Course management system for philippine college of science
- 1. Course Management System for Philippine College of Science and Technology By: Ferdinand V. Rabina, MIT
- 2. Executive Summary Learning management systems (LMS) are content publishing platforms that allow publishers and educational institutions to create online educational courses. LMS systems can create presentations, manage classroom courses, track subscriber progress and create customized training programs. LMS software applications allow businesses and educational institutions to connect with their employees and students (Kuykendall, 2013). A Course Management System (CMS) is a collection of software tools providing an online environment for course interactions. A CMS typically includes a variety of online tools and environments, such as: (a) An area for faculty posting of class materials such as course syllabus and handouts. (b) An area for student posting of papers and other assignments. (c) A grade book where faculty can record grades and each student can view his or her grades. (d) An integrated email tool allowing participants to send announcement email messages to the entire class or to a subset of the entire class. (e) A chat tool allowing synchronous communication among class participants. (f) A threaded discussion board allowing asynchronous communication among participants.
- 3. Problem Description The major problem of the study are the requirements to develop, design and deploy the Course Management System for Philippine College of Science and Technology which provides the faculty members and students more interactive way of teaching and learning.
- 4. Purpose and Description The College aimed to provide the best education to its constituents. This mission has driven the institution to look for other innovative yet inexpensive approaches to deliver quality education to its students. For this reason, this study has a major impact on the following entities to the role they play in the system. Philippine College of Science and Technology. This study becomes one of the realizations of the College to provide quality education to the students. The student’s capabilities manifest the quality of education that a school offers. With the school as the catalyst of education and the students as its products, every school as the catalyst of education and the students as its products. The system promotes quality educational resource for learning and teaching that motivates the students in their learning process.
- 5. Objectives The study aimed to develop, design and deploy a study entitled Course Management System for Philippine College of Science and Technology. Specifically, it sought to attain the following objectives: 1. To describe the data requirements in the development of the proposed system as per stakeholders: a. administrator; b. faculty member; and c. student; 2. to identify the functional and non-functional requirements of the system; 3. to describe the hardware and software requirements of proposed system; and 4. to test the usability of the system.
- 6. Conceptual Framework The researcher used Input-Process-Output (IPO) method in the development of the system. The input variables include the appropriate learning style presentation for each topic in the syllabus of the elective courses for Information Technology and Computer Science students in terms of faculty and student preferences; the methodology that should be used in the development of the study; the functional and non functional requirements of the system; and the security and control measures of the study. The process mainly includes the phases of the chosen software development which is the ADDIE model. This model paved the way for the development of the courseware. It has five phases; analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The output of the study was the Course Management System for Philippine College of Science and Technology.
- 8. System Architecture Non-functional requirements may influence the rest of the analysis process, but often do so only indirectly; non-functional requirements are primarily used in the design phase when decisions are made about the user interface, the hardware and software, and the system’s underlying architecture (Wixom, 2010). Stated below are the non-functional requirements of the developed system: Usabilty. The system is easy to learn use or operate by the users in order to accomplished task successfully. Security. It reflects on the ability of the system to filter or validate the user trying to access the information. In order to provide security, the system should be able to establish a hierarchy in terms of accessing information, meaning there should be a different access level, to which the information be accessed. Reliability. According to Sommerville (2004), System Reliability greatly depends on its component reliability. Reliability determines the ability of the system to provide the functionalities expected or agreed upon with the stakeholders. The system is reliable if it able to meet the specifications / requirements needed by the user.
- 9. Software Implementation Schedule Strategy Activities Person’s Involved Duration Approval from the president Letters for the President Request Researchers/Developer, Administrator 1 Day Data Gathering and Analysis Survey, interview, ocular inspection, research Faculty and Students 30 days Software Development Coding, Data Analysis, Alpha Testing Developers 90 days Testing Beta Test form, System Evaluation form Developers, System Users 30days Deployment Hardware and software requirements Developers, System Users 15 days Maintenance Utilization of actual system, Bugs reports, user feedback Developers, System Users indefinite
- 10. Implementation Results Usability of the Course Management System for Philippine College of Science and Technology To evaluate the usability of the system the researcher conducted a usability test with all the stakeholders involved. Respondents of the usability test consisted the two (2) course administrators, five (5) faculty members and fifty (53) students. The result of the usability test shows the overall evaluation of the stakeholders toward the system and includes functional and non –functional requirements tests. The tables and information shown below presents the result of the acceptability test conducted.
- 11. Recommendations For future enhancement it is recommended that the system will be integrated into web-based platform so it can be accessed easily anywhere. Web service technology has emerged as a new paradigm of distributed computing (Mohammed and Hussein, 2010). Upon the implementation of the system, it is recommended to upgrade the current computer setup. It is recommended that the needed training for the faculty will be conducted. This is to ensure that end users will get familiar on the usages of the different features of the system. It is recommended that other course must be included in the system. In addition, the courseware must be equipped with quizzes, assignments and other activities in a folder. There must be also database to save user information so that all the marks gain from the test can be stored.