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Beaver is a comprehensive web-based platform designed to streamline the management and administration of academic programs within an educational institution or department. This system aims to enhance the overall educational experience by providing students, instructors, administrators, program coordinators, and quality assurance officers with a set of powerful tools and features to support their respective roles and responsibilities.
Some of the features of Beaver include:
- Homepage - This is the initial page that is presented to the user once they access the system. It serves as a central hub from which the user is able to access other pages. Moreover, the page displays more details on the program objectives as well as the significance of performance measurement and assessment.
- Academic Program: This page provides detailed information concerning the given academic program to the user. Some of these details include the objectives and the courses offered within the program.
- Courses: On this page, students (users) can view a list of the various courses available, access materials for a given course, get to know the course instructors and interact with fellow peers using the communication module within the system.
- Mapping: As various objectives are recorded onto the system, they are linked with the various related courses and exams, making it clear what each course offers and what each exam examines an individual.
- Examinations and Assessments: Instructors can create exams for various courses within the system, associate them with courses and program objectives, and track student performance over time.
- User Accounts: The administrator can set up accounts, or and manage the access of various personnel onto the system. Some of the user roles include students, instructors, administrators, program coordinators, and quality assurance officers.
The system is meant to be used by various users in varying capacities and each should be able to accomplish various responsibilities or and have access to given information that they are authorized to access. Some of the roles include:
This is the primary user of the system. The student should be able to access program and course information, undertake exams and view assessment results, interact with instructors and peers on the communication module, and login to access the system.
An instructor is the personnel that is responsible for the teaching of a given course as well as definition of the course content. Some other roles of the instructor include:
- Teaching
- Defining course objectives
- Coming up with exams and corresponding assessment in line with the course objectives
- Grade students and provide elaborate feedback on their performance.
- Track and monitor student’s performance over time
The program coordinator has the following mandates:
- Oversee the running of a given academic program.
- Ensure that the various program objectives are in line with the present-day industry standards and institution goals
- Collaborate with instructors in the shaping of various programs.
- Monitor the performance of students within a given program.
As the name goes, these roles entail quality control within the institution. Some of the roles of the officer include:
- Ensure a high quality with regards to the various programs in place
- Monitor student performance data and use it accordingly in implementation of proper quality control.
- Work hand in hand with instructors to better the various courses and programs in place.
- Ensure compliance with regards to various accreditations, and industry standards
- Occasionally review course content and assessments ensuring they are up to date.
The administrator is tasked with overall control and management of the system, creation of user accounts, definition of user permissions and corresponding authorizations, customization of the web application settings, generation of reports and general analytics within the system.