach many numbers of
students at once. The design philosophy of the system is to
develop an easy to use, scalable peer-to peer desktop
sharing system. We intend to develop this application
using Java, thereby developing a portable and platform
independent software. Thus, teaching in practical lectures
can me made much easy and time saving with the help of
desktop sharing, explaining with voice over IP, determine
how much the student has understood by evaluating the
programs that they can submit using the program
submission feature and also manage the class attendance
using this intended software. The proposed application
will work for each and every single practical lecture within
a Local Area Network with no need of an active internet
connection.

REFERENCES
[1] RealVNC, www.realvnc.com
[2] Alan Henry, lifehacker.com/5897031/screenleapoffers-one-click-screen-sharing-for-free-no-sign-upsor-installs-required
[3] Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamViewer
[4] TeamViewer, www.teamviewer.com
[5] Ternauciuc and D. Ivanc, “Remote desktop solutions
used in e-Learning scenarios”, 6th IEEE International
Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence
and Informatics, Timisoara, Romania, May 2011
[6] Wikipedia,en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_re
mote_desktop_software

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