Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Postgraduate Portal

University Teknologi PETRONAS nowadays has been using internet as a tool of education and learning. Through the development of web portal and content management portal such as E-learning, PRISM and UTP official website, these will allow students, lecturers and UTP staffs to interact which other, exchange learning materials, course registration, hostel registration and many other more. UTP offers numerous of platforms for information dissemination namely UTP official website and E-Learning but they are focused more towards undergraduate studies. In fact, UTP does not have a dedicated web portal for postgraduate studies. It is a disadvantage for not having postgraduate web portal because most of the research universities in Malaysia have their own web portal for postgraduate studies. As a proposed solution to address this problem, the author will develop a web portal with the addition of content management dedicated for postgraduate studies. The web portal will be referred to as UTP Postgraduate Portal (UPP) that will act as online medium for postgraduate students and have numerous functionalities. The main web portal will have functionalities such as to display information regarding the courses offered in UTP and login function for student and administration on the content management section and view public news provided by the Centre for Graduate Studies. For the content management section, there are several functionalities such as update and display of internal news and information regarding postgraduate studies, upload and download form or learning materials and forum for the interaction between students and Centre for Graduate Studies staff. The research methods used will be constructive and exploratory to gather data such as distributed online survey to the officers of Centre for Graduate studies as well with the postgraduate students. Benchmarking is also one of the research method used by the author to gather data and information. At the end of the research, web prototypes for postgraduate studies portal will be developed as a prove of concept for this project