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Student Records System SRS - Preliminary Planning Overview
The School of Prosperity (Sop) is a small Information Technology & Science school located in the
nation’s capital of Washington, D.C. The school serves a growing student population of about
5000 students by offering programs leading to the Bachelor and Master degrees in IT and
Software development.
SoP has, traditionally, offered most of its classes in a face-to-face modality. Recently and
because of the increased demands of student enrollments, the school started to offer some of
its classes online as well.
The school staff currently uses an in-house desktop application to keep track of students,
courses, and to register students for classes. School staff has to be physically in the office in
order to access the in-house application. To register for a class (either face-to-face or online
class), a student must complete a paper registration form, submit it to the school staff, and the
staff will then enter the registration information into the desktop application.
This process always generates many errors in moving from the paper form to the electronic
registration filing. Moreover, since there are so many add/drops at the beginning of each
semester, the school staff experiences a higher than normal work volume handling these
add/drop forms preventing them for completing other tasks allocated to them like staff
development and training.
To keep up with the high demands of increased enrollments and to allow students to handle
their own registrations online, SoP decided to invest in a new Internet-accessible Student
Record System dubbed SRS.
The SRS is to maintain records for students enrolled in the school, courses offered by the
school, classes offered of these courses in the two modalities of online and face-to-face, and
student grades for the classes that they have completed. The SRS should be Internet-accessible
and thus allows students to self-register directly for their own classes and allows the staff to
work from any location that has an Internet connection and a web browser.
System Request –??? Project
Project sponsor:
Business Need:
Business Requirements:
The functionality that the system should have is listed below: