Hi guys

I have been gathering ideas for my final year project. The project title is "Online Entrance Coaching". That is kind of virtual classroom. Front end is: JAVA for Web Applications. And the backend is: MySQL.

The basic idea is, institutions that offers entrance coaching could register an account with us(our website). Then they will be issued an account(like a group in Facebook or a Community in Facebook) and through that, he(the Admin) could allow their students to register an account under that institution.

Then the students will be able to attend exams(multiple choice questions), know their ranking in various tests he had participated, report cards, etc.
Also, they would be able to access the question bank(which will be a common question bank for all institutions, means a central question bank). They would also be able to do live chat with the lecturers (institutions registered with us, could allow lecturers to register an account), ask questions and clear doubts, etc.

At present only, only text chat is considered.

In my opinion, it's a very small project. Don't you think so ? I'm planning to add virtual class room, but I don't have any idea.

I'm having some questions and I need your support.
  1. I wish to implement one-to-one voice chat. ie, teacher-student. Will it be tough to implement in JSP ? Do you have any resource or links that could help in accomplishing this ?
  2. I do have some accounts with those who provide PHP and ASP.Net hosting. But don't have JSP hosting account ! Do you know any cheap hosting providers(but should be good in support) that provides JSP hosting ? I have talked to Hostgator and they said they will provide this only in their VPS account which is about 17$/month
  3. I wish to include a online whiteboard, where students could attend the online classes conducted by the lecturer where he would write down the various derivation or equations or forumulas and all the students attending that session will be able to see what he's writing down or drawing. Do you have any suggestions for this option or anything that is freely available ?


Thanks