Patrick, H.H. Then
Lecturer
Swinburne University of Technology
Sarawak Campus
Malaysia
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About Swinburne
• Established since 1908 in Melbourne, Australia
• Malaysia campus since 2000
• Student populations = 1600
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Location
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About Information System Project
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Bachelor of Business (Information System)
Final year
Team of 2 to 5
Duration = 14 weeks
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About Information System Project
• Internal user
• External user/client
• Examples
– Online bookstore
– Online computer store
– Timetabling
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Current Enrollment System
• Allows students to enroll their subjects prior to commencement of a semester
• Done manually
• On Papers!
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Current Enrollment System
• Human intervention to check rules
– Pre-requisites
– Timetable clash
– Proxy enrolment
• Notification
– By phone
– By postal mail
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Rules
• Complicated workflow
– Incorporates strict enrollment rules
– Subset of university business rules
Subject pre-requisites
Payment status
Course coordinator’s decision
Students’ seniority
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Why online?
• Enroll outstation students to enroll into their subjects prior to commencement of subjects at their homes
• Allows access from diverse devices
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PC
Laptop
PDA
Mobile
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Why online?
• Allows Student Administrators (SA) to make different queries
• Notification mechanism
• Minimize human errors
• Service oriented satisfaction among students
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Architectures
• 3-tiers
– Oracle server
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