Development of The E-BIGV System

Abstract

The aim of the study is to develop Bina Insan Guru Vokasional (BIGV) management system on behalf of the management, lecturers, and students involved in the course. The system will be developed to manage files, information search, and information dissemination. The study seeks to achieve three (3) main objectives: (i) to design an E-BIGV management system, (ii) to develop an E-BIGV management system and (iii) to evaluate the functionality of the E-BIGV system by experts. The design-and-development research methodology used to develop this system is the prototype model methodology, which consists of four phases: planning, analysis, design, and implementation. A qualitative method was adopted by means of interviews to gather information. The platform adopted to develop the system is Adobe Dreamweaver, which is used to write programs in the HyperText Preproccessor (PHP) and to store the user’s database using the XAMPP platform. The development of the E-BIGV system was evaluated by three (3) experts consisting of two (2) lecturers with a background in information technology and a BIGV coordinator in-charge of the BIGV administration. All three (3) experts were given an expert checklist according to their expertise. The expert checklist contains four (4) main sections: demographics, interface design, system’s functionality design, and system’s content design. Analysis of the expert checklist responses indicates that the design aspect of the interface received 66.7% of agreement while the system’s design aspects and system’s content design received 100% agreement in terms of appropriateness. These findings indicate that the E-BIGV system developed can facilitate information management and retrieval.