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Online Student Enrolment System at ABC University
ABC University (ABCU) is seeking to develop an online student enrolment system (the System)
whereby the students would be able to enrol themselves into eligible subjects at the beginning of each
trimester and pay their tuition fees online. You have been hired as the Business Analyst for this project.
Founded in Sydney in 2013, ABCU has experienced a remarkable growth in student numbers in recent
years and has opened new campuses in three other Australian cities including Melbourne, Brisbane
and Adelaide. ABCU cu
ently has 50,000 students across their four campuses with an estimated 5000
student in-take in each trimester. This phenomenal growth in their student numbers has necessitated
the need for an online student enrolment system. Once developed, this system will replace the manual
enrolment process that is cu
ently in place. The cu
ent manual enrolment process is labour-
intensive, e
or-prone, and rather inefficient as it requires the Student Enrolment Officers to manually
enrol each student into the subjects upon the receipt of a study plan from the students.
The Pro Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) envisage an online student enrolment system which
would allow students to complete their enrolments and tuition fee payments before the Census date.
The System should not only enable Student Enrolment Officers of each School to create, edit and
emove Courses offered by their School but also to create, edit and remove core subjects and electives
offered in each course. The students should be able to access the system through a device of their
choice (e.g. desktop web
owser, mobile phone or tablet app).
Most subjects would have pre-requisites that must be satisfied before the students are eligible to
enrol in the subject. It would be the responsibility of the Program Directors to provide and update the
elevant course and subject information including the descriptor, availability (i.e. whether a subject or
a course is offered in a certain trimester) and the prerequisites.
The Timetabling Officers may also create, edit and remove timetables for each available Subject
through the new System. Each campus will hold multiple classes for the same subject. A Subject is
offered in the form of classes. Each campus may offer multiple classes for the same Subject.
Once logged into the System, students should be able to view all the available subjects, enrol in and
drop subjects. The System will detect timetable clashes and prevent students from enrolling into
subjects that clash.
The System should not let students to enrol in too many or few subjects unless they have an increased
or reduced study load approved by the Student Enrolment Officer. Once the enrolment has been
completed the system will generate a timetable customised to each individual student outlining the
class times and locations. The System will then prompt the students to pay their tuition fees through
a secure payment process.
The System should be able to send email reminders to students who have not completed the
enrolment process by a designated deadline. It should also allow the Student Enrolment Officers and
Program Directors to generate customized reports (e.g. a report showing a total number of students
enrolled in a particular subject or a course).
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Task Summary
In response to the issues raised in the ‘online university enrolment system’ case study provided,
identify the functional and non-functional requirement for an online enrolment system and build and
document a set of use cases for that system.
Context
Requirement analysis techniques and skills are of fundamental importance to a Business Analyst, who
is often required to help business users in terms of identifying what they really need in their new
systems. This assessment allows you to enhance your requirement analysis techniques and skills by
capturing the business requirement of a system, identify “what” the proposed system will do, “how”
the system will perform those tasks, and communicate the identified requirement through a set of
use case diagrams and their associated documentations.
ASSESSMENT 1 BRIEF
Subject Code and Title MIS605 Systems Analysis and Design
Assessment Written assessment
Individual/Group Individual
Length 2000 words
Learning Outcomes The Subject Learning Outcomes demonstrated by successful
completion of the task below include:
a) Identify, critically evaluate and recommend information
systems solutions for inefficiencies in business processes,
procedures and work practices using data and process
modelling techniques.
) Formulate, validate and document business requirements
for a medium-scale information system development
project and effectively communicate these requirements to
the stakeholders.
c) Demonstrate the ability to effectively analyse, design and
develop information systems using Unified Modelling
Language (UML) models.
Submission Due by 11:55pm AEST Sunday end of Module 3.1
Weighting 30%
Total Marks 100 marks
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Instructions
1. Please read the attached MIS605_ Assessment 1_Case Study. Note that every piece of
information provided in the following case serves a purpose.
2. Once you have completed reading the case study. Please answer the following questions:
Question 1.
(a) Who are the stakeholders in this project? Please list at least four stakeholders. (2 marks)
(b) Who are the Actors in this System? Please list at least four actors (4 mark)
Question 2.
Identify and list at least TEN (10) major functional requirements for the System. (20 marks)
Question 3.
Using your own experience with similar online student enrolment systems and the information
provided in the case study, identify and list at least FIVE (5) non-functional requirements for the
System. Explain and justify each non-functional requirement. (20 marks)
Question 4.
Using your own experience with similar online student enrolment systems and the information
provided in the case study, build a comprehensive set of use case diagrams for the System using MS
Visio. (30 marks)
Please note that the case study has not and does not intend to provide a comprehensive description
of requirements for the System. This means that you are required to use your own experience with
information systems in general and online student enrolment systems in particular to develop this set
of use case diagrams. For example, would Student Enrolment Officers be required to log into the
System before performing any tasks?
Question 5.
Based on the use case diagrams you built in Question 4, develop and document two elaborated use
cases. For each of the two use cases, please document the following:
Use Case Name (1 mark each)
ID (1 mark each)
Priority (1 mark each)
Actor (1 mark each)
Description (1 mark each)
Trigger (1 mark each)
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Precondition (1 mark each)
Normal Course (2 marks each)
Alternative courses (1 mark each)
Postconditions (1 mark each)
Exceptions (1 mark each)
(24 marks)
3. Please note that your answers must relate to the case study provided.
Word Count and Layout
The total word count for the written assessment should be no more than 2000 words.
Please provide all your answers in a MS word document.
Please note that you are NOT required to copy the questions over to the MS Word document.
Use the question number to indicate which question your answer relates to.
The recommended font size is 12 with 1.5 spacing.
Referencing
It is essential that you use appropriate APA style for citing and referencing research. Please see more
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eferencing
Submission Instructions
Please submit the written assessment via the Assessment link within Assessment 1. The Learning
Facilitator will provide feedback via the Grade Centre in the LMS portal. Feedback can be viewed in
My Grades.
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Marking Criteria F P C D HD
Subject Learning Outcome:
a) Identify, critically evaluate and recommend information systems solutions for inefficiencies in
usiness processes, procedures and work practices using data and process modelling
techniques.
Identify at least four stakeholders.
Identify at least four actors including both human and non-human.
6%
Subject Learning Outcome:
a) Identify, critically evaluate and recommend information systems solutions for inefficiencies in
usiness processes, procedures and work practices using data and process modelling