59738 Yumna

Sultan Qaboos University

College of Education

ILT Department

Produced by: Youmna Said AL-YafaiID: 59738

Submitted to: Dr. Alaa Sadik

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Content

Project Title……………………………………………………………. 3Background …………………………………….……………………….3Project Overview……………………….………………………………. 3Program feature ………………………………………………………….3The project outcomes …………………………………………………….4Needs Analysis………………………………………….………………. 4

Used Tools………………………………………………………. 4Problem statement ………………………………….……………6Actual Status…………………………………………….………. 6Desired Status……………………………………………………. 6Gab ……………………………………………………………….7Reasons of the problem …………………………………………. 8Suggested Solutions…………………………………………..…. 8The Implemented Solution………………………………………. 9The reasons for adopting this solutions …………………………. 9Instructional goal analysis………………………………………. 10

Instructional Analysis……………………………………...……………. 12Learners and Context Analysis…………………….……………………. 12

Learners Analysis……………………………….………………. 12Learners characteristics ………………………………………….13Academic motivation …………………………………………….14Analysis of learning context ……………………………………..15Context analysis of performance setting ………...……..………..16References……………………………………………….………. 22

Instructional Strategy……………………………….……………………. 20Performance Objectives………………….………………………………. 23Design……………………………………………………………………. 24

Software used in preparing this product ……………………….…24Story board ……………………………………………………..…25

Development…………………………………………………………...…. 25Evaluation…………………………………………………...……. 28

Experts Revision……………………….…………………. 28Students Reaction…………………………………………. 28

Summative Evaluation……………………………………………. 28Constraints & Challenges ………...………………………………. 30

Appendixes………………………..………………………………………. 31

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Project title: ILT course Catalog .

Background:

Course catalog is Academic courses that have a listing of academic courses, policies and related information such as: Michigan State University catalog. Of course, Students must consult their advisors to learn which specific requirements apply to their degree programs. As we know that, Sultan Qaboos University has Academic Information which has Courses Description for all courses in all colleges but in very general way. This project will create an electronic catalog for ILT department & its courses. Moreover, this project will include GPA calculator. As we know a transcript is an official copy of a student's academic record). Also, this project will include a forum that allows learners to participate and share opinions with each other.

Project Over view:

There are many students in ILT department & in graduate schools don’t know many information about ILT department purpose & its courses especially first year students & graduate schools students.ILT course Catalog Program proposed to makes students aware of their major & its courses and makes graduate school students aware of this major if they want to join to it in future.

Project feature:

This program works by entering the course code in a blank box and click search which will help students in getting information's about:

- department course : Course name. Total teaching hour. Total credit hour.

- Course description.- Course objectives.- Course content.- Course assessment.- Common questions in the department.

At first, when you entering to this catalog you will see a copyright & then you will see a short description about ILT department, then click

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enter to go to the main page, you will face a menu which has some buttons about: a total credit hours, department course, Course description, Course objectives, Course content, Course assessment, Common questions in the department, button about the needed program, important e-mails in the department button, forum & a help or instruction button. Also this program has the ability of remove, update and add course by instructor through using this user name: tec & password: 111. Moreover, this program provides the ability to calculate student GPA.

The project outcomes:

As a result I choose this program because of its benefits which help students in:

Increase student’s awareness in Chosen their courses. Make them aware of the prerequisites courses. Make students aware of his major and what he is joining to study. Make students aware about the objectives of the ILT major in SQU. Answers many common questions about ILT major & its courses. This program have the ability of: Update the data and add or drop any

courses by instructor & Update the date of E-Mail and add or drop any E-mail by students.

Allow students to calculate their GAP. Make students aware about different types of courses. Allow students to interact with each others through ILT department

forum.

Needs Analysis:

Used Tools:

Observation & my own experience:

I had study in college of education for more than 4 years & I had noticed that students & I am one of them doesn’t know any thing a bout ILT department & its courses. In many courses, I & my friends were very distracted in choosing our courses because we didn’t know any thing about our courses at first .also we didn’t know what is the prerequisite courses for many courses. We faced a lot of problem when we register to some courses.

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More over, when I was in the Internship on Salalah many students in schools ask me about my major & most of them didn’t know any thing about ILT major & they want to know more.

(Appendixe2):

I had made a short questioner to know how big the problem is & I had found that:

Most students in ILT department had a difficulty when they want to choose what course they will take.

Many of first year students have a little information about ILT Department.

Most students in ILT department don’t know what they will study in the future in their courses.

Students like to have an electronic catalog rather than printed material.

(Appendixe3):

Students like to have an easy way to calculate their GPA. Many Students don’t know how to differentiate between

different types of courses. Many students don’t know what is the difference between

Information Technology Teacher & Learning Resources Center Specialist.

Many students like to have a forum that enables them to interact with each others to share their experience.

Interview ( Appendixe1) :

I conducted interviews with my colleagues in ILT department; they strongly agree that they need to know more information about their courses and the prerequisite courses. One student said that:" when I was in my first year a lot of things appear to be strange & difficult to understand, no clear view,"Other said: "I am now in my first year & many things in my major I don’t know about it".

Problem statement:

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A lot of students don’t understand many of primary things in ILT Department and don’t know any information about courses they will take.Also, some graduate students in schools want to know more about the work in ILT Department & its purposed.

Actual state:

I choose this project because I observe that most students in ILT department (specially first year students ) and graduate schools students are confuse and distract when they want to join to some courses (ILT students ) or when they want to join after school graduation to ILT department . The information about ILT department in schools is not enough to guide the students and not enough to answer many questions that asked by ILT department students because of these reasons:

Lack information about ILT department courses. Lack of information that gives to students about each course when

they join to ILT major or to students in graduate schools. Lack of guides about some questions that students always asked

about them.As a result of these reasons many problems appear such as:

Confused in chosen courses. Confused to join to ILT major after graduating from school. Poor information about prerequisite courses for each course. Lack information when entering SQU, about ILT Courses.

Desired status:

Desired state is to make students more understandable about his/her major by having more specific & general information's about his/her major & courses.

Also, schools graduate students should know about ILT major & ILT courses before joining to SQU. all students should know about each course name ,Total teaching hour, Total credit hour ,each Course description ,objectives, content, assessment & Common

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Many students in ILT department don’t know any information about courses they will take.Also, students in graduate schools want to know more information's about ILT Department & its courses.

questions in the department to be more comfortable about his major & to be not afraid in the beginning of study any course .

Gab:Most students who join to ILT department and who want to join to it don’t have any information about ILT department courses or misunderstand ILT major.

Summary of the Needs Analysis:

Need: Being able to start studying in any courses in ILT, or being able to join to ILT major, recognize names of courses and many things which he will face through his study years in ILT department.ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــDesired Status: Make students aware by know general and specific information about ILT Department & each course in it.ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــActual Status: Most students In ILT department & schools graduate students don’t know any information about courses.

Reasons of the problem:

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Actual state:

Most students In ILT department & schools graduate students don’t know any information about courses..

Desired state:

Make students aware by know general and specific information about ILT Department & each course in it.

Gab: nioj ohw stneduts tsoM dna tnemtraped TLI ot

ti ot nioj ot tnaw ohw yna evah t’nod

TLI tuoba noitamrofni ro sesruoc tnemtraped

TLI dnatsrednusimrojam.

I figure out this problem by observation & interview because I know the situation as a student in ILT department and through interviews with some students. The reasons are:

Lack information's about ILT department & its work when student join to ILT major in his first year.

Lack of information that gives to students in schools about ILT Department & its courses.

Lack information about different types of courses in ILT department.

Suggested solutions:

In order to fill the gap and achieve the desired status, which will help students to be more aware about their courses & to be more awareness about choosing there future major (schools students), I have suggested the coming solutions:

School Teachers should expose students a bout ILT major & its courses when students want to join to ILT major.

ILT Advisor in SQU should Give more information about each course in ILT department in the first year for each students.

Demonstrate common questions and its answers, which students always asked in ILT department for all students because, may, they will face it in future soon.

Designing a database that contain information's about ILT department , its courses , common questions that always asked & ability of program to update , remove , add ,delete information's for future use & GPA calculator.

Add a forum to the catalog to enable learners to share their opinions & experiences.

The Implemented Solution:

- The solution is to design a database that contain the ILT overview, ILT objectives ,department course (Course name, Total teaching hour, Total credit hour),Course description, Course objectives, Course content, Course assessment, Common questions in the

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department, & some important e-mails in the department. Moreover, I will design a GPA calculator & I will link it to the main page. Of course, this program will have a link to a forum. Also, this program provide for instructor the ability to add a new course to the database or to modify or delete courses before distributed on CDs as a stand-alone software that is installed on students own computers & laptops .

- Also, advisor can upload ILT Catalog program to internet as example, 4shared web site, to make it reachable for all students.

The reasons for adopting these solutions are:

The ILT course Catalog will be delivered though CDs flash or through the internet for the following advantages (ACTIONS model):

Accessibility: It’s easy to access for all students either from CD, flash or internet (Ease to use as a stand alone).

Costs: it doesn’t cost any thing in comparing with traditional printed materials. It just can be downloaded for free or gives to student through his flash or a CD (ONE CD can cost only 200 paisa) in contrast with printed materials which cost papers and ink and more money to publish books about ILT department & its courses.

Teaching and Learning: (constructivism approach) because it enables students to searching among courses & getting information's about each course by using the CD , flash or internet .students can also save any e-mail they want & they can calculate their GPA by them self .

Interactivity and User-friendliness: Its student-machine interactions & student-content interaction (by searching, add, remove and delete e-mail, using GPA Calculator, participate in forum) .users can copy text from program about any courses & students can build their own experience through interaction by using online forum. ILT course Catalog program design is user-friendliness with a clear direction & instructions .it also enables instructor to add, delete , modify courses .

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Organizational Issues: the program can reduce the pressure that teachers and doctors always faced by students especially at the beginning of any courses (students asking).

Novelty: the idea of making ILT course Catalog program is new.

Speed: the database or ILT course Catalog program can be distributed through the internet, through teachers or advisor by (CD & FLASH) in a fast way without distractions.

Instructional goal analysis:

Instructional goal:

This catalog aim to: increase students’ awareness & knowing about ILT Department & its courses.

Instructional objectives:

After using ILT course Catalog, students should be able to:

Demonstrate general information about ILT Department.

Demonstrate general & specific information about ILT Department courses.

Identify total teaching and credit hour of each course in ILT department.

Gain information about the objectives and the content of each course in ILT Department.

Make students aware of the assessment of each course in ILT Department.

Answer the most common questions that faced students in ILT Department.

Match between the ILT courses & its Requirement Courses.

Identify each course in ILT department correctly.

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Search among Catalog for courses.

Add important E-Mails to ILT course catalog.

Calculate their GPA by MS Excel program.

Differentiate between ILT courses types.

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Instructional Analysis:

Learners and Context Analysis

Learner analysis:

Target audience (educational level):

This program is designed for ILT department students (especially first year students) and for graduate students in schools who want to join this department.

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GPA calculator

Forum

Relevant group characteristics :

Most students are Omani. They are from ILT department & from graduate school.Of course, all students have different culture which will be considered when designing the catalog.

General learning preferences:

Learners prefer to have digital catalog than printed materials because it can facilitate the process of searching about any courses.

They like to see common questions a bout ILT courses through the catalog.

Learners like to calculate their GPA by them self.

Social characteristic:

Students can review the content individually or in a group. For example: SQU Students or school students can see it in their own computer or laptops or they can see it in a group through projector & LCD panel.

Learner characteristics:

Motivation :

Students have positive motivation to know more about ILT Department courses and they like to know answers about some questions they always asked about it. They like to have the opportunity to calculate their GPA in easy way & to contact with each other to share opinions by using a forum.

Audience level:

ILT department students (SQU University) & graduate school students.

Entry behaviors ( Students prerequisites):

• Motivation to know more about ILT courses.• Positive attitude toward ILT major.• Have reading skills.• Computer operation skills.

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• Using the mouse.• Typing through the keyboard.• Ability to run up a CD and copy the program to C driver. • Ability to use the internet.• Computer should have Access & Excel programs to run up the CD.• Ability to navigate/browse among the database.

Prior knowledge in topic area:

From my observation and interviews I had noted that many students in ILT department don’t know any information about ILT courses. Also some students don’t know the prerequisite courses.

Attitudes towards content and potential delivery system:

Learners believe that catalog will help them to know more about ILT department & its courses.

Instructors prefer to have the ability to remove, modify & adding courses for future used.

Students want to have the control over the database, it can build their confidence.

Students like to calculate their GPA & grade by them self. Students like to interact with each other through forum.

Academic motivation (ARCS):

Attention: ILT students & school graduate students can gain their

attentions by using different color and good background, through

GPA calculator, data about time & date, through forum & through

instructions that provided to them.

Relevance: courses are related to students study or that they will

study in ILT departments in the future.

Confidence: instructors can modify courses, add a new course or

delete a course if the department add or remove any courses. Also,

students can copy text from the program & paste it to MS word

program. Also, they can add e-mails of instructors & their friends.

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Moreover, they can calculate their GPA. These can encourage

students to be responsible of their learning.

Satisfaction: when the students find all what they need to know

about ILT department and its courses & a bout some common

questions they want to know. Also, when students have the ability

to calculate their GPA & interact to each other through the Forum

these can make satisfaction from learners to the program.

Attitudes towards training organization:

We assume that the students have trust to get benefits from the

information that included in the CD.

Analysis of learning context:

Environment:

ILT Department and Graduation schools.

Distributed points:

ILT Department student in SQU. All graduation schools in Oman.

I will give graduation schools in Oman a copy of the CD to present it in their schools. In my opinion, it is very helpful idea if the students watch this CD before join to ILT Department in SQU.

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Requirement to use CD:

Laptop/desktop, operate the computer

• Students can use the CD in any where, any time and with their own

pace.

• It is flexible because, they don’t need any specific time, or place to

run &| use it.

• Computer should have Access & Excel program to run up the

program.

Resources:

I need some assistance from ILT Department (Subject matter expert).

Instructor. Technician. I need some resources from the internet. I need some assistance from ILT students to know the common

questions. I need some assistance from “Amal AL-Ibrahime “specialist in IT.Data source:

D. Ali AL-Mosawi (the head of ILT Department), interview with students – observation – my own experience – Questioners – P.Dr. Alaa Sadik , D.Hamed Nser & Saood AL-Hashmi the head of the administrative & financial systems division .

Context analysis of performance setting:

Context Components

Description

Managerial or

supervisor support

ILT instructor and school teacher will help students when facing any difficulties in their studies by the program.

Also help button can help students to know how to use the program.

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The instruction in the catalog can help students by guide them through the catalog.

Physical aspects of

the site

MOST ILT students have their own laptops & there are many computers in college of education that students can used to run up the CD. Also students in schools can operate this CD through school labs.

All computers in college of education have internet connection & if instructor uploads the program in the internet, students can also login to download the program through the internet or through wireless that provided in SQU. Moreover, nowadays most schools in Oman have internet connections & a lot of students have internet in their house which can be used to download the program.

Social aspects of

the site

Gender: Males & Females Age: Above 16 years.

Economic: different economic levels because the number of the target population is so large

Cultural: Most students are Omani, but there are some other Arab cultures in the target audience.

Context Analysis of Learning Environment:

Context Components

Description

Number/nature of

sites

Number: the catalog CD will be diffused to students in ILT department (more than 30 students in each year) & they can also download it through the internet. (more than 6,500 students in schools )

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Equipment:

1. Hardware: laptop, computer. 2. Software: Access program, Visual basic 6

program, Photoshop program, AAA Logo program, CRYSTAL Report program, MS Excel program & MS Word program.

Resource:

This project needs:o SQU Site for gathering information about

the prerequisites ILT courses.

o Laptop for developing the database.

o Help from friend.

o CDs for distributing the program to the

learners.

o Assistance from some teachers & doctors.

o High speed internet connections.

Constraints

- If the students are not from Arab countries, it

will be difficult to them to read the CD,

because CD is designed by Arabic language.

Maybe some students have negative attitude

of using technology.

o I had face a lot of problem in writing the

code in visual basic program & I had need some help from my friend & D. Hamed especially when I had writing the update code & when I want to link different

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program to visual basic program .

o Moreover, I had facing difficulties when

designing GPA in MS Excel program.

Site Compatibility

with instructional

needs

Instructional Strategy:

1. Teacher should engage students to see the CD before going to ILT department.

2. Students can used the program personally to help them when he wants to know any information about ILT department.

3. Students can use the program when they want to Calculate their GPA also when they need some advice from learners & instructor by using the forum.

Delivery Approaches: I will deliver my project by:

CD and it should be downloading on C driver to run up.

Each student will have a CD Because CD is: Portable. Flexible. Compatible. Can be use any time, any place. Easy to access. Easy to use.

Also all students & instructors will have the ability of downloading the catalog from the net (4SHARED) or they can take it through flash it’s an easy way to purplish this program through students & it doesn’t cost any things.

Time

This catalog can be used in any time any place without stick to time or place.Also, It can be used in any time in the future because it has the feature of updating, adding & deleting courses (this program not limited

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for just now it can use in future).

Personnel It is self-paced.

Site compatibility

with learner needs

Location:

It can be used in any place for example students in school can use it in learning resources centers or laps & in their home. In the other hand, students in ILT department can used it in SQU laps & through their laptops.

Conveniences:

CD content should be Placed in the C Driver to run it, in any computer.

Needed Equipment:

To run this program it require just :- Hardware: computers.- Software: MS access program, MS excel

program, internet|& crystal report viewer.

References:

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Instructional Strategy:

Theory Constructivism: because students can build their own learning about their major through the catalog & forum. also they can write their degrees in courses & know from it their GPA , also its behaviorism because students have some controls like : they can search about any course & they can add , remove , modify any E-Mail .

Teacher/student centered

It is student-centered, because it designed for students, he can used the program as he like in adding E-mail, delete or modify it. They can calculate their GPA & interact through the forum. Also it can be teacher – centered: because instructor can use it & modify its content to her own need.

Interactivity Student- program interact: because students can navigate among the program. Its student- content interacts: because students can modify, delete, add e-mails. Also they can calculate their own GPA for all year of their studying.

Content Sequence At beginning you will see the copy right of product, then small introduction about ILT Department. In menu page you will read about department objectives & You can see courses descriptions through entering its course code and click search to find course descriptions this can be facilitate searching process.

Media Selection The data base will be distributed through CD or Internet or students flash because of this reasons :

Cost: it will just cost the price of CD witch can cost only 2 paisa of each CD.

Accessibility: it’s easy to access either from CD or flash or through downloading the program from internet.

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Social and Political Suitability: the use of CDs is legible in Oman.

Flexibility: CD & FLASH are portable media and it’s flexible in using it.

Effectiveness: because learners can easy use CD to navigate the program & found courses descriptions by entering course code.

Performance objectives:

After using ILT course Catalog, students will be able to:

Demonstrate general information about ILT Department.

Demonstrate general & specific information about ILT Department courses.

Identify total teaching and credit hour of each course in ILT department.

Gain information about the objectives and the content of each course in ILT Department.

Make students aware of the assessment of each course in ILT Department.

Answer the most common questions that faced students in ILT Department.

Match between the ILT courses & its Requirement Courses.

Search among Catalog for courses.

Add important E-Mails to ILT course catalog.

Calculate their GPA by MS Excel program.

Differentiate between Learning Resources Center Specialist & Information Technology Teacher.

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Design:

The design of the program easy to navigate through directions. Students can search about any courses easily. Instructors can modify course, add, delete & search easily. Also, program has a button of help which will be help students in understanding how to use program. The program had designed in:

Software used in preparing this catalog:

Access program: is a relational database management system from Microsoft, packaged with Microsoft Office Professional which combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface.

Visual basic 6 program: is a programming language and development environment created by Microsoft. It is an extension of the BASIC programming language that combines BASIC functions and commands with visual controls. Visual Basic provides a graphical user interface GUI that allows the developer to drag and drop objects into the program as well as manually write program code.

Photoshop program: Image editing software developed and manufactured by Adobe Systems Inc. Photoshop is considered one of the leaders in photo editing software. The software allows users to manipulate, crop, resize, and correct color on digital photos. The software is particularly popular amongst professional photographers.

AAA Logo program: AAA Logo can create almost any type of website graphics or business graphics for high resolution printing. Logos, banners, buttons, headers and icons for your website with rich colors, gradients, shadows and reflections.

CRYSTAL Report program: Crystal Reports is a popular Windows-based report writer (report generation program) that allows a programmer to create reports from a variety of data sources with a minimum of written code.

MS Excel program: is a spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA (Visual Basic for

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Applications). It has been the most widely used spreadsheet application available for these platforms since version 5 in 1993. Excel is part of Microsoft Office.

MS Word program: is Microsoft's word processing software. www . ahlamontada . net : the forum had designed through this

site.

Story board:

See Appendixe5.

Development:

First, I had gathering information from D. Ali AL-Mosawi about ILT department and its plan he had send me an e-mail about all information's I was needed .

Second, I had Get information from SQU website about ILT department & its prerequisites courses.

Searching for a photo of SQU tour through Google image search.

Make an interview with some ILT students to know what they need in the program.

Gathering some visual basic code from internet.

Reading websites about how to link MS Access with visual basic program.

I faced some problem in visual basic so , I had a help from my friend " Amal AL-Ibrahim " a specialist in IT in how to link some code of visual basic to access & how to Moving from a form to another .

I had Design the background by using Adobe Photoshop program.

I had Design the logo for the program by using AAA logo program

Organized text box & label in visual basic form it was easy.

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Then I had but a button to HOME page, search, adding, delete, modify, exit & six button in menu page.

After that I had Link MS Access with visual basic program in all forms, I had faced a lot of difficulties in this stage & I had make a lot of calls to my friend Amal in Salalah to tell me what is the problem I faced now .

After that I had arrange the buttons, forms in a good design.

Change text font, size, button color & background.

After that I had prepare questioner & interview.

Then I had make interviews with some students & collect the questioner.

I had mailed D.Ali AL-Mosawi & ask him some answers about some common questions I had collected from different students.

Then, adding the data to the database.

After that I had go to Dr. Hamd Nasr office asking him about how to link the ILT plan in MS Word program to visual basic program. He was very helpful to me.

Then I had go to Dr. Alaa' Sadik, I had show him my product. He suggested me to add GPA calculator to make the product more interactive for learners.

After that I had made some mathematical operation in a paper a bout how to calculate GPA. It was difficult to me. So I decide to ask a help from D. Ali Mohammed Ibrahim. He told me about some important role in calculating GPA.

Then I had implement the mathematical operation through EXCEL &| it was difficult I had spent a lot of time to fix it. But I still have some problem with IF function so I decided to go to get a help from CET.

I had meet Saood AL-Hashmi the head of the administrative & financial systems division he give an appointment on Monday.

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Then I had met him in Monday he was very kind & helpful after that he mail me about some instruction that had help me.

Then I had edit the designs of MS excel program (GPA).

Make to it some instructions in PhotoShop program & then paste it in other excels spread sheet.

Then I had taken some information from D. Alaa Sadik program of Eight_New Sem Degree Plan about courses types (elective, major & so on). He had e-mail my his project.

I had place the information in MS excel program & arrange it in a good way.

Then I had link it to the visual basic program & link the GPA spread sheet to the main page in Visual basic.

After that, I had gone through Google to read about some visual basic application & I was interested on how to add a watch to the main page.

I try to add different codes to add clock but most of them was failed.

Finally, I had found the correct code & use it to add a clock time & date to the main page.

Then I decide to use www . ahlamontada . net site to make an online forum.

Then I had design it’s a background & buttons by Photoshop. It takes a lot of time to upload background, image & buttons because of internet connection.

Finally, I had save my project by ILT Course catalog name.

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http://www.ahlamontada.net/

Evaluation:

Formative Evaluation:Experts' Revision:This program has been revised by a professor in ILT Department (specialist with databases). The Dr. Alaa' Sadik , he suggested me to make a user name & password for the ability to add , remove & modify course to be used just by instructors & doctors in ILT Department . Also, he advice me to produce a GPA calculator in MS Excel program to make the project more interactive.

Students Reaction:One of my colleagues gives me an opinion to make a page for common questions that faced students in the ILT department. She said that they need more specific information's about courses. Others said that I should make the background more simple & its butter to add impotents e-mail ability.Also, they advice me to include not just courses but also information’s about ILT department.

Note: all these suggestions have been taken into account and the project has been developed according to them.

Summative Evaluation:

I had used “Appendix 4” http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=43q1k5ndm125kqo684950 to measure summative evaluation for ILT Course Catalog program & the results was as the following “Appendix 6”:

Question 1:70% agree that its “ بشدةموافق “.

Qestion2:50% agree that its “ 50“& بشدةموافق % agree that its “موافق “.

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http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=43q1k5ndm125kqo684950


Question 3 : 100% agree that its “ بشدةموافق “.




Question 7:60% agree that its “ 40“& بشدةموافق % agree that its “موافق “.












Question 19:100% agree that its “ بشدة أوافق .“ال

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It seems from the results that most users strongly agree that ILT Course Catalog is very helpful for them either now or in the future & about 100% strongly agree that its content is very clear .also, it seems that 100% of users didn’t faced any technical problems when using ILT Course Catalog program . Moreover, 100% of users agree that the program work correctly & answers many of their common questions.

Constraints & Challenges:

Technical challenges: I had face difficulties in :

o Using visual basic at a first time was very difficult.

o Linking the database in access to visual basic.

o I had face difficulties specially in writing update code &

time clock code.

o I had face difficulties when I want to link the plan of ILT

department in MS Word to visual basic program.

o Adding information’s in access take a lot of time about 5

days.

o I had faced a lot of error when I had debugged the program.

o Writing the mathematical operation for the GPA in MS

Excel was difficult.

o Internet connection was bad when I want to upload

background & buttons in the forum. It was disconnect always.

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Appendixes

Appendix 1:

Needs Analysis Interview

1. From your experience in ILT major, do you think that students in ILT Department especially first year students & graduate school students need to know more about ILT departments & its courses description? If yes, please support your answer with a short explanation?

2. What are the most common questions that you have faced through your learning in the ILT department?

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Appendix 2:

http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=a8bee3kf4qfkoc1684948

الرحيم الرحمن الله بسم

الطالبة.. الطالب/عزيزتي عزيزي تكنولوجيا تخصص في مواده و بتخصصه ملما الطالب جعل نحو سعيا

قسم لمواد ككتلوج برمجية تطوير على قائم العمل فان والتعلم، التعليم على المقررة المواد تفاصيل جميع تشمل التي و والتعلم التعليم اتكنولوجي

التكرم منكم نرجو اإلطار، هذا ومنوالتعلم. التعليم تكنولوجيا طالب المعلومات كافة بأن علما وشفافية، بصدق التالية األسئلة على واإلجابةفقط. العلمي البحث ألغراض استخدامها وسيتم سرية، ستكون

أوافالعبارة ق

بشدة

أوافق

الأوافق

الأواف ق

بشدة

األساسية المهارات لدي يوجد ال.1 )تشغيل الحاسوب مع التعامل في

استخدام الطباعة، الحاسوب،الفأرة...الخ(

بيانات قاعدة تصفح أستطيع.2 بيسك الفيجوال ببرنامج صممت

اختيار في صعوبة أي أواجه ال.3 فصل كل في المواد

المبهمة البيانات من الكثير توجد.4 التعليم تكنولوجيا قسم عن لي

والتعلم تكنولوجيا قسم في كطالب.5

عن معلومات أي اعرف الالتعليم:الحقا بدراستها سأقوم التي المواد

يتم برنامجا الكتالوج يكون أن أحبOذ.6 أن من بدال الحاسوب، في تشغيله

مطبوعا كتابا يكون

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تعاونكم لحسن شكرا

Appendix 3:



الطالبة.. الطالب/عزيزتي عزيزي تكنولوجيا تخصص في مواده و بتخصصه ملما الطالب جعل نحو سعيا

قسم لمواد ككتلوج برمجية تطوير على قائم العمل فان ، والتعلم التعليم على المقررة المواد تفاصيل جميع تشمل التي و والتعلم التعليم تكنلوجيا

التكرم منكم نرجو اإلطار، هذا . ومن والتعلم التعليم تكنولوجيا طالب المعلومات كافة بأن علما وشفافية، بصدق التالية األسئلة على واإلجابةفقط. العلمي البحث ألغراض استخدامها وسيتم سرية، ستكون


بشدة

أوافق

الأوافق

الأواف ق

بشدة

معدلي بحساب أقوم أن أحبذ.1. بنفسي التراكمي و الفصلي

القسم مواد بين التميز أستطيع.2المجالين. لكال

متطلبات بين التمييز السهل من.3 و الكلية متطلبات و القسم

لي. بالنسبة التعلم مصادر مركز على البرنامج يحتوى أن أفضل.4

و التواصل على يساعدني منتدىزمالئي. من الخبرات اكتساب

تعاونكم لحسن شكرا

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Appendix 4:



األفاضل: أعزائي ، التعلم و التعليم تكنولوجيا كتلوج برنامج تحسين و تطوير نحو منا سعيا

التالية األسئلة على واإلجابة التكرم منكم نرجو ، لنا بالنسبة أرائكم وألهمية المعلومات كافة بأن علما... البرنامج على االطالع بعد وشفافية بصدق

فقط. العلمي البحث ألغراض استخدامها وسيتم سرية، ستكون

التعليمية: الناحية من


بشدة

أوافق

الأوافق

الأواف ق

بشدة

اطالعا أكثر البرنامج جعلني.1. تخصصي على

توقعت ما البرنامج في وجدت.2معلومات. من

بمواد ملما البرنامج جعلني.3. تخصصي

البرنامج في المستخدمة اللغة.4. واضحة

لي بالنسبة ممتع البرنامج تصفح.5.

في GPA برنامج استخدام.6

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جدا واضح الدرجات حساب حياتي في البرنامج سيفيدني.7

مستقبال. التعليمية العلمية المادة عامة بصورة.8

جيدة.

: الفنية و التقنية الناحية من


بشدة

أوافق

الأوافق

الأواف ق

بشدة

جيدة. البرنامج وتصميم خلفية.9

جديدة. البرنامج فكرة.10

قائمة على البرنامج يحتوي.11واضحة.

على البرنامج يحتوي.12جيدة. تعليمات

على البرنامج يساعدني.13 من العديد على اإلجابة

تساؤالتي البرنامج تصفح طريقة.14

وسهلة. واضحة بصورة تعمل البرنامج أزرار.15

صحيحة. البرنامج في البحث طريقة.16

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واضحة.. واضح الخط.17

مرتبطة المعلومات.18منطقية. بطريقة

تقنية مشاكل واجهتني.19البرنامج. استخدام عند

تعاونكم لحسن ,, وشكرا

Appendix 5:

Story board

: التالية الصفحة لك ستظهر البرنامج دخول عند

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: " التالية " الصفحة ستظهر دخول زر على الضغط عند

: للبرنامج " " الرئيسية الصفحة ستظهر دخول زر على الضغط عند

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: التالية " الشاشة ستظهر المعتمدة الساعات إجمالي على الضغط عند

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: " التالي " الشكل لنا يظهر دراسية مقررات زر على الضغط عند

" يتم " سوف الدراسية المقررات صفحة في إدخال زر على الضغط عنداسم دخوله يتطلب والذي الدكتور أو بالمعلم الخاص الجزء إلى االنتقال

. مع السابقة الصفحة مثل صفحة ظهرت وإذا المرور كلمة و المستخدم " الصفحة " لنا فتظهر البيانات تجديد مع حذف زر على نضغط بسيط اختالف

التالية:

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محتوى ( التالية الخيارات من خيار أي على نضغط الرئيسية الصفحة منتوصي أهدا فالمادة، محتو فالمقررات، تقوي ىالمقررات، مالمقررات،

: التالية) الشاشة لنا فتظهر المقررات

" أو " بالمعلم الخاص وهو البيانات تجديد و إدخال زر على الضغط وعند: التالية الصفحة لنا تظهر الدكتور

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" الصفحة " لنا تظهر تعليمات زر على الضغط وعند الرئيسية الصفحة منالتالية:

" لنا " يظهر شائعة أسئلة زر على الضغط عن الرئيسية الصفحة من كذلك: التالي الشكل

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" " : تظهر مهمة عناوين زر على الضغط عند الرئيسية الصفحة من أخيرا و: التالية الصفحة لنا

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