Abstract: Current approaches create web based simulated lab type of setups for students/learners in which lab environment is created according to course of student. However, these conventional approaches require student systems to have some basic setup for working on virtual labs. Few available techniques also provide cloud-based virtual labs in which private cloud is created but they use open-source tool for creation. Further, available virtual lab techniques do not provide seamless integration with LMS. Present disclosure provides methods and systems for provisioning virtual lab with learning management system. The system provides virtual desktop that is created on an infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The learner desktop is accessed by a user/learner from respective existing computer system via LMS account. The virtual desktop includes hardware configuration and software packages required to solve one or more problems or perform one or more experiments related to course for which learners have enrolled in LMS.

Abstract: A system and protocol for integrating a plurality of service providers across a plurality of domains with an application using a hosted platform have been described. The system involves registration of metadata corresponding to the service providers, their services, their types and their set of parameters. When a new integrating application is provided, then it also includes a wrapper protocol. The wrapper protocol includes six predefined methods. The hosted platform in turn can execute the request of the “integrating application” by internally connecting with the plurality of service providers across a plurality of domains and provide the output in a standard format. Since the wrapper protocol standardizes the format of communication (input & output), hence it reduces effort substantially at the end of the integrating application. The ability of the platform to increase the list of service providers is augmented as it relies on metadata for request generation and invocation.

Abstract: A system and protocol for integrating a plurality of service providers across a plurality of domains with an application using a hosted platform have been described. The system involves registration of metadata corresponding to the service providers, their services, their types and their set of parameters. When a new integrating application is provided, then it also includes a wrapper protocol. The wrapper protocol includes six predefined methods. The hosted platform in turn can execute the request of the “integrating application” by internally connecting with the plurality of service providers across a plurality of domains and provide the output in a standard format. Since the wrapper protocol standardizes the format of communication (input & output), hence it reduces effort substantially at the end of the integrating application. The ability of the platform to increase the list of service providers is augmented as it relies on metadata for request generation and invocation.