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A student record system

The aim of this project is to maintain a student record system maintaining student records within a single University or College department. The system should allow personal details to be recorded as well as classes taken, grades, etc. It should provide summary facilities allowing information about groups of students to be retrieved. Assume the system is intended for use by departmental administrative staff with no computing background. This project might be implemented in a database programming language or in a language such as VisualBasic.

A laboratory management system

This system is intended to support the administration of an undergraduate laboratory where different equipment is available to students for different experiments at different times. the system should assist with experiment scheduling and keep records of equipment purchases, reliability and maintenance. It is again, basically, a database project so could be implemented using a database programming language.

A coursework submission system

This system should manage the electronic submission of assignments from students to instructors. It should keep track of which students have submitted assignments and should allow instructors to manage the grading of assignments. It should provide summaries of student grades and facilities for electronically returning information to students. You might consider some kind of annotation system where instructors could comment on electronic versions of students' work. If you cover security in your courses, you could include encryption facilities in the system.

An admissions system

This system should help administrative staff in the department manage the process of admitting new undergraduate and graduate students. It should keep track of applications received, the progress of applications and information which has been sent to each applicant. It should include automatic reminders to staff when particular actions have to be taken and when deadlines are reached. Standard letters to applicants should be generated automatically by the system.




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