IT Solutions Development and Design, DSS, ESS, TPS, MIS, KMS, Globalisation and IT Effects, Digital Infrastructure and Examples

BSC (Hons) BUSINESS MANAGEMENT WITH
FOUNDATION
SEMESTER 1, EXAMINATION 2021/22
NFORMATION SYSTEM & BIG DATA ANALYSIS
MODULE NO: BMP4005
Exam Paper Release Date & Time: Saturday 06 August 2022 at 10:00am
Submission Cut-off Date & Time: Monday 08 August 2022 at 10:00am
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Section A
1.0 Explain about the methods, theories and techniques which is related to the development and
design for two of the IT solutions

1 McAfee
2 Moodle
3 Canvas
4 MS Office
Moodle: It is basically the free and the management system of the open source
learning which has been written in PHP and also distributed under the general public
license. Moodle is used for the purpose of distance education, blended learning,
flipped classroom and the other online learning schemes in universities, schools and
other sectors as well. It also act as the platform for online learning which enables to
create the courses on the online basis, keep an eye on the progress of students (Athaya
and et.al., 2021). (Sparviero., 2019). It also gives the permission to the students to
communicate and also encourages the communication between them in the
discussions and forums. It can be used in the form of creating the websites with
courses on the online basis and also allows for the community-sourced plug ins. It s
development began in the year of 1999 and also it has been translated into over
hundred different languages. Moodle moots are the conferences which has been
organised by the Moodle researchers and customers. It also organised by the large
organisations or other universities as well. It has been observed in the U.S. country
that there were top three learning management systems by the number of institutions
which includes Canvas, Black board and Moodle. So from the learning perspective
Moodle is very important and it has been required on the necessary basis.
Canvas: It basically refers to the web-based learning management system and it has
been used various kind of people, authorities and offices. It includes the learning
institutions, students, educators in order to manage and access the online course
learning materials. It also communicate about the learning development and skill
development as well. Canvas basically include different varieties of management tools
and customizable course creation, statistics, user analytics and internal
communication tools. From the institution perspective, it is a reliable web-based
software which allows the institutions in order to manage the digital learning, present
the online learning materials and evaluate the student learning as well(Hwang and et.al.,
2018).There are certain features of canvas which include instructional designers, built
in course construction and management tools which can be customised in order to
create accessible and unique learning and teaching experiences. With support of
canvas, instructors can give their constructive feed back to their students on the
assignments and quiz submissions with support of speed grader and also mange the
grade reporting in the Grade book of Canvas. It can also facilitate the real time course
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interactions with support of chat and also communicate the updates and course news
with students with support of announcements, calendar and syllabus. It also include
Canvas app Centre where designers, admins and instructors also different kind of
external apps and services. In this manner, canvas has been used from the
perspective of learning and development of students into result oriented terms with
the right kind of approach.
2.0 Explain and give examples for each of the system which is given into the following manner:
I DSS(Decision support system)
II ESS (Executive support system)
III TPS( Transaction processing system)
IV MIS (Management information system)
V KSM( Knowledge management system)
DSS(Decision Support System): It is an application of computer program which has
been used to improve the organisation’s capabilities of decision-making. It also
evaluates the large scale of data and presents the company with the best possible
options which is available into result oriented terms (Sudarso., 2022).The support system
of decision also brings together the knowledge and data from different sources and
areas in order to provide the users with information beyond the usual summaries and
reports as well. It has been intended in order to support the people for making the
informed decisions.
ESS (Executive Support System): It is also known as the executive information
system which is a kind of support system of management which support and
facilitates senior executive information and decision making requirements (Mahato and
Singh., 2019). It also gives the easy access to external and internal information which is
related to the goals of the organisation. It is basically considered as the specialised
form of decision support system. It also gives major emphasis on the easy to use user
interfaces and graphical displays as well.
TPS (Transaction Processing System): It is an information processing system for
the transactions of business which involves the modification, collection and retrieval of
all the data transaction. There are certain characteristics of transaction processing
system which include reliability, performance and consistency as well(Tummers and
et.al., 2019). TPS is also called as the real time or transaction processing as well. It is the
processing system which are often contrasted with the process system of batch and
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