Question

"SEU Examinations System(SES),"automation of the examination activities of SEU that aims to bring in a centralized system that will ensure the operations in the context of an examination that can manage effectively. This system allows students to register the courses every semester themselves into the system by providing the details or by sharing details to admin at each branch. If the student is doing it by their own, then the system should check the login credentials and then the user can view all his registered courses for that semester along with the other arrear courses from previous semesters. The same is done by providing their student details and all the necessary information like Name, email, registered courses, semester, and so forth. The submitted details are then entered by admin into the SES system to enable the student to attend the examination and also creates a login id and password for them. After creating the login, the system mails the link of soft copy to every student who has registered successfully. Students containing the link in their mail can log in, and view the details of the courses and with the same login credentials they can log in into the system to modify or update their information like phone number, email-id, and so forth. Admin is also responsible for both publishings the grades and the generation of Grade sheets for every registered student after the exams completion. The course instructors are allowed to enter the marks into the system for the courses they teach in respective semesters. Once the teacher fixes the grades, then they have to approve it for admin verification. There will be a total of three to six semesters where each semester contains a maximum of seven subjects. Admin will verify the marks and grades of every student using the system’s GUI or via Database entry and then finally the student grades will be published into their login separately. Students can also request for revaluation of their exam papers through this system. On receiving the revaluation request, the system sends the notification to the concerned instructor and the final grades will be displayed to the students. The system will support 250 concurrent users and can easily integrate with the learning management system (Blackboard) that the university is planning to purchase. Thus, on the whole, it serves as a completely automated software which handles every tedious and complicated process handled during the examination times by covering for the most significant drawbacks of a manual system, namely speed, precision, and simplicity. A centralized system will ensure that the activities in the context of an examination can be managed effectively, while also making it more accessible and convenient for both students and staff.

Part 5:The question of this part analyzes the students’ understanding in analyzing the given scenario and use brainstorming to apply and reflect concepts studied in chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 19 and 22 of IT242.

1. Suppose you have been assigned, as a group, the tasks of project manager and software engineers to adopt a process model to develop the scenario given in the case study, which process model do you choose? Give one suggestion or recommendation to "SES" scenario that may help the university in applying the new plan. Explain your answer. (5 Marks)

Answer 1

The SES is a system that automates the examination services and also give the learners the privilege to attend the virtual classes from there places, so I think the model that will suit this system the most is Incremental development model as we can provide the students with the facilities and then take their feedback for furtjer features and improve the system accordingly.

A recommendation for the system would be to add a Discussion Forum where the students can interact with their course teacher, ask for doubts, interact with fellow students or share their views on any topic. Having a Discussion Forum is very useful for students as well as teachers as they will get to know how much a student is learning and how much their hard work is helping the student.