STUDENTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM For SRI LANKA INSTITUTE of ARCHITECTS

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (SLIA) is the professional institution incorporated by an Act of Parliament empowered with the authority to regulate the architectural profession and education in Sri Lanka. The Board of Architectural Education (BAE) is the SLIA arm that manages the whole spectrum of activities related to education. In this process the BAE conducts lectures and examinations at the professional level for around 100 prospective architects each year. With the student-numbers increasing at a high rate, the BAE wishes to implement a centralized system to manage and monitor the students’ academic and practical performances over several years. After analyzing the current system and the processes followed at BAE, it was identified that the processes in place are handled manually using cumbersome paperwork. Thus it is very difficult to maintain proper records on students’ admissions, attendance, payments, examination records and performing relevant activities in more efficient manner. A proposal was presented to the client by describing the possibility of implementing a web based Students Management System which will help to resolve the problems of the current system. The scope of the proposed system has been outlined with several modules such as students’ admission process handling module, payments handling and notification module, attendance handling module, examination records and course records maintaining module and reports generating module. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) was identified as the most suitable software development methodology for developing the Students Management System. XAMPP, NetBeans IDE, MySQL Workbench, HTML, CSS, StarUML and Bootstrap admin templates have been used as the tools and technologies in the design and implementation of the solution. After completing a successful software development process, the implemented system was installed at the client’s location for user acceptance testing and facilitating user trainings. The feedback received from the client is really positive and they anticipate the new system would immensely help for streamlining the organizational procedures progressively.