Design and Implementation of an Interactive Online Platform for Students and School Supervisors to Communicate Regularly During the Students IT/SIWES Attachment.
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
- To enable school supervisor monitor the progress of the students during their IT/SIWES training.
- To enable students and supervisors communicate regularly, this in turn enables the student to provide feedbacks regarding problems encountered during his/her training program.
- To enable the lecturer/supervisor determine if the student is gaining relevant work experience during the IT/SIWES training.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
student industrial work experience scheme (SIWES)
The Student Industrial Work Experience scheme (SIWES) is a planned and supervised training intervention best on a stated and specific learning and career objectives geared towards developing the occupational competencies of the participants. It is a programme required to be undertaken by all student of tertiary institution in Nigeria pursuing courses in specialized engineering, technical, business, applied sciences and applied arts (ITF 2004). Therefore SIWES is generic
cutting across programmes in the universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. Thus, SIWES is not specifically meant for any one course of study or discipline.
In Nigeria, the current form of cooperative education is known as the student industrial training work experience scheme(SIWES). Often, student mistakenly and commonly refers to SIWES as IT, whereas Industrial Training is generic while SIWES is a specific form of cooperative education or industrial training operation in Nigeria.
The industrial training fund established the student industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) in 1973. The Scheme was designed to expose student to the industrial environment and enable them to develop occupational competencies so that they can readily contribute their quota to national economic and technological development after graduation.
CHAPTER THREE
SYSTEM DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
WEBSITE DESIGN
Before implementing the automated reporting system on this web site, the web layout and web pages must be designed. These pages are designed to help the user interact with the system. These pages would serve as a source of additional information. The web design template would follow the standard layout of most web sites available online. The web site would comprise of the following web major pages;
- Home / Welcome page.
- Student login page.
- Supervisor login page
- Report page.
- Company listing page
- University Contact page.
CHAPTER FOUR
SYSTEM IMPLEMENATION, RESULT AND TESTING
SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
The purpose of system implementation can be summarized into two functions; namely making the system available to end users (the deployment), and positioning on-going support and maintenance of the system with the performing organization (the transition). At a finer level of detail, deploying the system consists of executing al steps necessary to educate and train the end users on the use of the proposed system, placing the proposed system into production, confirming that all data required at the start of operations are available and accurate and validating that business functions that interact with the system are functioning properly. Basically, there are three (3) processes involved in the system implementation phase. These are:
- Prepare for System Implementation: This is where all steps needed in advance of actively deploying the application are performed, including preparation of both the production environment and the end users communities.
- Deploy System: This is where the full deployment plan, initially developed during system design and evolved throughout subsequent lifecycles phases, is executed and validated.
- Transition: This is where an organization takes full responsibility for and ownership of the applications are transferred from the project team to the unit in the performing organization that will provide system support and maintenance
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
SUMMARY
An automated IT report system is way of making the IT report submission easy for students and supervisors. Overtime, the process of submitting IT reports and monitoring student’s progress during the industrial training is a very cumbersome task. This is because students are attached to different companies and different parents of the country, so it makes it almost impossible for the supervisor to monitor their progress.
This automated IT reporting system is very user friendly, and makes it easy for supervisors to monitor the progress of students online irrespective of the location where the student is carrying out his/her report.
CONCLUSION
Having developed the automated IT reporting system, though it is subject to further modifications of its feature as time goes on. This system through its interactive interface and layout can minimize the stress of supervising and submitting reports.
RECOMMENDATION
Although the system already accomplishes a vast amount of tasks in IT reporting, it is still however subject to improvements. This effectively dictates that there would be continuous need to document changes in IT reporting and submission processes as the technology being used advances. Though this research attempted to establish a foundation for continuous documentation, there will ultimately be a need to generate separate and in-depth documentation for each aspect of IT reporting. In particular, it would be highly desirable to have a more specialized system that would detail the submission procedures and the mechanisms used for grading.
As this application matures in the future and attracts more users, it is envisaged that there would be need to provide faster and more detailed explanation to users. This may be achieved through the development of online feedback forum where frequently asked questions would be answered.
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