25 March 2002

Exam Centre on the skoool.ie website www.skoool.ie is created and deployed on Epiowave, a suite of products from Epionet. skoool.ie is a first-of-its-kind interactive resource providing free online courses to Irish students and teachers. It provides valuable resources to help students learn interactively, revise for their exams and explore the wider world of education.

Exam Centre, one of the main sections of www.skoool.ie, covers the core subjects at both Leaving Cert and Junior Cert level. Past paper analysis, revision and study guides as well as tips and FAQs are provided. The clever study timetable wizard provides a quick and easy way to allow students to plan and manage their study time.

Epiowave consists of EpioBusiness Server and EpioBuilder. EpioBusiness Server powers the Exam Centre and provides enhanced performance, complete application statistics and enriched administration capabilities for the application. The Exam Centre application itself was created using EpioBuilder.

EpioBusiness Server is primarily for configuring, deploying and administering business solutions in web-based environments, across Intranets, Extranets and public facing Internet. It consists of sophisticated System Services, to manage common system elements, such as caching, security, logging etc. and. Application Services managing functionality common to all applications.

EpioBuilder is a set of tools and services to help manage many of the repetitive and time-consuming tasks associated with developing web systems. The EpioBuilder delivers an overall architecture for building enterprise web solutions. This advanced technology is for developers working with component-based solutions and web services.