Design and Implementation of an Effective Academic Web-Based Content Management System

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2018-10-01

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Library and Information Science Department, Nasarawa State University, Keffi

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In education, teaching and learning using Internet is one of the main important media for lecturers or instructors to provide teaching materials, post announcement, provide online quiz etc. AWCMS is a web-based system application developed to assist academics to create their personal profile and manage their course contents for teaching and learning purposes. Having this student-to-lecturer interface, the interaction between lecturers and students will be more effective and convenient. The research work comprehensive explained what content management systems is all about, its type and a review of work done in that area was carried out. The benefit of integrating this type of application in an educational setting was emphasized with a prototype design and implementation snapshots. The methodology adopted and utilized in this study is Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM), using a 3-Tier application architecture.

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Academic Web-Based, Content Management, ICT

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