SDLC Of Education Department

Superior University Lahore

		Sahiwal Campus
Department:	Information Technology
Programme:	BS-IT
Course:	Fundamental Of IT (FIT)
Topic:	(System Development Life Cycle)-SDLC Of university
Submitted by:	Hafiz M.ZeeshanSarwar Participant 1:RanaKomailMazhar Participant 2: Ali Nawaz
Roll no:	BITM-F14-028
Date of Submission:	02-09-2015

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 I am very grateful for the strong support and guidance provided to me by my FundamentalOf  IT (FIT) Teacher SIR MuhammadSaleem, Who helped me for good knowledge about my topic also help me in preparing this project I am very thankful to him.

SUMMARY

My topic is (System Development Life Cycle)-SDLC Of Education Department ) so I am discussing about  System Development Life Cycle)-SDLC OF Superior  University.The purpose of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Standards is to describe the minimum required phases and considerations for developing and/or implementing new systems at the Superior University.

(System Development Life Cycle)SDLC OF Superior University.

·        Definition of SDLC                                    {For More help :  shanich108@gmail.com}

·        Stages Of SDLC

·        Traditional Versus modern SDLCs

Definition of SDLC

Althoughit is primarily identified with structured analysis, the system development life cycle (SDLC) describes activities and functions that systems developers typically perform, regardless of how those activities and function fit into a particular methodology.

Stages Of SDLC

An SDLC represents a set of general categories that show the major steps, overtime, of an information systems development project.

Basic SDLC

At a minimum the SDLC model includes the followings steps.

System Planning: -                        Formal request

System Analysis:-             understand the University requirement.

System Design: -               Create a blueprint for the system that will satisfy all documented requirements and University…

System Implementation:-The new system is constructed.

System operation an Support: - Maintains and enhances the systems..

Traditional Sdlc-Phase And Purpose

“PLANNING”

Required to determine the feasibility of whether the project should proceed or not. Produces a high level overview document of the project which relates to the project requirements and scope to include requirements for data replication in this step, aUniversity determines the systems that fit with the strategic goals of the University. Guidelines are established for in sourcing and/or self sourcing, and the overall technical goals are established.

For example University must determine that to meet requirements of students. And provide all faculties like environment of the University, facultymembers, beautifulBuilding, easy learning method for the students and many other things. Then the institution can establish the necessary timelines to accomplish the development of the necessary systems.

The University’s overall mission of being a centre of academic excellence, by integrating training, research and service. It is also committed to promoting the advancement of knowledge through teaching, research and community services in the areas of business and economics. The University’s unique philosophy of Community Based Education (CBE) that aims at developing students understanding of the real and prevailing problems of the society in which they live in. This University programs is designed in a manner that enables students to be more oriented in identifying the problems of society through research and at the same time developing action plans and projects that enable intervention programs, hence equipping them with problem solving skills.

Systems planning involve four basic phases:

1)    Define information architecture

2)    Data architecture

3)    Activities architecture

4)    Technology architecture

“Analysis”

The word analysis usually implies at least two elements: (a) a breakdown of something into parts or ideas, and (b) a discussion or description of those parts using a point of view or a method. If, for example, you were asked to analyze the text of a reading, you would choose several main or important ideas from it, and then discuss each in turn using some kind of special point of view, theory, or method. An analysis in its purest form differs from other types of writing in that its primary concern simply is to explain something in greater or newer detail using a unique point of view, whereas the main purposes of many kinds of papers may be to argue or to evaluate.

In fact, some assignments may require you to use analysis to argue a point or to evaluate something. However, if you are required to do nothing but a simple analysis, then your primary goal is to explain something from a unique point of view.

Required to understand and document the goals of the system of any University. Documents in detail the scope, institution objectives and requirements of the system. Emphasizes what the system is to do. Includes analysis of what data needs to be replicates. In this step the team identified above works with the current and future to define and model the RequirementsOf the institution or University in detail.

Flow chart is a common tool used in this step of the System Development Cycle of any University. This information is then analyzed and a model is devised for the new system that meets the needs of any institution. This dynamic process often results in the scope of the project of any institution. The project plan must be updated to reflect these changes (e.g.Budget, timelines,technical details,and staff members, buildingrequirements, studentsneeds, providing easy learning teaching techniques..Etc)

The University conducts the teaching and learning process in well equipped classrooms with computers and LCDs. In each classroom, internet facilities are available to support the teaching-learning process. Besides this, all computers in the classrooms are networked with computers in offices so that instructors can easily access their data in the classroom.  Students also have access to internet facilities and library services.
 

Some are as follows:

• To produce qualified and well-equipped professionals in the fields of accounting, economics, management, and banking and finance
• To conduct research in business
• To provide consultancy services to the local community, governmental and non-governmental organizations and other social organizations
• To providing short-term and long-term training

Major Activities:-

• Basic teaching-learning activities
• Student research projects for graduating students, aimed at enhancing their methodological skills and problem identification and solving capabilities.
• Practical Training Program would be given for selective courses like operation management and project planning, aimed at acquainting students to the real working environment and enabling students to convert theories and models learned in classes to practical tasks.
• Undertaking Community Based Training Program (CBTP)
• Establishing links with sister institutions
• Exchanging memorandum of understanding with universities, federal and regional bureaus, and research institutes to share experiences and work together for better results
• Undertaking research and publication activities
• Educational tours to different manufacturing firms by graduating students
• Establishing links with overseas universities
• Developing proceedings of selected research work
• Providing counseling service to students on their academic and social problems.

“Design”

Describes how the proposed system is to be built. The design is specific to the technical requirements the system will be required to operate in and the tools used in building the system of the University. Impacts the build and implementation phases of the SDLC.Describes movement of data between operational databases. In this step, specific technical designs are created to the smallest detail.

It is common for several alternative solutions to be identified, but one must ultimately be chosen that best meets the needs of the institution. Moreover the important part is the reality of the project which may include time,money,scope of the institution, Quality of education for the Students, and many other functionalities.Once a solution is agreed upon, the project plan must again be updated. The purpose of system design is to create a blueprint for the new system that will satisfy all documented requirements.The curriculum is the heart of a student's University experience.

The curriculum is a Universities primary means of changing students in directions valued by the faculty. Curricula should be reviewed and, if necessary, revised on a regular basis, better to serve the changing needs of both students and society broadly. Today, however, we are being urged to reassess especially carefully the quality of our curricula.

Faculties are responding to this challenge by turning their attention to what are in many cases long neglected curricular matters. They are doing so as a practical means of both attracting and retaining more students, ensuring their success, and producing high quality, fair outcomes for everyone.

Some principles:

A number of important principles emerge from the literature on curriculum. These principles apply both to Universities-wide and more restricted disciplinary curricula and to curricula at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

1)    A curriculum should be founded on a carefully thought-out philosophy of education and should be clearly connected to an institution's mission statement.

2)    Clear purposes and goals. A curricular mission statement and written curricular goals (intended student development outcomes or intended results) articulate curricular purpose – what graduates should know and be able to do and those attitudes and values a faculty believes are appropriate to well-educated men and women. These goals and their objectives are specified in considerable detail and in behavioral language that will permit assessment of their degree of achievement (the curriculum's actual outcomes).

3)    A theoretically sound process. Student activities are chosen that are capable of developing the desired outcomes, as indicated by empirical research. Curriculum has its desired effect primarily through instruction. Therefore, the choice of course experiences and the specific quality and efficacy of these experiences in producing the stated intended outcomes for all students is fundamental to the quality of any curriculum. Current empirically based education theory is essential to effective instruction and thus the improvement of curricular quality. For example, there is little evidence that using traditional lectures will develop in students the higher-order cognitive abilities a faculty may value. Nevertheless, lecturing is still, by far, the predominant method of instruction in most institutions today.

4)    A rational sequence. Educational activities are carefully ordered in a developmental sequence to form a coherent curriculum based on the stated intended outcomes of both the curriculum and its constituent courses.

5)    Continuous assessment and improvement of quality. Valid and reliable assessment is preplanned to monitor on a continuing basis the effectiveness of the curriculum in fostering student development and also the actual achievement of defined institutional and curricular outcome goals.In many or most institutions there can be said to exist two potentially quite different curricula one, an array and sequence of courses offered by the institution and intended by the faculty to be taken and a second, the specific courses actually taken and sequence followed by each student. The intent, content, educational experience, and thus outcomes of the two may be – and, as judged from some of the current research, are – quite different from each other. Careful monitoring of actual student course-taking behavior through transcript analysis can reveal the degree to which students are experiencing the faculty's intended educational process and achieving their intended outcomes.

6)    High-quality academic advising. An effective curriculum – one that produces the results it claims in all of a college's diverse students – depends for its success upon a high-quality program of academic advising. Modern academic advising is developmental, starting with each student's values and goals, and helps all students design curricular and non-curricular experiences that can help them achieve their own goals and the institution's intended learning outcomes.

7)    Defining curricular outcomes clearly defined intended curricular outcomes enable a faculty to understand, communicate about, and control – manage – learning through the curriculum more effectively. Today, clearly stated, written outcomes are essential to good curriculum design, implementation, and assessment.

8)    Specifically, curricular outcome goals and objectives.

9)    Provide the solid foundation of intended outcomes.

10)                       Provide specific direction for the continuous monitoring – assessment and evaluation – of the actual outcomes the curriculum produces.

11)                       Reduce the potential for untoward teaching to the test – the corruption of the curriculum by instruction directed toward chosen assessment indicators; rather, both the instruction and the indicators are aimed at the outcomes previously defined by the faculty.

12)                       Guard against grade inflation and the consequent reduction in student, and perhaps faculty, quality of effort and the devaluation of degrees.

13)                       Enable a faculty to resist academic drift, where a college or program with one mission or curricular purpose gradually and unconsciously drifts away to some other purpose or purposes.

14)                       Enable a faculty to deal more straightforwardly and rationally with conflict over curricular content, such as disputes related to departmental turf.

15)                       Help everyone involved – faculty members, students, administrators, trustees, parents, legislators – understand the institution or program and the results it claims to produce

16)                       Increase the perception of institutional openness, candor, and integrity among all of the institution's customers and stakeholders.

“Implementation”

Prepare for and carry out the implementation of the developed system of an institution through acceptance testing to full production. In this step,the system is crated,installed,tested and rolled out with an appropriate training program.Careful project management is needed during this step due to the likelihood of projectcreep,missed deadlines and cost overruns.

Benefits

·         Campus Management Solution will provide the ability to streamline processes.

·         Reduce manual handling and Consolidate information into one Database, eliminating or decreasing the need for departments to maintain shadow systems.

·         Campus Management Solution will make easier to prepare and generate reports from different aspects.

·         Benefits include improved service to students by many departments on campus, including Admissions, Advising, Receivable Accounting and Registrar’s offices.

·         Deliver role-based, 24/7 access to information and services in a secure learning environment.

·         Improve performance toward advancement and fundraising goals through effective communications, streamlined data collection, and 360 degree insight into the constituents.

·         Improve transparency, compliance, and efficiencies by effectively managing funding and student accounts.

·         Consolidate and secure data and person identity with service-enabled Person Data structures.

·         Promote data access and reusability through tightly integrated product suites.

·         Efficiently define and manage business processes to flexibly configure solutions to fit needs and requirements.

·         Meet the demands of student for intuitive self-service management of their academic lives.

·         Reduce administrative overhead through use of powerful utilities.

Modules:-

Campus Management Solution is the most responsive and comprehensive student administration system which covers all the phases of student life cycle at the university; right from his admission till he graduates and becomes an alumnus. Following are the modules available in CMS:

·         Recruitment & Admission: This module is capable to automate the admission process of university, it will generate merit lists according to the admission criteria and score of the admission test results. The system will make offering process automatic on the merit basis.

·         Student Financials: Student Financial module will keep record of each student’s financials comprising his fees, scholarships and waivers. Any student can get his status regarding credit or debit. This will enable finance department to easily find out the statistics relating to student finance.

·         Student Records: The Student Records application is a set of business processes which can maintain Course Catalog, maintain Schedule of Classes, define Repeat Checking Rules, Maintain Course Requisites, Process appointments, permissions, term activations, withdrawals and other term related activities.

·         Academic Advisement: Academic Advisement is the application within Campus Solutions that is used for degree audit i.e. to track the requirements that a student must satisfy in order to graduate.

·         Campus community: It is the foundation of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions package It provides the 3C’s concept i.e. Communications, Checklists and Comments.

It also enables to maintain People and Organizations data. It helps in Event tracking on and Off Campus events.

·         Grade Book: Grade book helps to monitor class assignments and grades as well as facilitates communication between instructors and students.

Hostel Management System : 

1.     Hostel Management System (HMS) enables students to apply for hostel rooms and place requests/complaints.

2.     It enables the administration to allot rooms to faculty and students, to do mess billing directly to student accounts maintained with the accounts department, to manage the store inventory, to place notices online for the hostel residents, to mark attendance of both the hostel residents and their visitors.

3.      It also provides reports like list of students who applied for hostel admission, snapshot of current hostel rooms allocation, inventory transaction history, and attendance report.

Campus self service:

§  Access a secure 360-degree view of their relationship with the institution on a single web page.

§  View class and exam schedules, check enrollment appointments, and enroll or change enrollment in classes.

§  Request transcripts, view course and grade history, and evaluate transfer credit.

§  Manage their student accounts for charges, payments, financial aid, and admission deposit activity.

§  Make online credit card and eCheck payments.

Faculty Self-Service:

§  See a complete calendar of their classes. 

§  View a list of students who are enrolled or wait-listed for a class, plus those who dropped.

§  Send email to one student, a select group, or all students in a class—with just one click.

§  Access class information, such as start and end date, days and times, and location.

§  Enter midterm and final grades for each student.

§  Write notes to be displayed on a student's transcript.

Enterprise Portal:  
           It is a world class portal solution with many robust content and collaborative features.

Contributor Relations:    Contributor Relations gives the ability to manage relationship alumni and other donors.

CollegeNet Scheduling System:It is world class scheduling system used across the globe. It provides detailed views of facilities and keeps track of any conflicts that might arise.

Systems Development Life Cycle   SDLCOf  SuperiorUniversity.

PURPOSE: 

The purpose of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Standards is to describe the minimum required phases and considerations for developing and/or implementing new systems at the University.

Technological innovations have revolutionized the educational technology into various dimensions. Educational processes without educational technology have no value in this modern world.

In particular, the System developed in University is to enrich these education processes should follow a development strategy to motivate the end users to utilize the hypermedia potentials. The System development life cycle (SDLC) has different phases in designing such educational technology and assists the end users to benefit from the modern technology.

“Testing”

Testing depend on many condition such as

1).Student dealing

2).Testing system

3).Check and balance

4). Satisfaction

Testing and Evaluation provides the University the System with services related to assessment and evaluation. University office provides scanning services, scoring and statistical analysis of exams and evaluations, and administration of local and national standardized exams. Staff within the department conduct nationally recognized research on test-related topics and have an extensive record of publications in peer-reviewed journals.

The University Center is for Placement Testing is housed within Testing and Evaluation Services. Staff from Testing and Evaluation conducts studies to support the development of these tests and effectively use the results to place freshman into appropriate levels in different Categories. The Office of Testing & Evaluation Services provides a variety of educational measurement and assessment services to support the University community.

Testing & Evaluation Services provides and promotes course evaluation and test development, scoring, reporting, test administration, and proctoring services that conform with best practices in the field of educational measurement.

 University is committed to helping students’ successful transition to university, to improving the quality of testing and assessment across campus, and to advancing the discipline of Educational Measurement through scholarly contributions.

“Maintenance”

Building Systems Maintenance (BSM) provides maintenance services, construction support, and building automation for a large variety of building systems. The knowledge, experience, and skills of staff represent a valuable resource to the institution maintaining them for the current campus community and preserving them for future generations.

The knowledge, experience, skills, and tools necessary to provide repair and maintenance services to the systems listed below represent a valuable resource of the institution.

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

BSM provides service to the building electrical distribution systems, lighting and outlets. Connections to department owned equipment can be requisitioned by the department. State electrical codes require all high voltage electrical connections be performed by a licensed electrician and installations must be inspected. Departments may obtain an electrical permit through the Facilities Service Desk.

PLUMBING SERVICES

Domestic water, drinking fountains, showers, emergency eyewashes, sinks, toilets, urinals, flush valves, back flow preventers, and sewer maintenance is provided by the BSM staff.

HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING
Service to furnaces, air conditioners, ventilation systems, air handlers, heating pumps, heat exchangers, control valves, control systems, steam pressure reducing stations, exhaust systems, motor controls, motors,

fans, coils, filters, steam traps, terminal control boxes, thermostats, fin tube radiation, chillers, window air conditioners, etc. is provided by BSM zone staff and controls engineers.

SPECIALIZED SYSTEMS

Laboratory support systems such as fume hoods, bio safety cabinets and laminar flow hoods require certification. This annual service is provided by BSM staff, at no charge to the departments. In addition, BSM services central building laboratory support systems such as vacuum systems, compressed air and gas distribution, water softeners, and water polishers. BSM does not provide service to departmentally owned laboratory equipment such as pure water equipment, autoclaves, freezers, walk-in coolers, growth chambers, centrifuges, ice machines, and air driers. Departments must provide a requisition for service to these and other similar pieces of equipment.

STRUCTURAL SYSTEM SERVICES

Provide maintenance services on floors & floor coverings, walls and wall coverings, paint, windows, ceilings, non-moveable furniture, cabinetry, shelving, wall hangings and signage.. BSM also provides services to exterior systems including roofs, gutters, downspouts, brick work, stone and masonry work, caulking, tuck pointing, exterior protective coverings, concrete stoops and steps attached to the building.