Prototype System to Check the Graduation on Web Applications

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to develop a prototype system for checking graduation status on web application, a case study of undergraduate curriculums of Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University. This research was a research and development methodology according to the concept of the system development life cycle. The study was divided user into 3 groups: (1) students (2) education service staff (3) teachers and administrators. Currently the university had set up a system to verify graduation on a website. This system could check the total number of credits, and the overall GPAX exceeds 2.00 or not, but it is unable to verify the GPAX of the specific category of each the curriculum that it was an important criterion in order to graduate. Therefore, the verification of these in the Faculty of Science used manual methods by students and the service staff. The students fill grade in the form and calculate their grades before submitting to the service staff. Then the staff rechecks the grade again with a calculator. This leads to delay and prone to errors. This study developed a web application prototype which covers 10 main processes, including register for login, authenticate, manage course structure, record grade, calculate GPAX and GPA of specific subject group, check the graduation conditions and report the result, send data for checking by student, check data from the system by staff, produce the report. The database has 11 tables that has 6 import screens and 2 reports that they can be filtered by course and status dimensions. The results of user’s satisfaction showed that the 30 students were at high satisfaction level, and the 4 users from education service staff, teachers and administrators were at the highest satisfaction level.