Online Course Registration and Advisory Systems Based on Students’ Personal and Social Constraints

Abstract

Course registration is a challenging task that students face during the registration process sometimes resulting in enrolling on wrong courses, if proper guidance is not provided. This paper presents a web-based registration and advisory system which has been developed and implemented by Komar University of Science and Technology (KUST) which facilitates course registration for both students and administrative staff and which ensures that the best possible schedule and course/section combination is available to students based on their personal needs and the requirements of the course. The system assists students in making appropriate decisions by providing them with collated and analyzed data about each available course including pass rates, average grades, the number of students’ friends who have registered for the course or reviewed the course favorably and the number of subsequent courses for which the selected course is a prerequisite. The system can also help to reduce the workload placed on academic advisors, assisting them in this time demanding task. The data implemented in the system is taken from an existing database which collates course registration data from spring 2016 onwards and which will ensure the delivery of accurate results.