National University of Singapore School of Computing

IT5004 Enterprise Systems Architecture Fundamentals Final Assessment

This final assessment is meant to be an open-ended study to assess your analytical and design skills in enterprise system development. It aims to simulate the real-world requirement gathering, analysis, and design process. You will take on the role of a business analyst to come up with the necessary documentation which will lead to the development of a real-world information system.

As the time given for this assessment is very short compared to a real-life requirement gathering, you will just focus on a few important documentations rather than everything about the system.

NUS has been ramping up its executive education courses in recent years. As there are many courses offered by different faculties, NUS hopes to implement a lifelong learning portal that centralizes all these executive education training efforts.

The platform would provide a catalog of all these courses and provide all the features to allow the faculties to manage the running of these training1. NUS heard that you have recently taken IT5004 and decided to engage you to analyze the requirements and design such a system.

The idea is still in its infancy stage so NUS is open to any idea that is viable and can translate into actual system implementation. They have identified 3 main types of users for this portal namely:

1. Faculty Admin Staff

2. Learners

3. NUS Admin Staff

   Faculty Admin Staff: The portal should allow the faculty admin staff to list courses online and allow them to manage the running of these courses. Note that some of these courses are subjected to subsidies/government funding so to comply with the requirements lay out by the funding body, the faculty would often have to ensure that the learners satisfy a certain percentage of attendance and pass the assessments (so that the learners can do the claims on the platform later).

   Learners: You can assume that the learners are mainly adult learners who are using this platform to apply for executive education courses rather than full-time degree programs (such as bachelor’s and master’s). The rationale for having a separate registration/enrollment platform is that these courses are often funded by the government to some extent (e.g. by SkillsFuture) rather than fully self-funded by the learners. While only certain individuals (such as Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs)) qualify for these funding support, a large percentage of the participants are eligible. Thus, it is a good idea to simplify the process by requiring even other individuals (who are not eligible for these funding) to still use this platform to register and pay for these courses through the platform.

   1 This includes collecting payment, attendance taking, getting the student list, etc. However, you can assume that this system will not be used by the course instructors. I.e. The instructors and students will be using another Learning Management System (LMS) such as Canvas to download teaching materials, submit assignment, etc. This platform should mainly focus on the administrative aspects of running the courses.

   NUS Admin Staff: The NUS admin staff team would be managing every aspect of the site such as adding faculty admin staff user accounts, moderating the course description, etc.

   To help you in the process of gathering and analyzing the requirements, the site should be similar to https://www.myskillsfuture.gov.sg/content/portal/en/index.html. However, unlike the MySkillsFuture portal, this portal would only be used by NUS. It should also provide other features beyond just providing a catalog of courses such as allowing learners to register and pay for courses, allowing faculty to specify the enrollment quota, etc.

   For this project, your task is to research online and come up with the requirements of this portal. You are not expected to (and should not) interview stakeholders to come up with the requirements. The specific deliverables are shown on the next page but before that, you should have a clear idea of the concept of this platform.

   Apart from the high-level objectives discussed above, NUS does not have the exact list of requirements for such a portal, and you are free to design it according to how you deem appropriate.

   In terms of grading for this final assessment, more emphasis will be given to the completeness of the analysis rather than the innovativeness of the solution. For example, you are not expected to have a very big scope but the use cases should be able to support every aspect of the business processes. Ideally providing all the use cases to support the entire end-to-end business processes of helping learners decide on which course(s) to take, enrolling in the courses, starting the courses, and finishing the courses.

   As explained above, this platform is not intended to be a Learning Management System (LMS) like Canvas so you should avoid proposing features that are already offered by Canvas.

   D. Tasks

For this final assessment, you are to create a single document (pdf format) with the documentation of 3 major tasks. When coming up with the design of the system, you should incorporate the following:

• Exhaustive (do not miss out on any features)

• Try to incorporate innovative features and/or innovative workflow

• Feasible. The idea and system design should be something that can be translated into an actual system.

• Flexible. Think about different edge situations and try to address them.

This final assessment contributes 50% to the final course grade. The total mark for this assessment is 50 marks.

Task 1 (15 marks): Come up with a use case diagram that contains all the use cases and actors. You should choose use case names that are indicative of the feature that you are envisioning. For features which might not be clearly expressed through the use case name, you should consider drawing one or more activity diagrams to describe the business process flow. Should you need to make any assumptions, you can note them down together with the use case diagrams in a separate table or section.

Task 2 (15 marks): Come up with (multiple) wireframes and/or activity diagrams to describe the system design and business processes. When drawing the wireframe, you could use arrows and add descriptions to describe how one would be using the solution. You can also include any other information to make things clearer (e.g. what is the idea or how does the system works).

Task 3 (20 marks): Come up with a domain model class diagram containing all the entities and their associations that are based on the above use cases/design. Should you need to make any assumptions, you can note them down together with the domain model case diagrams in a separate table or section.

Create a single PDF document that contains your answers to the above 3 tasks. You are highly encouraged to use software to generate the diagrams, but handwritten diagrams are also accepted. However, you must ensure that the diagrams exported are of high quality. Diagrams that cannot be read clearly will be ignored in the marking. Please upload the softcopy of your document:

Deadline: 30 Apr 11:59 pm

Canvas Assignment: Final Assessment

The folder will auto-close by the deadline. If you are unable to complete your solutions before the deadline, you should submit what you have. We will NOT accept any submissions after the deadline.

The University takes a serious view of plagiarism or any other form of academic dishonesty. This includes seeking assistance from third parties outside this module (e.g., classmates, friends, or industry practitioners). You should also refrain from using AI generation tools such as (but not limited to) ChatGPT as this would likely result in similar solutions. Students who are caught cheating, copying work done by someone else, or engaging third parties (including AI-generation tools) to participate in any aspects of the assessment will be severely dealt with. You can be certain that you will be given a FAIL grade for this module. Please take this warning seriously.