Acceptance of cloud systems as the future has given way to a large number of cloud application installations. They have their presence across domains be it banking, gaming, education and others. A cloud based solution brings down the cost of ownership and maintenance for the host organization. For the users a resilience to use any type of end device being it a workstation, laptop, netbook or even a smartphone to access the application. A typical cloud based LMS was developed with appropriate pedagogy to teach programming courses. Necessary software required are made available on the cloud, with a bare minimum hardware spec requirement at the user end. The paper highlights the adaptability to such pure online course by the students and their learning outcomes. The paper also discusses the issues and challenges both in terms of technology and pedagogy which needs to be addressed when such online courses are planned.

In the recent past Internet has become the de-facto communication network. It is being prominently used by Telecommunication, Television and other such networks as a carrier network. The current Internet technology has matured enough to support both Non-Real Time and Real-Time Streaming applications. Recently, even the speed of the access network through which an end user accesses the Internet has also increased substantially. All these have given way to newer Applications for being ported on to the Internet. A similar attempt has been made here to extend the Networking Lab infrastructure to students who have enrolled for their higher education through Distance mode. These students who are spread across the country are able to access the Network Lab to perform their Lab Exercises Live on Network devices as part of their Practical Course.