A- PROBLEM DEFINITION

Assignment Submission and Evaluation Project, ASEP, is aimed to solve the above problems in an effective way by automating the submission and evaluation processes. Simply, by using ASEP, the students will be able to submit their assignments electronically over the network and see the grades of their assignments and the attached feedback data whenever they want. The instructors or assistants will be able to evaluate and grade the submitted assignments, and give feedback to their students in a more easy and efficient.

ASEP is not designed to work for a specific course and teacher. Many students, assistants and instructors will use ASEP. A main server program will provide the required services to the users and all the needed data will be stored on this server machine.

B- USER PROFILE

Students, assistants, and instructors are the potential users of the system. A student may be enrolled in several courses. A course is taught by only one instructor and has only one assistant. On the other hand, an instructor can teach several courses and an assistant can assist to more than one courses at the same time.

User Needs

•  Students want to be able to submit their assignments whenever they want before the deadline.
• Students want to be sure that their assignments go to the right place in a secure way.
• Students want to see the results of their assignments (their grades and any feedback data) easily whenever they want.
• Students want to do their job without any difficulty in a short time.
• Students want the program to provide guidance when they need any help.
• The assistant wants the program to store the submitted assignments in an organized way.
• The assistant wants to do his/her job without any difficulty in a short time.
• The assistant wants a very flexible program to customize it in a specific way.
• The assistant does not want to deal with any problems of the students related to the system.
• The assistant wants to inform any student easily when it is necessary. (For feedback or warning etc.)
• The teacher only wants to get general information about students and overall grades when he wants.
• The teacher wants to inform any student easily when it is necessary. (For feedback or warning etc.)
• The teacher wants to be able to see and evaluate the assignments whenever he/she wants.