Designing an Online Education System for AusEd

The assignment involves designing an online education system for AusEd, a non-profit organization in Australia. The system should enable students to register, select courses, download materials, participate in online lectures, and make payments. The design should include entity-relationship diagrams, data dictionaries, and system constraints to ensure efficient performance, security, and integrity of student and tutor data.

Running head: INTERNET AUSED INC
Internet AusEd Inc
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note

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Project Preliminaries Description
Purpose and Scope of the problem
The main purpose of the project is to develop a system for AusEd to provide the students
across Australia would be able to study and enroll themselves for the online course. This system
would be able to provide the student the flexibility of studying from any location of their choice.
Business Context
The AusEd Company is a non-profit organization based in Australia. They intend on
providing the student across whole to Australia to receive education online. The system would
also enable the organization to follow the Australia Corporation Act of 2001. In addition to this,
for the business procedures the organization is divided into three sections: Sales, Courses,
Delivery and Operations.
System Service
Scope of the system
The system would provide the students in Australia to opt for the distance education
programs from any location across Australia, New Guinea and also the South Pacific Islands.
They can pursue their education using various methods such as the online discussion programs,
e-libraries and direct communication with the lecturer.

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Context Diagram
Figure 1: Context Diagram
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Context Diagram description
The main system adopted by the organization is Internet AusEd Online Education
System. The main entities involved with the system are management, teaching staffs and
students. The management includes the administration and sales staffs. The teaching staffs

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consists of the academic staffs. All the details of the entities are stored in the system and the
details can be used by the different entities of the system.
Function requirements
The main functional requirement of the system are:
 The students would be able to register themselves for the online course in the system
 The system should mention all the information about the students
 The system should maintain the course details
 The system should maintain the details of the teaching staffs
 The teaching staffs should be able to communicate with the students online

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Use case
Figure 2: Use Case
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Use Case Description
Use case Actors Description
Registration Student,
Administrative
The student would be able to register themselves
for the course

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Staff
Course Selection Student The student will be allowed to select the course
Download Materials Student The students would be able to download the study
materials
Online lectures Student,
Teaching Staffs
The online lectures would be provided by the
teachers to the students
Payments Student,
Administrative
Staff
The payment done by the students would be
received by the administrative staffs
Enter Tutor Details Administrative
Staff, Teaching
staffs
The admins would be storing the details of the
tutors
Provide Notes Teaching Staffs The teachers would be providing the notes
Receive Payments Administrative
Staff, Teaching
staffs
The payment made by the system would be
received by the teaching staffs
Record course
Details
Administrative
Staff
The entire details of the course of the student would
be recorded by the staffs
Data requirement statement
The system needs to store the data about the students, teaching staffs and the course in
their database.

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ER-Diagram
Figure 3: ER Diagram
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Data Dictionaries
Entity Attribute Type Value Null
Teaching Staffs TeacherId Int No
TeacherName Varchar 20 No
CourseId Int No
Course CourseId Int No
CourseName Varchar 20 No
Charge Varchar 20 No

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Students StudentId Int No
StudentName Varchar 20 No
Contact Number 10,2 No
LocationId Int No
CourseId Int No
Invoice InvoiceId Int No
StudentId Int No
CourseId Int No
TeacherId Int No
AdminId Int No
Location LocationId Int No
LocationName Varchar 20 No
Administrator AdminId Int No
AdminName Varchar 20 No
System Constrains
Performance Requirements
The system performances should be efficient so that the system does not lag as the
system has to perform real time activities.

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Security requirements
The system would be containing a huge amount of data for the students as well as the
tutors. They would also hold a large amount of organization data. Hence, data integrity and
security is very important criterion for the system.
Operational Requirements
The system should be able to perform all the functionalities such as online lectures and
blogs for the students.
Political and Other requirements
The system should be able to perform all the activities so that the system can maintain
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act (2011).