Philippine E-Journals

DIGITAL STUDENT HANDBOOK OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FOR ANDROID

Exander T. Barrios | Kristine Joy U. Iyo | Lyndelle Lianne F. Pangolibay | Irvin Tanutan

 

Abstract:

The primary purpose of the study was to develop a tool that will take advantage of the fact that many students of the University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC) bring their cellular phones or tablets everyday, and that they prefer the student handbook be installed on their gadgets rather than be made available as a hard copy. Thus, a digital student handbook software was created for Android devices. This was developed following a Rapid Action Development (RAD) method which is a proven and tested software development process model. The analysis phase of the chosen process model involved the identification of ways in which the contents of the student handbook are presented in a more readable way, which included convenient content-searching mechanisms compared to a portable document format (PDF) file. Designs were made to follow the results of the analysis. After developing the tool, a Black Box Testing was done, and an assessment was made for 404 respondents, and 97.71% of the respondents agreed that the tool helped provide guidance for the students’ formation and encouraged them to read, understand, and appreciate the contents of the handbook, as well as adapt to the culture of the university.