Assuring flexibility to educational platforms Case study: UniBuc Virtual Campus

In today Information society we confront rapidly changes in most of the fields, and especially in the IT field. In order to keep our competivity and to respond permanently the needs of our students is a must assuring flexibility to the E-learning solution that we use. The Department for Open and Distance Learning of University of Bucharest has developed an educational platform, UniBuc Virtual Campus. In this paper it will be presented the manner this portal was designed for further changes. First time the platform was introduced to the use of ODL Department's students (June 2002) there was available only 6 services. Meanwhile they were designed and developed another features thanks to continuous feedback from our students, tutors and course managers. Today, UniBuc Virtual Campus represents a strong virtual learning environment which integrates 16 tools for communication, management, eLearning and feedback. Some of this tools have multiple improvements comparing the first version. These were possible thanks to the IT specialists that designed the portal from the beginning so that it easily support further extensions and modifications.