Desarrollo de una aplicación web de planificación académica para la Facultad de Ingeniería de Sistemas : Gestión de espacios, horas y preplanificación.

Abstract

The Facultad de Ingeniería de Sistemas at Escuela Politécnica Nacional, is in charge of training professionals with Information and Communications Technology. As part of their academic processes, this faculty does the academic planning process each semester. This process takes in count generating timetables according to the existing staff, the offered careers, the curriculum of each of these careers, the available instructional spaces, the constraints related to teacher’s unavailable hours and the number of students who Will attend each subject. Currently, the authorities in charge do the academic planning manually using a desktop software, reason why they are required to exchange the created files until they obtain a timetable which has all the required information. To solve this problem, we developed a web application for the academic planning, using the agile methodology, the Scrum framework, and a behavior-driven development (BDD). This application consists of three components, of which this document details the one called “management of spaces, hours and preplanning”. This component takes in count the information of the available instructional spaces, the management of the teacher’s requests indicating their unavailable hours for teaching activities, and the registering process of the number of students attending each subject during a semester and its relationship with the academic preplanning process. The creation of this component made it easier to register and manipulate this information through a concurrent and intuitive web application.