NOVEL TECHNOLOGY SMARTAL (STUDENT MANAGEMENT PORTAL): FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS TO DEVELOP THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DIAGNOSIS MODULE
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2010-03
Authors
RAJAMANICAM, ROSHINI
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This dissertation is a business plan cum research to market a product, Student
Management Portal (SMaRtal) by a company called Novel Technology. This company is
founded by three partners, Siti Noor Arfah, Nethanjali Manoharan and Roshini Rajamanicam.
The company intends to market the product to the education sector in Malaysia mainly to the
schools and the parents of school children. SMaRtal consists of main system which will be
installed in schools upon schools' agreement to purchase the system and add-on modules,
Student Problem Analyzer, Student Career Guidance and English Language Diagnosis Module
which will be marketed to the school children's parents. The target market of the company is the
corporate-owned schools and government schools as well as the parents of the school children.
The estimated sales for the year 2011, 2012 and 2013 are RM93,550, RM229,850 and
RM416,360 respectively. The second component of the dissertation is focused on the preliminary
study by the partners and individual researcher. The preliminary study is being conducted by the
three members (Siti Noor Arfah Vmar, Roshini Rajamanicam and Nethanjali Manoharan) to
know the user pains of the existing system, Sistem Maklumat Murid (SMM). Survey
methodology was used to get information from the teachers. The survey conducted supports the
objective and helps to continue with the development of the SMaRtal. For the individual
research, the objective is to analyze the functional requirements needed to develop a system that
diagnose student's problem in learning English Language. There are four problems in learning
English Language which deals with linguistic, grammatical, cultural and psychological. The
methodology used to analyze the functional requirements is focused interview using five
investigation steps. The steps are preliminary preparation, sampling, data collection, data
analysis and conclusion. Sample respondent of the interview is the experts in teaching English
Language in schools. The results of the interview revealed that grammatical and linguistic are the
main problems faced by the students. This indicates the system that needs to be designed must
incorporate the grammatical and linguistic structure assessments. The outcome of the research is
Functional Flow Diagram (FFD).
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NOVEL TECHNOLOGY , FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT