STUDENT MANAGEMENT
I NFORMATI ON SYSTEM
OPUS
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College
Overview
What is OPUS
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College?
What functionalities does it offer?
What is the history of OPUS
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College?
What are the technical characteristics?
How can it be customized and extended?
What is OPUS
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College?
„OPUS
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College“ is a web
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based management information system to store
and analyze data concerning:
Students
(Personal data, study plans, marks, ...)
Curriculum
(Study programs, courses, examinations, ...)
Lecturers
(Personal data, contracts, ...)
Organisational units
(Schools, departments, ...)
OPUS
: „
Op
en
U
niversity
S
ystems“
What functionalities does it offer?
Example setup of role responsibilities:
Central registry:
Admission, certificates, organizational unit
information
Decentral (schools/departments):
Curriculum (structure of study
programs, subjects), (academic) staff information
Lecturers:
Course descriptions, marks entry, personal data
Studierende:
Query own study progress (marks)
Opus‘ flexible authorization system controls access to data
Opus‘ reporting engine makes data available: e.g. Student lists, statistics
What is the history of OPUS
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College?
Point of departure: Development cooperation project 2006
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10; with
universities in
Mozambique
and
the Netherlands
Enhancements for
Zambia
2011
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13
Supporting two different educational systems: Portuguese and English based
Interest is shown from universities in a variety of countries
Homepage:
www.opuscollege.net
What are the technical characteristics?
OPUS
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College is published under Mozilla triple license
(MPL/LGPL/GPL)
Based on open source components
JAVA
und
Spring Development Framework
PostgreSQL
(database)
iBatis
for the persistence (mapping application
–
database)
JasperReports
for the generation of automized reports
Apache Tomcat
as the web server
A
web browser
for the user interface
(no further software needs to be installed on user PCs)
How can it be customized and extended?
OPUS consists of modules
Kernel/college,
report
fee
scholarship
accommodation
admission
Country
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specific modules (e.g. zambia)
Uni
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specific modules (e.g. cbu) to customize for example the student number format
Additional modules are possible
„Extension point“ concept
Extension points allow to customize or extend existing functionality, for example adding
own reports
Additional extension points can be made available at any time
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