Student Management Information System for Polish Universities
Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz · 2002
The purpose of this paper is to report the results of the New Educational Tools Tempus JEP project (JEP-14461-1999), which started November 1999, ended December 2001, involved all 17 Polish universities, and — in our opinion — was a great success. The project objective was to design and introduce an integrated Student Management Information System (SMIS) for academic structures and student affairs at Polish universities. In two years we managed to gather information on study programs and administration procedures in use at the participating universities, to produce fully functional software, and deploy it on some of the faculties (others are now in various stages of this process). What makes this success more significant is that the software was produced in-house, by the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, Warsaw University, by students supervised by academic teachers and Ph.D. students. Software was designed and developed on software engineering and database courses, and on master seminars. This can be considered a very successful experiment in the didactics of software engineering at the academic level. Polish universities are now in process of creating consortium (similar to Swedish LADOK [4]) responsible for further development and future support of the system (as well as other common activities of the participants).