Online Student Grade Portal (HELP!)

[sitestpseudo0183]

Good day, afternoon and night.. ^^..

im currently in need of help regarding the title.. me and my group had some problem because we already lack of the time frame given to us..

our proposal is about how student can view their individual grades privately with the use of username and password, which is most of the schools around the world already have..

please help..

[essellar]

Have you taken a look at openSIS?

I don't have a lot of experience with SIS (Student Information System) software, but openSIS looks like it would provide what you'd need out of the box, both from the student access end and from the teacher/management end.

[sitestpseudo0183]

thanks for the information.. seems like interesting, i will try to use your suggestion.. ..

[liamnic86]

Try Moodle (http://moodle.org) its free and sounds like exactly what your looking for.

[essellar]

Actually, it's not -- Moodle is a different class of software altogether. There is a difference between a Student Information System and a Course/Learning Management System. Using Moodle as a SIS would be a lot like using Joomla or Drupal for a blog about your cat -- it's bigger, slower and a lot more complex to set up than you need, and you'd only ever be using the tiniest part of the program.

[olmcwebg]

the last poster was right, moodle do not suite exactly the system said.. im one of the group mates, and what exactly he is looking for is OpenSIS, but it only exercise within K12 line of education..

we need a cms or an example, or any other application could be manually coded or not that is like this one..., http://mycdd.cdd.edu.ph/login.php.. its a college online grade access for students in colegio de dagupan here in the philippines.. after logging in with a valid account, you will be redirected to a webpage with your information, like your subjects taken and corresponding information like your subject code, subject sched and other subject matters ^^..

please help.. thanks..

and i want to ask too, if the what is the hostname of the mysql here in x10hosting..

[challapradyumna30]

If you have some knowledge in php and Sql its not a big task. With some framework knowledge its becomes a days work to the max. Advantage of writing our own is that we can make any kind of adjustments or new features on the fly.

[essellar]

If you have some knowledge in php and Sql its not a big task.

"Not a big task" is relative. Even with something like a basis SIS, you have three separate applications with a common data store to create -- the student access portal, the teacher/instructor portal, and the educational administration portal, each of which has its own security and confidentiality guidelines to encode in the system, many of which would be mandated by statute. Now consider that individual test and assignment marks are not created equal -- some carry a heavier weight than others, some may be letter grades only, some are merely pass/fail, some are percentages and others are fractional (you got 17/18 on this quiz). Your interfaces need to account for all of these things in a way that makes it easy for the end-users (students, teaches and administrators) to use. Oh, and you'll need to be able to do trending and other statistics on the fly and as consolidated reports, often without the person looking for trends having access to all of the data under their user ID. Then there are the subjective student assessments/evaluations (and usually similar evals for teachers, TAs, and so forth) and the maintenance of draft (unpublished) versions of all of those.

Yes, you will get something that's an exact fit if you do custom development. But it's going to take a while to get there -- even requirements gathering is going to take a couple of weeks on the most optimistic schedule. And a developer who just throws a UI at a user group without consulting and testing (paper prototyping, etc.) ought to be locked in a basement somewhere to do nothing more potentially harmful than optimizing an implementation of A*. Then allow for the fact that version 1.0 is never satisfactory, even if it does fulfill the basic requirement -- you need to be able to devote people to iteration and improvement.

Coding is easy. Software engineering and development is hard. The developer doesn't get to make all of the choices.

So this "not a big task" is very likely to become 3-6 months of hard slogging under the best of circumstances if you care at all about doing it right. Yes, you'll have something that's the best possible fit at the end of it all, but it's not something you can knock off in a weekend unless you really expect your users to devote a whole lot of their (more valuable than your) time learning to use what you decided to give them. And you probably will have forgotten to include many of the most important parts simply because you didn't know they needed to be there.

Now compare that reality with an off-the-shelf solution. Someone else has already gone though all of those problems, and has fixed most of them. All you need to do is spend a little bit of time reading the doco, installing/deploying and configuring. It may not be a perfect fit, but it's a week or two rather than months to roll it out. Whether you are only considering the time as an absolute or are including the development costs, off-the-shelf is a whole lot cheaper even if there's a price tag on the shrinkwrap.

[olmcwebg]

sad to say, but im not good in php.. i had some little knowledge but i guess its not enough.. I have my experience in desktop programming especially in database management, but if it is to be in online or web, its not much better..

could i ask how to identify the localhost of x10?.. im doing login using PHP, but it do not seem to accept or linked in the myphpadmin database.. is it because im just a free user and not a premium?..

thanks for the info everyone, im so grateful to know more..

[essellar]

You just use "localhost" to get to the MySQL server. Remote access is not allowed, and localhost is the only permitted access route. To create a database and user(s), you need to use the cPanel MySQL tool -- see How to Create a MySQL Database and User in the Wiki.