Campus Solution is an education management consulting company located in Austin Texas. Dr. Judy Marconi (retired President of a local college) and her friend Mr. Thomas Irwin formed the company in 1990. The company specializes in providing "housing campus management solutions" for small, medium, and large colleges and universities. The system can be added to any existing student management system and configured according to the processes and policies of the college and/or university.
Vision of the company:
Provide a customizable intuitive campus housing management software solution for delightful customer experiences.
Mission of the company:
To build a robust platform-independent secure end-to-end software product for managers and students to save them time and provide the best living experiences while in college.
Most of the colleges and universities provides safe living spaces for their students in "dormitories/dorms" in an around campus. Managing students and providing a variety of services require proper processes and record keeping of all the students. There are large number of students (freshman to senior) living in, leaving, or changing dormitory every year which requires proper management. It creates a lot of confusion and inconvenience for the dormitory management personnel to deal with. The workload is large, and the processing time is long and requires a lot of human and material resources. There should be a proper process of reviewing "applications, processing them and approving student requests". There is a process of proper matching of students, sometimes according to the student choices, but it is not always possible. Students pay their dorm fees in various ways. Some students pay them monthly, but some pay them annually. In addition, there are request for dormitory equipment repairs and other student accommodation requests. Your team is tasked with creating a proper "dormitory management system" to handle all the tasks. Due to the limiting time and resources availability, your job would be identifying the possible components, and built some part of the software platform. Follow the SDLC life cycle process and complete the process.
Your submission would be in two different phases.
Some examples of the components could be (not an exhaustive list):
- Student and parent portals for application of housing and acceptance
- Room reservation system
- Work order system (maintenance, upgrade, and fixing issues)
- Online payment system
- Move-Ins and Move-Outs
- Package Tracking Functionality for students living in the dormitories
Your solution could be any or all these formats:
- On a client standalone computer.
- On a web-based platform.
- On a mobile platform
Each group must present their project and show their solution. You can use the virtual (Team environment or recorded media presentation). All group members must participate in the presentation.
Deliverable’s phase 1:
• Group members
• Scope (identify the problem and focus on one chosen component)
• Project Schedule
• Workflow diagrams /Activity diagrams
• Event table
• Couple of fully developed description of events from event table
Deliverable's phase 2:
• ERD
• DFD (Context level, zero, fragmented)
• Structure Charts
• Interface (screen shots/captures)
• Interface coded
• Implemented
• Support documentation
• List of shortcomings/improvements
