In order to support the study progress of students at the University of Twente (UT), a system for self-assessment called the Personal Learning Records (PLR) was developed under the guidance of our client and supervisor, dr. Wallace Corbo Ugulino, and is currently being utilized by the Business Information Technology (BIT) study at the university, with the future possibility of being used in other technical and mathematical courses in universities all around the world. The system is used by students to track their own progress, as well as by their mentors and teachers in order to provide supervision and feedback with the aim of guiding students through the learning process. However, the system in its current state is difficult to use in multiple aspects - it has excessively long loading times, it contains many bugs, it lacks certain crucial features and it is built using PHP, which makes it difficult to maintain by our client. As such, the task of this project is to recreate the system from scratch with the above-mentioned issues resolved and new features implemented.
The CS Design Project module is one of the two final modules of the Bachelor. In the design component of this module, students show that they master the entire design trajectory, from the first informal specification of requirements by a client to the delivery and presentation of a well-documented working product. Projects are submitted by clients from either inside or outside the University. Students perform the project in groups of 3-5 students under the supervision of a teacher from the Department of Computer Science. The supervisor is also the one who assesses the process and products of the group. Project deliverables include a project proposal, a design report, a presentation and a poster.
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In order to support the study progress of students at the University of Twente (UT), a system for self-assessment called the Personal Learning Records (PLR) was developed under the guidance of our client and supervisor, dr. Wallace Corbo Ugulino, and is currently being utilized by the Business Information Technology (BIT) study at the university, with the future possibility of being used in other technical and mathematical courses in universities all around the world. The system is used by students to track their own progress, as well as by their mentors and teachers in order to provide supervision and feedback with the aim of guiding students through the learning process. However, the system in its current state is difficult to use in multiple aspects - it has excessively long loading times, it contains many bugs, it lacks certain crucial features and it is built using PHP, which makes it difficult to maintain by our client. As such, the task of this project is to recreate the system from scratch with the above-mentioned issues resolved and new features implemented.
The CS Design Project module is one of the two final modules of the Bachelor. In the design component of this module, students show that they master the entire design trajectory, from the first informal specification of requirements by a client to the delivery and presentation of a well-documented working product. Projects are submitted by clients from either inside or outside the University. Students perform the project in groups of 3-5 students under the supervision of a teacher from the Department of Computer Science. The supervisor is also the one who assesses the process and products of the group. Project deliverables include a project proposal, a design report, a presentation and a poster.
View the full design report for this project.