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Executive Summary

  • Create a new and modern system for the admin team to use as the current system is getting outdated.
  • It is difficult to do certain tasks such as inputting data, and the new system will ideally make many of these tasks much faster.
  • The users will be the Norwood Chinese Association admin team, with possible further additions to include the teachers, as well as students/parents.
  • The system will be a website that will ideally be able to be used on any platform.

Project Glossary

  1. NCA - Norwood Chinese Association
  2. Admin Team - High level employees that should have full access to the system.
  3. Teachers - Employees that are teaching classrooms of students, and should be able to assign marks, homework, and more.
  4. Students/Parents - Clients of the Norwood Chinese Association
  5. SIS - Student Information System

User Stories

AD 1.01 - Student Registration

  • As an admin, I am able to manually register students.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can register new students.
  2. Admins cannot register a student with invalid data.
  3. Admins can register returning students.

AD 1.02 - Review Student Registration

As an admin, I can review the payment status of a student.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can see a list of all students who have not paid.
  2. Admins can see a list of all students who have paid.

AD 1.03 - Photograph Students

As an admin, I can take photos of students and associate it with their student ID.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can associate an image with the proper file format with a student ID.
  2. Admins cannot associate a file with the invalid file format with a student ID.

AD 1.04 - Generate Student ID

As an admin, I am able to generate QR codes/barcodes and student ID.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can generate a QR code/barcode and student ID for a student.
  2. Admins cannot generate a new ID for a student that already has one.

AD 1.05 - Manage Student Data

As an admin, I am able to manage the data of specific students.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can modify student data.
  2. Admins cannot invalidate a students data.

AD 1.06 - View Amount of Students Per Class

As an admin, I can see the number of students registered for each class.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can view the number of students for each class.

AD 1.07 - Enroll Students

As an admin, I can enroll a student into a class.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can enroll a student into a class.
  2. Admins cannot enroll a student into a class if they are already enrolled.
  3. Admins cannot enroll a student into a class that is full.

AD 1.08 - View All Students

As an admin, I can view a list of all students.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can see a list of all students and a small overview of their information.

AD 2.01 - Create Classes

As an admin, I can create classes for the academic year, and set the class types and limitations on class size.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can create a class for the current academic year.
  2. Admins can change the types and limitations for eeach class.

AD 2.02 - View Class Data

As an admin, I am able to see the names and emails of students for each class.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can see a name and email for each student in a class.

AD 2.03 - Set Academic Year

As an admin, I can start and end an academic year.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can start an academic year.
  2. Admins can end an academic year.

AD 3.01 - Assign Teachers

As an admin, I am able to assign teachers to each class.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can assign a teacher to a class.
  2. Admins cannot assign a teacher to a class that they are already assigned to.

AD 3.02 - Monitor Attendance

As an admin, I am able to monitor the attendance and absentee alerts created by teacher

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can view how many students are present for a class.
  2. Admins can view alerts created by teachers that show absentees.

AD 3.03 - Manage Report Cards

As an admin, I am able to review, approve, reject and provide feedback to the report cards submitted by teachers.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can review, approve, and reject report cards.
  2. Admins can provide feedback for a report card.

AD 3.04 - Receive Teacher Alerts

As an admin, I am able to receive alerts from teachers during class.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can see a variety of alerts from teachers during class.

AD 4.01 - Create School Calendar

As an admin, I am able to create a school calendar.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can add events to the school calendar
  2. Admins can remove events from the school calendar.

AD 4.02 - Create School Newsletter

As an admin, I am able to publish a newsletter for parents to view.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can publish a newsletter.

AD 5.01 - Send Email

As an admin, I can send emails to all teachers and all students or another group of people that I specify using a variety of filters.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Admins can send emails to all students.
  2. Admins can send emails to all teachers.
  3. Admins cannot send emails if recipient is not specified.

US 1.01 - User Authentication

As a user, I can log in with a username and password.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Users can log in with a valid username and password.
  2. Users cannot log in with an invalid username and password.

US 1.02 - User Two-Factor Authentication

As a user, I can have another code that is required to be inputted when I log in that can be obtained from an authenticator app.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Users that have 2FA turned on are required to submit an additional time-sensitive code to sign in.
  2. Users that do not have 2FA turned on do not have to submit another code to log in.
  3. Users cannot log in with an invalid code.

TE 1.01 - Send Class Email

As a teacher, I can customize and send email from the SIS to the whole class.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Teachers can send emails to the entire class.
  2. Teachers cannot send empty emails.

TE 1.02 - View Class Students

As a teacher, I can view the emails and names in a list for each of my classes.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Teachers can view a name and email for each student for each class.
  2. Teachers cannot view classes that they are not teaching.

TE 2.01 - Record Attendance

As a teacher, I can record the attendance at the beginning of class and send absenteee alerts to the admin team.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Teachers can record attendance.
  2. Teachers can send alerts to the admin team.

TE 3.01 - Assign Marks

As a teacher, I can enter marks for homework, test and exams for each of my students.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Teachers can assign marks for homework.
  2. Teachers can assign marks for homework.
  3. Teachers can assign marks for homework.
  4. Teachers can change previously assigned marks.

TE 3.02 - Post Homework

As a teacher, I can post homework to students.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Teachers can post homework and send it to students.
  2. Teachers cannot post empty homework.

TE 4.01 - Communicate with Admin

As a teacher, I can communicate with the admin team during class time.

Acceptance Tests

  1. Teachers can send messages to the admins.
  2. Teachers cannot send empty messages.
  3. Teachers can send alerts to the admins.

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Must Have

  • AD 1.01 - Student Registration
  • AD 1.05 - Manage Student Data
  • AD 1.06 - View Amount of Students Per Class
  • AD 1.07 - Enroll Students
  • AD 1.08 - View All Students
  • AD 2.01 - Create Classes
  • AD 2.02 - View Class Data
  • AD 2.03 - Set Academic Year
  • AD 6.01 - Admin Authentication

Should Have

  • AD 1.02 - Review Student Registration
  • AD 4.01 - Create School Calendar

Could Have

  • AD 1.03 - Photograph Students
  • AD 1.04 - Generate Student ID
  • AD 4.02 - Create School Newsletter
  • AD 5.01 - Send Email
  • AD 6.02 - Admin Two-Factor Authentication

Won't Have

  • AD 3.01 - Assign Teachers
  • AD 3.02 - Monitor Attendance
  • AD 3.03 - Manage Report Cards
  • AD 3.04 - Receive Teacher Alerts
  • TE 1.01 - Send Class Email
  • TE 1.02 - View Class Students
  • TE 2.01 - Record Attendance
  • TE 3.01 - Assign Marks
  • TE 3.02 - Post Homework
  • TE 4.01 - Communicate with Admin

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