'Al Adwaa' chooses ECC to host its Educational Services Portal

The portal includes on-line facilities to each subject in the Egyptian curriculum. These facilities are designed and updated for the academic year 2002/2003. 'Al Adwaa' expects hundreds of simultaneous users accessing the site o benefit from its rich content. ECC was chosen by AlAdwaa to host its portal due to its unparalleled performance in the region, availability, and support especially at peak usage. ECC's hosting competence has been practically demonstrated during this year's 'General Education Exam Results' (Thanaweya Amma). ECC was the only host in Egypt that achieved ZERO downtime, handling more than 5000 simultaneous sessions.

The extremely rich content site of AlAdwaa will contain:

1. On-line access to 'Al Adwaa' Educational Series: enabling
students to browse, and download the electronic version (e-books) of the best selling curriculum support book series.

2. Lesson explanation: This section contains a complete
comprehensive explanation of all lessons in the Egyptian official curriculum in simple educational ways. In fact, it uses animation, audiovisual methods, pictures, exercises, diagrams, statistics and graphics to make sure that the student enjoys the process of learning. Furthermore, everything is indexed according to the educational units.

3. Question Bank: This is a specialized educational bank containing lots of questions and their model answers, which are organized and indexed. All content have been authored and edited by the top-notch Egyptian educational experts. In this section the student can read questions and their model answers or send them to a friend.

4. Self-testing section: The student can find here many interactive questions indexed and organized according to the official curriculum sections. When the user selects a chapter, a test of 20 questions appears. As soon as he/she finishes answering it, an evaluation to his performance appears with model answers. Through this section the student can get a real evaluation to his knowledge in all subjects. The self-testing section is updated monthly according to the portion that is assigned to each month.

5. Exam Bank: This section contains all the previous tests that were prepared by Egyptian schools, with an easy way to search and find the needed tests. The important service that 'Al Adwaa' added to this section is the possibility to collect all the questions that are based on any assigned chapter in the curriculum. This new service is offered before the end of each semester.

6. Lesson Summary: At the end of each lesson, the student will find
a summary and a list of the main points to make sure that he did not miss anything.