Providers Management For a subsidiary of a New Zealand university and tertiary education provider specialising in motivational and educational learning for more than 36000 adult learners, NuNet developed a student management system that is extensively used by the providers and franchises of the educational programs for managing, monitoring and administering their students. On completion of this program, the students will acquire a national certificate in employment skills at level 2 with certification in computer competency and the accreditation from New Zealand Qualifications Authority. Complexities Complex data generation for factor and forecast tables, invoice generation based on visits made by tutors, graphical reporting using .Net built-in packages and drag-and-drop feature in web-based environment are some of the complexities that have been effectively addressed by NuNet in the application development. The system was built on Microsoft ASP. Net environment using VB.Net, MS SQL and MD5, the application is web based that has secure access to educational providers/franchises in administering the students.

Solution Provided

The system assists the providers in administering students, enables to view student batch in each month directly from the live database of the university, manage & track student movements and transfers in and out of their region. Staff management system has been incorporated to monitor performance of staff and ascertain number of their visits outstanding per batch, streamline the provider's interaction with the university. Limited leave management system is also provided to manage staff leave requests. eMail communication and notice board has been built to share the information among the staff and enabling messaging across the provider's franchise network. Incorporation of a scheduler that will assign tutors to students and schedule/manage appointments. Asset management functionality that will manage and track the assets (teaching aids, resources etc) distributed to staff.

The success of this application has prompted the client to enhance the scope of the existing system to include a number of new features, display of customized forecast reporting with enhanced staff and leave management system, student enrolment forms etc. The application is actively considered for re-licensing to other tertiary educational providers in New Zealand.