“KDMV Sports Desk” Web Based System for School Sports & Athlete Management

Abstract

“Sports Desk KDMV” web-based Sports and Athlete Management system has been developed to overcome the difficulties and inefficiencies caused by the current manual system. This system enables remote and robust access to all the information related to sport and athletes in the school where, students handling, sports handling, events handling, instructors handling, registering for tournaments conducted by the school, email notification regarding sports activities of the student to the parent/guarding and report handling will be carried out in an automated process. User access levels are limited and access restrictions have been added to the different type of users of the system. Any system user will be able to access the system via internet. Users will be able to access student information, practice schedules, information about sports and information on tournaments depends on the user access levels. Existed manual systems had drawbacks such as miscommunication among parties which led to delays in the process, had unnecessary amount of paper works and paper trials, poor information flow to external parties of the school regarding sports activities(parents, instructors), unable to reach information and receive updates in timely manner and inaccurate history information on student’s sports activities. System has been implemented using php language while using other technologies such as jQuery, javascript, CSS, Ajax and MySQL where system has a flat file architecture following Agile development methodology. System requirements were gathered from system stakeholders using methods such as questioners, interviews and observations. Apache webserver has been used as the server while phpMyAdmin has been used to develop the database of the system improving agility. The project has been completed successfully along with user satisfaction where client requirements of a web based robust and efficient system to manage student, sports, tournaments, practices and instructor information in a centralized manner while having the ability to maintain and obtain reports of current and history data, have been fulfilled.