Design and Implementation of an Effective Academic Web-Based Content Management System

Abstract

In education, teaching and learning using Internet is one of the main important media for lecturers or instructors to provide teaching materials, post announcement, provide online quiz etc. AWCMS is a web-based system application developed to assist academics to create their personal profile and manage their course contents for teaching and learning purposes. Having this student-to-lecturer interface, the interaction between lecturers and students will be more effective and convenient. The research work comprehensive explained what content management systems is all about, its type and a review of work done in that area was carried out. The benefit of integrating this type of application in an educational setting was emphasized with a prototype design and implementation snapshots. The methodology adopted and utilized in this study is Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM), using a 3-Tier application architecture.