Operating System and Class Scheduling

Chapter I
PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

1. Introduction

Nowadays, various systems expand in different areas of specialization. Most of them created by the demand and to give solutions on common problems encountered by the society. Being organized on everything makes our work fast and efficient.

Lyceum of Alabang, one of those educational institutions uses a traditional Class Scheduling System wherein the students need to exert more effort looking for their schedule. The students needs to look or to check all the rooms in the campus if it isn’t conflict on their subjects so when the day of the classes starts, there are times where the subject schedule are needed to be changed, so students didn’t sure if that revised schedule fits on them, otherwise, subject will be dropped. When it comes on the class list sometimes this cannot be monitored if it has already have a maximum number of head counts. Having this unorganized kind of method, it takes more than an hour before the student becomes officially enrolled.

With these problems in mind, the development of Class Scheduling System serves as one solution to those common problems we encountered. Having a system like this reduces cost of time in finding subject schedule that fits for the students. This system also aims to monitor the class list and subject’s schedule. For the Dean, it can provide them the block lists of the students enrolled to a particular subject and easily submit the records to the registrar through the network. For the Registrar, this system provides a way to monitor the students who are officially enrolled and the subjects to be added or to be dropped. And since it only needs 2 person and 2 computers to maintain this kind of system.

1.2 Objectives of the Study

General Objectives

This study aimed to develop the Class Scheduling System for Lyceum of Alabang to expedite the Class Scheduling System.

Specific Objectives

1. To design an effective, reliable and efficient Class Scheduling System.

2. To create a system using UML Software Development Tool.

3. To test and improve the system primarily based on user’s requirements.

4. To evaluate the system using ISO/IEC 9126.

5. To provide documentation and user’s manual reports.

3. Scope and Limitation

The study will speed up the various processes of enlisting and scheduling management practices of Lyceum of Alabang. The implementation of the program will be directed by these challenges, will be discussed, analyzed and improved through its own limitation. The perspective of the respondents will be studied and analyzed to determine the reliability and affectivity of the proposed system.

The research study concentrates mainly on the problem encountered by the Registrar’s Office, the Dean’s Office and the Student’s of Lyceum of Alabang. The program would be developed using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Office Access, Microsoft Office Excel, with the implementation of Computer Networking (Client/Server & LAN) Architecture. The system runs at least under Windows XP Operating System. It also focuses on developing a database file management system which can be used in applying safety procedures in certain files. It provides all the Student’s Master’s List and also the subject schedules. It also includes login security with two users such as the Registrar & Dean.

1.4 Conceptual Model of the Study

The figure below shows how the conceptual framework of this study will be developed based from the study’s objectives, related theories and concepts derived from the review of related literature.

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

5. Significance of the Study

The study focus on the development of Class Scheduling System which will generally help the student in finding the schedules, the room and also the professor of the subjects enrolled. This system would also help to ease the scheduling and the enlisting of the enrolled students in a particular subject. Specifically, it helps the following beneficiaries:

Institution/School – (Lyceum of Alabang) subject scheduling is one of the major problem in times of enrollment in Lyceum of Alabang. With the application of this system, the problems due to the change of schedules will be solve, thus, will help improve the enrollment process.

Student – it will help the students to stop the confusion according to schedule and the room to the specific subject. The system will be very useful especially for irregular students due to their unfix schedules.

Registrar – the result of the study will help the registrar to encode the schedule of the students and ease the task of enlisting and managing student profile.

Dean – The system will link the registrar and dean. It will help the dean to monitor the schedules and the subjects that has been taken up by the students.

The Future Researcher – serves as a reference for the future researchers in developing and modifying the scheduling system of the school. The next generation will bring new ideas to improve the system.

6. Definition of Terms

C. S. S. – refers to Class Scheduling System.

Database – refers to collection of data and arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval, also called data bank.

Evaluation System – refers to assessing the strengths and weaknesses of program, policies, personnel, products and organizations to improve their effectiveness.

File Management System – refers to one of the most visible components of an operating system. A file is a collection of related information defined by its creator. File Management exposes the user on how the operation system serves in this area through the creation, deletion and manipulation of files and directories.

Hardware – refers to comprises all of the physical parts of a computer, as distinguished from data it contains or operates on, and the software that provides instructions for the hardware to accomplish tasks.

Local Area Network (LAN) – refers to computer network that physically links two or more computer within a geographically limited area.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 – refers to programming environment used to create graphical applications for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.

Network – refers to a network consists of two or more computer that are linked in order to share resources (such as printer and CD-ROM), exchanges files, or allows electronic process synchronization.

Operating System – refers to the software of the computers system that is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and sharing of the limited resources of the computer.

Server/Client Networks – refers to a network in which one or more computers are designated. The networks, as server and the other computer on the network called client, can request services from the server. A server is a computer that serves information to connected computer, such as web server, application, files, printer and other information and hardware become available. The client is a computer that access shared network resources provided by another computer (called a server).

Software – refers to a programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them.
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Scheduling System of L.O.A

- Functionality - Reliability - Interface Design - Efficiency - Maintainability - Portability

• Project Analysis

- Analysis of Requirements - Requirements Definition

• Project Design

- UML Diagrams

• Project Development

- Program Coding - Program Interface Design - Documentation

• Knowledge Requirements

- Class Scheduling Process - Visual Basic 6.0 - Database Management System - Evaluation System ISO/LEC 3126 - Networking Structure - UML - Project Development Architecture

• Hardware Requirements

- Computer (Minimum
Requirements)
- Server – P-IV 2.0 GHz, 1GB memory,160GB hard disk space. - Client – P-IV 1.5GHz, 512MB memory, 80GB hard disk space

• Software Requirements

- Operating System (Windows 2000/XP) - Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

Evaluation and Performance
Test

(ISO/IEC 9126)