Development of Education Portal using Microsoft Windows SharePoint – An Overview

There has been a huge, worldwide explosion in the use of the Internet. The internet has provided great opportunities for enterprise and education industry integration. Many applications such as e-commerce, corporate portals and e-learning are mushrooming and emerging in high speed to formulate and gauge the online mode of delivering, sharing and collaborating information [5]. As such, construction or development of new service require major programming effort, thus is time consuming and demands considerable developer expertise. Hence, planning for a web portal implementation is essential for the future. An appropriate frontward step forUNITEN is to initiate an internet and user-friendly environment for elevating teaching and learning experiences. In this paper, we explore, identify and analyze the requirements for a basic educational portal framework at the College of Information Technology (CoIT), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN). Other highlights of this paper will be the benefits and tools provided by the portal environment to accomplish the institution needs to strive towards a liberal and eccentric education. Consequently, this paper also recommends a basic template for UNITEN education portal