A Web-based integrated education system for a seamless environment among teachers, students, and administrators

  • Authors:
  • Noriko Hanakawa;Yoshiko Akazawa;Akira Mori;Toshiyuki Maeda;Shunji Inoue;Shigeyoshi Tsutsui

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Management Information, Hannan University, Matsubara, 580-8502 Japan;System Engineering Division, Solutions & Services, Educational Solutions Group, Fujitsu Limited, Tokyo, 105-7123 Japan;Research Center for Computer Science, Hannan University, Matsubara, 580-8502 Japan;Faculty of Management Information, Hannan University, Matsubara, 580-8502 Japan;System Engineering Division, Solutions & Services, Educational Solutions Group, Fujitsu Limited, Tokyo, 105-7123 Japan;Faculty of Management Information, Hannan University, Matsubara, 580-8502 Japan

  • Venue:
  • Systems and Computers in Japan
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The authors created a Web-based integrated education support system that unified the data in the administrative system and the education system in a university. The purpose of the system was to make the administrative system and education system data that had previously been separated seamless, and to implement seamless access from inside and outside the university while maintaining security. Moreover, the authors emphasized the development of a portal site as a point of contact for the system. As a result of using software packages and existing technology for the other servers and databases, and making a policy of not changing the administrative system at all, the authors were able to create the system in a short period of 5 months. After the system was operational, preparation and review for class could be done at home, and evaluations of reports and final determinations of grades could be done from outside the university. This confirmed that the education system was effective. Finally, the authors looked at the trouble and performance problems that occurred involving local rules in the business department during operation, as well as countermeasures for them. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 37(5): 14–24, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (). DOI 10.1002/scj.20475