Análisis, diseño e implementación de un E-LEARNING en el área de ciencias naturales del ciclo básico en el Colegio Nacional Femenino 11 de Marzo

Abstract

“11 DE MARZO” National Female High School, is an Educational Institution that gives its services to the female teenagers from 12 to 20 years old. The High School teaches socials, accounting and management; it uses pedagogic processes and update processes, by means of theoretical and practical knowledge and permanent evaluations. The educational community offer quality of life of their relatives and of the society. This Institution suggests to create a software application to teach to the students for computer. It use a traditional form to teach to the students, that means when the teacher take a test, he says the questions and all the students write down that questions in a piece of paper, then the teacher gives to them time in order to they can answer the questions. Later, the teacher has a very difficult job, because they must to give a grade for every single question of every single test and give back to his students. The biggest problem here is the time, that job is during so much. We had to do a feasibility research, because we need to know if our thesis was necessary for the high school. Our research has three levels:  Operative feasibility  Technical feasibility  Economic feasibility Later, we did a document called SRS, which means Software Requirements Specifications. This document is a guide about the software functionality, but is not like a manual, this is for people that have another level of knowledge. The designs of the methodology OOHDM that have developed are: conceptual design, navigational design, design of the abstract interface and design of the database that give us a perspective of what is going to realize the software and like it will be constituted. Later we proceed to the development of the software. The SIEE software (this is name or our software) is a tool that works whit three profiles: Administrator Profile, Teacher Profile and Student Profile. In the Administrator Profile we can manage all the information about students, teachers, subjects, level and important dates. In the Teacher Profile we can manage all the information about the tests, activity’s chronogram, tutorial; we can see statistics about grades of the students and print them. Finally, in the Student Profile we can make the test, we can see our grades, print them; we can see the activity’s chronogram and see test’s day. In the first page of SIEE we can see general information about the high school. We can search all the tutorials and information about the subject. When we were doing this application we had to use some important tools like: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, XAMPP for programming implementation, MySQL for the database, the Apache Web Server, PHP and PERL for interpret for script languages, OpenSSL and phpMyAdmin too. The tests that have been done are the black box and system. In the system tests there are the tests of recovery, of safety, of resistance and of performance that help us to correct the presented problems and that have allowed us to check the correct functioning of the system.