Graduate Assistant Notification System

The project is focusing on a notification system of postgraduate students in Department of Computer and Information Sciences (DCIS) to keep track of their activities. The notification will be given by the Postgraduate Committee of DCIS or also known as the administrator of the system. Currently the Postgraduate Committee of DCIS uses manual tracking of the students’ activity and manually notifies the important information to the student. The goals of this project are to facilitate the coordinator and the postgraduate student in managing notification and updating information of postgraduate activities, and to study the scope of notification process for the system such as the two way of communication, push system, and periodic system. The most important part on developing the system is the user requirement gathering that has to be clearly defined to ensure that the system meets user expectation. The System Development Life Cycle methodology use in this project is Waterfall model which involves six phases in the cycles with its own deliverables. Currently, the most suitable platform for the system to store the information is by using phpMyAdmin. In order to make an effective connection between the system and the database, the system is require to use PHP language program as a platform for the system to communicate with the database. As a result, this system enables both users of postgraduate students and the coordinator to communicate with each other.