Crystal Reports

When you check the current Administration part of the site, you can view the results. System Design results is available at this link

http://www.m-assessment.info/admin/SystemDesignGrades.aspx

It does not look good actually. I use a Data Grid to view the results. I thought about using Crystal Reports to visualize data in a good looking format. I designed the report, and when it came to deploying the reports I was surprised that the server does not deply Crystal Reports. Actually the server does not deply neither Crystal Reports nor Reporting Server. I do not call this a design bug, I'd rather think about it more as a 'Planning Bug' because I have not checked the AMS requirements thouroughly and have not picked a suitable server to host AMS. I am still thinking either I will continue AMS, so I will re-build the system from the very beginning. I am thinking about assigning one of the graduation projects groups of next year to AMS, and when I re-think about it, I figure out that AMS has achieved the required task of it, and it shall retire right now. The thing was: Utilizing SOA in systems won't affect system performance and/or user completion time. I'd rather leave e-Learning tasks to e-Learning Unit of the University, so I am really thinking about spending more time with guys in the e-Learning Unit "as I am going to stay in Egypt for a while".

I believe Moodle holds features richer than AMS. AMS might turn to be a history soon. If this will be the case, sure I will write a separate entry announcing this.