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Course Registration Problem Statement

The document presents a problem statement for developing a new student course registration system to replace an older mainframe-based system. The new system will allow students and professors to register for courses and view grades online. It must access course information from an existing legacy database, allow students to select courses and alternatives, notify students of changes, and provide secure access to grades. Professors need to sign up for courses and record student grades in the system. The system needs to handle registration within given time periods and interface with billing.

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Course Registration Problem Statement

The document presents a problem statement for developing a new student course registration system to replace an older mainframe-based system. The new system will allow students and professors to register for courses and view grades online. It must access course information from an existing legacy database, allow students to select courses and alternatives, notify students of changes, and provide secure access to grades. Professors need to sign up for courses and record student grades in the system. The system needs to handle registration within given time periods and interface with billing.

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Course Registration Problem Statement

Version 4.2

Revision History

Date Issue Description Author


19/May/2009 4.2 Initial creation Extracted the Problem Kelli Houston
Statement from the Vision document
for purposes of scoping.
25/August /2009 V4.2 Generation for release Kelli Houston

Problem Statement
As the head of information systems for Wylie College you are tasked with developing a new student registration
system. The college would like a new client-server system to replace its much older system developed around
mainframe technology. The new system will allow students to register for courses and view report cards from personal
computers attached to the campus LAN. Professors will be able to access the system to sign up to teach courses as
well as record grades.

Due to a decrease in federal funding the collage cannot afford to replace the entire system at once. The college will
keep the existing course catalog database where all course information is maintained. This database is an Ingress
relational database running on a DEC VAX. Fortunately the collage has invested in an open SQL interface that allows
access to this database from colleges Unix servers. The legacy system performance is rather poor so the new system
must insure that access to the data on the legacy system occurs in a timely manner. The new system will access course
information from the legacy database but will not update it. The registrars office will continue to maintain course
information through another system.

At the beginning of each semester students may request a course catalogue containing a list of course catalogue
containing a list of course offerings for the semester. Information about each course, such as professor, department,
and prerequisites will be included to help students make informed decisions.

The new system will allow students to select four course offerings for the coming semester. In addition, each student
will indicate two alternative choices in case the student cannot be assigned to a primary selection. Course offerings
will have a maximum of ten students and a minimum of three students. A course offering with fewer than three students
will be canceled. For each semester, there is a period of time that students can change their schedule. Students must
be able to access the system during this time to add or drop courses. Once the registration process is completed for a
students, the registration system sends information to the billing system so the student can be billed for the semester,
if a course fills up during the actual registration process, the student must be notified of the change before submitting
the schedule for processing.

At the end of the semester, the student will be able to access the system to view an electronic report card. Since student
grades are sensitive information, the system must employ extra security measures to prevent unauthorized access.

Professors must be able to access the on-line system to indicate which courses they will be teaching. They will also
need to see which students signed up for their course offerings. In addition, the professors will be able to record the
grades for the students in each class.

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