Developing Online Course and Lecturer Evaluation System for UTP

UTP requires students to complete lecturer and course evaluations as part of the institution-wide assessment process. The evaluation result is used to improve teaching within courses. Despite the branding of technology university, UTP still uses a semi-auto (in-class) evaluation activities comprises of pencil scan sheet method. The disadvantages of the current system are the slow feedback as it takes time to compile the result, it is quite expensive to administer because of the printing costs, it takes up class time thus students have limited time to give their thoughtful rating and the participation is low as it is limited to the attendees of when the evaluation activity is conducted. Therefore, this project is targeted to bring the current evaluation system to different level which is online based. The objective of this study is to come out with a working web-based system capable of handling the course evaluation exercise and storing of data obtained from the evaluation activity. To achieve the objective, these three important steps need to be conducted which are to analyse the problem in current lecturer and course evaluation system, to design a system that can be used to improve the current system based on the analysed problem and to develop the online evaluation system based on the design. The scope of this study is limited to Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS since such system has not yet been developed and implemented in the institution and are focused on improving lecturer and course evaluation system in the institution only. The methodology used in developing the system is rapid application development (RAD) which is a type of prototyping methodology. The method minimized period of planning phase thus allows the system to be written faster yet easier to change requirements later. From the study, it is found that there are four important key points in developing the system. They are easy format for creating and editing evaluations, student online access to evaluations that maintained their anonymity upon submission yet could be tracked for completion, a mechanism for sending automatic e-mail reminders and a mechanism for report generation