An Application Suite for a Student Database

The Macquarie University hosts a portal providing staff members with supportive information for their daily recordkeeping responsibilities and needs. Student administrators use this information to determine if a student is on track to complete their course in the allocated time. Access to this information is a difficult and slow process by which time the need for the information may have passed. In this paper I present a solution to provide student administrators with online information about their students. The solution is an Application Suite for a Student Database. The data recorded in the student database consists of details such as expected submission (completion) dates; ideal submission dates and current load (part time, full time, leave of absence). The student database will be managed by the student administrators. It is the responsibility of the student administrators to ensure that all the required information is entered into the system. In the paper I also provide details on the methods and architecture used to deliver this solution. It is also the intention of the paper to show that the final product is easy to maintain and use.