Designing user roles and content sharing workflow for web content management system in higher education

• Main Author: Mohammed Amin, Brzu Tahir
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35834/5/BrzuTahirMohammedAminMFSKSM2013.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/35834/; http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:70132?site_name=Restricted Repository
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Web content management system has significant roles in higher education for content sharing among students, and promotes higher education to a higher level of study. The main idea of this thesis was to design a user roles, and content sharing workflow for web content management system in higher education. The current web content management system was used in most of a university in the world, but the existing CMS did not fully support the requirement of a university community such as students, staff and alumni. Most of university communities have a different kind of user’s categories like a prospective students, current students and alumni students, and they need tools for doing content sharing, and user management among them. For that reason, this research has designed user roles and content sharing workflows specify for prospective students, current students, and alumni students in university environment. This prototype has been designed and developed to support the content sharing among prospective students, current students, and alumni students, and user management among them, which is based on time. For evaluation the researcher toke 33 students of Faculty of Civil Engineering for user performance test, and prepare the questionnaire based on (Functionality, Usefulness, and User Satisfaction).