E- NOTICE BOARD

Abstract

Our project is an on-line notice board where a group of people can easily communicate with each other by sticking or posting virtual notes, announcements and information. The main objective was to design an e-notice board, which enables students and staff post and receive the notices from the college, anywhere, anytime about events and communications going on at the college. For the specific objectives, the system requirements elicitation phase, qualitative and quantitative data was collected through focus group discussions and questionnaires. An analytical study and scrutiny of existing traditional cardboard notice boards was undertaken to inform the requirements of a new system. Data flow diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams were employed to enable design and modeling of relationships between entities and attributes of the system. The system was implemented using a number of tools and technologies such as MySQL, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, D3js and Ajax. For testing and validating the system, questionnaires were designed and hands on experimentation done and results analyzed. More work needs to be done in areas like developing a mobile app for the e-notice board to increase user outreach to information. Further a messaging functionality need to incorporated to enable users receive information using GSM functionality.