New Course Registration Module for the University Study-Oriented System
Krzysztof Ciebiera, Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz, Tomasz Waleń · 2003
The University Study-Oriented System (USOS) is an integrated student management information system for handling student affairs at Polish universities. Its development and deployment is coordinated and supported financially by the consortium of Polish higher education institutions. It is a huge databaseoriented software application done partly in Oracle technology and partly using open source products (Internet modules). Course registration is one of the most important functions of the system. The problem with the registration is that various faculties and higher education institutions use various registration strategies. The native module for web-based registration, USOSweb, was not able to fullfil needs of them all, so the new one was developed, based on fundamentally different registration rules. The purpose of this paper is to describe both registration modules for course registration developed for USOS. The new module was deployed at all faculties of Warsaw University in the summer of 2003 and used during the academic year 2003/04 for registration for courses and exams which are offered to all students of the university.