Guidance and Counseling Information Support System

The rapid growth in Information and Communication Technology paved the way to the development of various systems that will help Guidance Counselors with their information storage and retrieval needs. Since the birth of the World Wide Web, most transactions in the organization were implemented online for easy access and retrieval by various authorized users. The Iloilo Science and Technology University located at Burgos St. Lapaz Iloilo City is composed of five (5) branches. These include the Lapaz Campus, Leon Campus, Miag-ao Campus, Barotac Campus and Dumangas Campus. Each campus has a designated Guidance Counselors who facilitated the efficient management of guidance records. The Online Database Management of Guidance Records for Effective and Immediate Access of Data to Follow-up Students was an online system designed to be implemented to all ISAT Ucampuses. Since the system is online, all Guidance Counselors from all campuses can secure an account to access the system as well as all the students in each campus. The Data Management System encapsulates processing of the Student’s Information Profiles, Routine Interviews, Exit Interviews, and Graduate Tracking records.The system is tested using ISO 9126 software quality standards so as to determine the system’s conformance to the software quality measures which include the system’s Functionality, Efficiency, Usability, Maintainability, Reliability and Portability. Moreover, the system’s performance was tested using Google’s PageSpeed Tool.

Keywords: Guidance and Counselling, Information System, Graduate Tracking, Students Information Profile