Students Portal for Advanced Technological Institute Mattakkuliya

Abstract

ABSTRACT Advanced Technological Institute (ATI), Mattakkuliya has been the pioneer in producing incorporated engineers for the local and international industry. Five Higher national diploma in engineering (HNDE) courses are offered by the institute under three main Engineering Departments (Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical). The main Engineering fields consist of several sub disciplines as follows and the students are given the opportunity to specialize in their chosen option. All the HNDE programs are conducted in semester system in English medium included with 3 years (6 semesters) academic period and minimum 6 months (1 semester) industrial training according to the new syllabus. Regular industrial visits are also organized as possible. But until now ATI has not used modern technology for sharing notes, delivering assignments, publish exam result. Advanced Technological Institute’s lectures are delivering assignment manually in the lecture hall. As well as students handover their answers for assignment manually. End semester exam results publish on notice board. Therefore students (especially who are in industrial training) have to visit ATI after release the exam result. As well as time table also publish on notice board Students portal for Advanced Technological Institute Mattakkuliya is developed according to client requirements of prevent current manual systems’ draw backs. This system has provided many facilities such as register new students, register staff, create course, manage subjects, add time table, view time table, add results, view results, publish assignment, submit answer of assignment, print attendance sheet etc. The student portal has been developed based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) framework. The system was developed using PHP (PHP Hypertext Processor) open source server side scripting language. MySQL was used as the database tool for designing the database. Apache web server was chosen to run the system. Additionally, Sublime Text 3 was chosen as the coding tool and Adobe Photoshop CS5 was chosen as the interface designing tool in the main stages of the developing.