Online-based continuous assessment repository for lecturers and students

This paper presents the development of an online-based continuous-assessment repository system designed to cater the needs for both lecturers and students. Conventional methods of notifying continuous assessment marks, e.g. test or assignment marks to students include displaying the students' marks on the bulletin boards or merely by returning the marked tests or assignments to students. While these are common practices, some lecturers are doing a better job by taking advantages of the Internet, i.e. by uploading their students' carry marks onto the student portal or by notifying students about their results via emails. The proposed system offers useful features for lecturers to upload their students' continuous-assessment marks onto an online database. This system provides an interface for the students to view their ongoing assessment marks throughout the semester via a web browser. Being an online-based system, it provides 24 hours access for students via any types of electronic devices with data connection that are able to run a web-browser. This system offers additional advantages when compared with other online systems, where it does not only display the raw marks obtained by students, but also the analysis of the marks and targeted final exam mark based on currently achieved marks. Having such a system will benefit not only the students but also for the faculty to progressively monitor students' performance throughout the semester.