Student Management Information System for Polish Universities at its Tenth Anniversary
Mariusz Czerniak · 2010
Development of the University Study-Oriented System (USOS, http://usos.edu.pl/) began in 1999 under the Tempus Phare Joint European Project (UM_JEP-14461-1999). The system is owned by University Centre for Informatization (MUCI, http://muci.edu.pl) – the unit created by the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities in 2002. Nowadays over forty percent of students of Polish public higher education institutions use this system and its associated applications. The main task carried out by USOS is administrative support of the teaching and learning process, which begins with the recruitment and ends with a presentation of diplomas and assistance in launching students careers. In this article we summarize ten years of system development and deployment and present our experience gathered in the specific environment of higher education. For this purpose, we use the results of the survey, which was carried out at participating universities in the beginning of the year 2010. The main aim of the survey was to show system position at institutions and what effort should be put to deploy the system.