Web-based content management system for academic purposes

• Main Authors: Tan, Han Mei, Chua, King Lee, Abd Wahab, Mohd Helmy, Mohd Fauadi, Muhammad Hafidz Fazli
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/11399/1/495-499-CR210.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/11399/; http://www.kmice.cms.net.my/

The explosive growth of the World Wide Web has increase the technology for information dissemination.Beside that, the growth of development software becomes an important and the quick development tool for web development could assist non-IT user to use the web as communication medium.In education, teaching and learning using Internet is one of main important medium for lecturer or instructor to provide teaching materials, post announcement, provide online quiz and etc.The Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, as it name implies, not all faculty member familiar with web development even some of them never ever know how to use the web as medium, due to the these contributed factor, Interactive Web-Builder (I -WEB) is a web-based system application which runs on Internet Information Services (IIS) developed to assist academician to create a personal website or create a web for teaching and learning purposes.I-Web is a fully dynamic system and provides user-friendly interface to facilitate user to create and manage the web online.The system also utilizing concept Web-Creating-Web (WCW) to develop the structure of the system for users whose are experienced or inexperienced in web development methods.The development processes have successfully developed using ASP.NET and Microsoft Access as prototype database.The system provides solution for dynamic templates, editor and file manager.The system shows dynamic templates to enable target users to create their web space from a variety of pre-prepared web templates, while file manager manages files more conveniently in hosting server in comparison with the conventional File Transfer Protocol(FTP).Having this student to-lecturer interface,the interactive between lecturer and students are more effective and convenient.