Student Portal Chp 1

Project Context

Web portals have risen in popularity as a way of collecting, organizing and presenting content in a highly uniform, customizable and personalized way. As the technologies that enable the creation and management of these web portals have evolved, it is not only information content that is being offered, but application functionality as well. A web portal is a single web interface that provides personalized access to information, applications, business processes and much more. It is a website that provides content and application functionality in a way that is both useful and meaningful to the end user.

According to ERCIM NEWS Online Edition, An Educational Portal has been developed to address the needs of the educational community. It provides various online community facilities and access to educational resources for supporting collaboration, assistive learning and teaching practices. This effort addresses a crucial educational challenge, which is to maximize access to the information resources required to improve existing teaching, learning and research practices in education, and aims to establish a technologically aware society. In the world of education technology is being adapted in the teaching and learning experience for students to cope up with the widely spreading technology. Universities have student portals to teacher/professors to communicate with students enrolled in the school or university. As years go by, there comes a time when all schools will be equipped with student portals just like Eleap, UPOU, UBaguio, and DLSU-D that provides fast communication and real time announcements to all the people around the University through internet or WIFI connection on the browser. Student Information Portals are widely applied.

With this kind of software, people who log online can get response in a short time after sending information which is a way to real-time communication and updates. Real time database and presence-information are the...