Mobile-Based Student e-Handbook

This project is a mobile-based application as an alternative for the print version. The development of this application is due to the need of the college to intensify information dissemination ensuring understanding of the College’s policies, rules and regulations thereby improve delivery of quality services. The respondents of the study were the faculty and students of the College of Information and Communication Technology and Engineering. The application can be installed on any android devices designed on an interface responsive to the users’ preferred screen resolution. The main objective of the study is to develop an android-based student handbook application that runs on android devices in an offline setting. Specifically, the project aimed to evaluate the android-based student handbook application in terms of functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability using the International Organizations for Standardization/International Electro-technical Commission (ISO/IEC 25010, 2011). JQuery Mobile, Phonegap Build/Apache Cordova were utilized as a hybrid development method in developing the mobile application. The mobile-based student e-handbook application has also quiz and mini-dictionary feature that makes it more interactive to use. The application was rated very good during the user acceptance and expert testing noting that it meets the software quality standards that determines the system’s conformance to the software quality measures. The future researchers may add some functionality to the system like dynamically modifying the contents of the handbook for future changes and integrating it to other applications such as student information system

Keywords: e-handbook, student handbook, mobile application