Integrated project allocation and examiner assignment system for final year projects part 3

Abstract

The Final Year Project (FYP) is the final milestone of a student’s academic journey. This project known as the FYP-APP project provides the functionality to allocate FYP’s to students through its allocation system. The system was first introduced by senior students to handle manual project allocations and was improved gradually through the use of modern web application languages such as Node.Js, React.Js and MySQL for relational database management. The system includes a few components that handle the student allocation and examiner allocation. Student Computation Algorithm (SCA) manages a faculty members workload, Student Selection System (SSS) that handles allocation of projects to students based on the faculty members workload, a Staff Preference Module that allows faculty members to select FYP that they want to examine and finally the FYP Examiner Allocation System (FEAS) where the projects being selected by the faculty members to examine are allocated to them. The key challenges that this report aims to address is handling of FYP assignments between faculty members and students, handling dynamic allocation constraints, ensuring equal and fair distribution across faculty members and students. The report also highlights improvements to user interface and experiences to provide better experience for both end users and developers. In addition, it also outlines development libraries and technologies that can help enable efficient development and debugging of the FYP-APP throughout the development and production stages.