Design and implementation of SITC faculty portal

Abstract

American University of Nigeria (AUN) has many web application used every day both by students and faculty. For students, faculty and other staff to know about a course or department; they have to visit the AUN website and they can only have little information about them. This problem is faced by students, faculty and visitors that want know about the school of information, technology and computing in the American University of Nigeria. SITC is the second largest school in AUN and it should have its own website platform where people can know more about the courses offered in the school, Catalogs, dean, different majors offered in the school and chairs of these majors. The SITC Faculty Portal will give a clear image of the school of SITC and will help the faculty share documents and information among themselves. This application would have a logo of AUN and a description of the courses offered. A user would be required to simply log in in order to have access to the portal. It will have portlets which are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal, example are calendar, newsfeed and others. It would be compatible to any device supporting a web browser (like most of our phones and tablets). Given there is internet connection on campus and the compatible devices are mostly portable, this portal will be accessed. This application if deployed would provide an easier, faster to know about the SITC for students, alumni, faculty and even visitors. And it will provide solutions to all of the above mentioned challenges faced by the member of SITC.