Abstract :

Students’ final year projects are often characterized by poor quality, duplication of existing works, prolonged research writing and late submission. This TetFund sponsored research project: Web-based Student Project Management System, is designed with the latest technologies to mitigate these challenges. The project is designed to provide continuous, timeless and boundless communication between project coordinators and students, students and their supervisors, as well as students researching in the same field. The project automates routine project activities such as listing and selection of project topics, approval of project topics, project report writing guidelines, student/supervisor correspondence, assessment and report submission, and finally report storage and management. Thus, it will eliminate the duplication and recycling of existing projects by making sure that such projects are rejected automatically at the very point of submission for approval, as well as guarantee high quality and timely completion and submission of students’ projects. Agile software design approach, due to its high degree of stakeholder involvement and incremental testing of functionalities, was deployed to design the project. Also the system was developed using Java programming language with Apache Tomcat Server and MySQL as the Database Management System.

---

Keywords :

Final Year Project, Online Communication, Project Management, Project Supervision, Research Writing

---

References :

1. Oxford. (n.d.). Project. In Oxford English.com dictionary. Retrieved September 12, 2021 from
https://www.oxford.com/dictionary/project
2. Safieddine, F. (2015) Student’s guide: final year project thesis. (K.Lomidze, Ed) New York: CreativeSpace Publishing.
3. Kamarudin D. (2019). Applying skills and knowledge in final year projects. New Straits Tmes
4. Oxford English Dictionaries (2021). Retrieved 05/03/2021.
5. National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) Curriculum. (2019, April 21).
6. UCL Education Strategy (2019). Research and project supervision (all levels): an introduction. Retrieved September 25, 2021 from https://www.ucl.ac.uk
7. Unal, Z., and Unal, A. (2011). Evaluating and comparing the usability of web-based course management systems. Journal of Information Technology Education, 10, 19-38 View publication
8. Bremer, D, Bryant, R. (2005) A Comparison of two learning management Systems: Moodle vs Blackboard, Proceedings of the 18
9. Dougiamas, M. & Taylor, P. C. (2003). Moodle: Using learning communities to create an open source course management system. Proceedings of the EDMEDIA 2003 Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, .Blackboard Inc. (2013) “Blackboard”, URL: http://www.blackboard.com/.
10. ClockingIT.com (2008). ClockingIT free time-tracking hosting, URL: http://www.clockingit.com/
11. Clement R. & Bounds P. (2013). Making Connections between Final Year Students and Potential Project Supervisors, Proceedings of the HEA STEM Learning and Teaching Conference.
12. Bakar M. A., Jailani N., Shukur Z., Yatim N. F. M. (2011). Final Year Supervision Management System as a Tool for Monitoring Computer Science Projects. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 18, 273–281
13. HKU CS (2014). Hong Kong University Project Management System, URL: https://community.cs.hku.hk/web/csis0801/