- Results Are Captured Per Course A Course Belongs To A Department And A Department Belongs To A Faculty Within The Unive 1 (125.25 KiB) Viewed 38 times
Results are captured per Course, a Course belongs to a Department and a Department belongs to a Faculty within the University. Students can enroll for more than one Course and Online Technical Assistants are allowed to facilitate many Courses during the course of the year. The Online University Platform should also have a fuctionality for students to register, check course costs, download proof of registration, update contact details, and download statement of account compiled by finance. All the above functionalities will be delivered in the first phase of the Project. Quality is valued at the University and no project is approved if this aspect cannot be demonstrated. Before deploying the system in Production, the project team will embark on a data take-on exercise because an operational system requires a fully populated database to support ongoing processing. As stated, that Quality is valued at the University, the development team is forced to apply strict rules around Unit Testing and Integration Testing. Performance or stress testing report will form part of the approval process before the system is deployed into production. To save money on database licencing the University mostly uses open source software and relational database management system (DBMS). MySQL is a free and open-source DBMS to be used during the Project. All the databases on MySQL including the back-ups should be encrypted. After the deployment of the system in production, the project team will embark on the second phase of the Project. Other functionalities of the Online University Platform that will be catered for in the second phase, are the ability for Students to lodge disputes, view results, rate the course content, like the content, comment on the content and chat with Online Technical