Abstract:
The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web has revolutionized practices in
business, government, health, and education amongst others. In education, the Internet
and World Wide Web opened new doors for traditional teaching and learning
environment. Thereby affording educators an opportunity to deploy new teaching,
learning and administration strategies and affording learners a rich learning experience.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Ruhuna currently rely on a
traditional course management system to handle their course management activities. The
traditional system is not efficient enough to cater to the increasing demand and does not
support for providing up to date information to the management.
Although there are various customizable commercial products available in the market,
those are cannot handle every unique domain requirements. In addition to this those are
most expensive in the international market. Hence the domain authority expects to
develop a tailor made software system. This dissertation describes the development of a
web based course management system for the Faculty ofHumanities and Social Sciences.
Object oriented techniques were used for analysis and design of the proposed system
while CSS, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, and MySQL technologies were used to
implementation. Implemented system was tested and evaluated. This system satisfies the
requirements of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and ready for up loading into
the apache web server.
In Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Online Course Management Systems has
been adopted to facilitate existing course management practices and overcome limitations
of existing course management, but has evolved into a generic on-line course
management platform. It also provides some insight into what can be achieved towards
on-line learning by a single programmer using a collection ofopen-source tools.
