Abstract

Title of the project: University Technology Services

Existing System:
Presently in lots of repudiated universities like IITs and NITs professors are assigning
some assignments to their students for research purpose, later those assignments will be
corrected by professors and marks will be allotted to them but that is happening manually
only. So every time students and professors must be interact manually, to avoid this problem
and to save the time of both professor and student we are going to introduce a new online
application called University Technology Services.
Proposed System:
This application is a user-friendly tool that encompasses all functions required to
create /maintain online course and student information. An instructor can use this tool to
manage all courses offered by semester, to create / update / view student information
currently enrolled, to calculate grades and to post notes, assignments all in one tool.
Students will use this tool to upload/download/view assignments and to view current &
estimated grades for the enrolled courses by semesters.
Project Analysis:
This application consist three modules.
1. Admin Module:
The Instructor acts an administrator, after logging into his account administrator can do
three functionalities they are
Create Professor:
The following information are required to create a professor like First, last name,
username. The default password is welcome. The administrator can also reset a professor
password upon request on the same page.
Assign course to Professor:
The professor should be assigned to a course and a semester. The lists of professors
are shown in the Select Professor ID field, chose the professor. Enter a Course ID, Course
Name and Semester. The professor will be assigned to the course id, course name for that
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semester.

Once the professor is assigned to a course, he/she can login to upload

student/course information, upload grades and assignments. This will also give the
instructor access to the application.
Change password:
By using this functionality administrator can change his/her account password.
2. Professor Module:
Once the professor logs in, he/she will see a welcome note along with professor name.
The page displays information related to the current semester. The professor/instructor can
also view previous semester information. When the professor logs in for the first time, the
course Id and the course name are populated based on the course assignment to the
professor done by admin login. The professor has the do the following for each course in the
following order
Upload student/course information
Upload course assignment content
Upload student assignment grades
Download student assignments
3. Student Module:
The student/course information is uploaded using the excel template. This template has
two parts.
Semester / Course / Assignment information
Student information
And these functionalities consist Semester, CourseID, Course Name, Assignment Name,
Assignment percentage contribution to the final grade as major fields.
Software Engineering Methodology:
Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD Standards)
Software requirements:

Operating System

: Windows

Technology

: Core java, Adv Java (JDBC, Servlets, JSP)

Web Technologies

: Html, JavaScript, CSS

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Web Server

: Tomcat

Database

: Oracle

Softwares

: J2SDK1.5, Tomcat 5.5, Oracle 9i

Hardware requirements:

Hardware

: Pentium based systems with a minimum of P5

RAM

: 256MB (minimum)

Additional Tools:
HTML Designing

: Dream weaver Tool

Development Tool kit

: My Eclipse