Web application for academic management — A case study

Over the past few years there has been an increasing use of informatics means in the school, as an essential mechanism to make the much desired change and modernization. However, this not translated into a simplification of administrative procedures. This paper describes a project that aims to focus the entire evaluation process in a single web application, allowing create autonomous mechanisms of information processing and statistical inherent in the evaluation process, production graphics, notifications, reports and communications, in order to reduce dispersion and redundancy of documents and thus improve the productivity of school teachers. The set of data produced will support the necessary information to external evaluation of institutions. The application was developed considering as a case study the Arronches Group of Schools, which is currently implementing what Improvement Action Plan, among other things, aims to improve the levels of success to Portuguese and Mathematics disciplines. Results of the initial evaluations, performed by end-users, are positive, nevertheless it's important that the platform is tested and monitorized for a year to improve its efficiency and expand testing to other schools to adapt it to other realities.