Implementación de una aplicación web para gestión de portafolios académicos de la Facultad de Ingeniería Civil usando la metodología swirl

Abstract

In Ecuador, the design and implementation of web platforms in the educational field has had enormous growth in recent years, and more and more universities are opting to automate their academic processes, included in the higher education plan. Despite the fact that there are multiple development tools that facilitate the creation of dynamic websites, expert systems are required capable of centralizing the academic evidence of students during a certain period, for which different specific software designs are proposed. Currently, the Technical University of Machala has a MOODLE web platform for the dynamic learning environment called EVEA UTMACH, aimed at managing academic resources, such as autonomous work, class workshops, evaluations, teaching materials, etc. , which are analyzed by the teacher in a virtual way and the respective qualification is raised to the educational system during a certain time but once the academic period is over, all this information is not structured following the format or model of Academic Portfolio proposed by the university. For this reason, the student usually registers all the work evidences manually and sends the information directly to the institutional emails of the teachers, that is, there is no control of document formats or academic evidence, despite the existence of the organizational model called Portfolio of the subject, resulting in a tedious process both for the student at the information organization level, and for the teacher during the qualifying process Therefore, a system was designed capable of structuring the academic portfolios for each student, which are attached files, documents, images, student biography and information on daily class activities, in such a way that at the end of the semester or period academic the system generates folders, files and documents in formats available for the entire office suite, which are compressed in a file of type rar and in this way the portfolio of classes of the subject corresponding to an academic period can be downloaded at any time for academic feedback or evaluation purposes. In order to determine the scope and success of the project, the problem raised from different points of view was analyzed, the information was compiled at the requirements level and the technological proposal was presented based on the implementation of a web application for the management of academic portfolios, with Foundation of the agile development methodology SWIRL for the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Technical University of Machala, which has the necessary phases for quality web development, using Frameworks in trend of web development such as ReactJS, NodeJS and Flask using PostgreSQL and MongoDB as databases with client-server type architecture, allowing the precise and efficient management of the information stored in the class portfolios, in addition, in the final section, the respective evaluation of the system was carried out, following the standard for the evaluation of ISO IEC-9126 software quality, thus achieving a contribution to the technological development of the university.