UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-LA CROSSE Graduate Studies
AUTOMATING CURRICULUM MANAGEMENT TASKS
A Manuscript Style Capstone Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Software Engineering
Rajarajan Vijayakumar
College of Science and Health
December, 2006
AUTOMATING CURRICULUM MANAGEMENT TASKS
By Rajarajan Vijayakumar
We recommend acceptance of this manuscript in partial fulfillment of this candidate's requirements for the degree of Master of Software Engineering in Computer Science. The candidate has completed the oral examination requirement of the capstone project for the degree.
____________________________________ _______________________ Dr. Kasi Periyasamy.,Ph.D Date Examination Committee Chairperson ____________________________________ _______________________ Dr. Kenny Hunt., Ph.D Date Examination Committee Member ____________________________________ _______________________ Dr. Thomas Gendreau., Ph.D Date Examination Committee Member ____________________________________ _______________________ Dr. Vijendra Agarwal Date Director, University Graduate Studies
ABSTRACT
Vijayakumar, Rajarajan, "Automating Curriculum Management Tasks", Master of Software Engineering, August 2006, Advisors: Dr. Kasi Periyasamy and Dr. Thomas Gendreau. This manuscript describes a web based tool that assists in automating curriculum proposal and change procedures, curricular data maintenance and course catalog publication at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Curriculum proposals are initiated by departments, approved by curriculum committees and finally maintained by Records and Registrations department. The current manual system is paper intensive, inconsistent, confusing and follows a manual workflow. The tool provides the following features: 1.) Using this tool, a faculty member will be able to create new course and program proposals through a web based application. 2.) The current database (namely catalog master) consists of unnormalized tables and consists of neither constraints nor relationships; so a new database has been developed to tackle the problem of redundancy and inconsistency 3.) The tool allows the creation of several reports. This manuscript describes the development of the curriculum management tool; in particular, it describes the activities performed in each phase, the challenges encountered, the issues that arose, the current status of the project, and its limitations and continuing work.

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