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DEVELOPING AN ONLINE WEBSITE FOR NAGA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL WITH THE INTEGRATION OF ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM

Naga National High School Senior High School Department West Poblacion, City of Naga, Cebu Sy: 2017-2018

In partial fulfillment of the Requirements in Research Capstone

Researchers: Cuizon, Mark Nicko Escarlan, Christhel Joy Litorja, Mary Fatima Londite, Kent Royce Manatad, Allysa Natad, Ramon III

Mr. Celso Torrefranca Research Capstone Adviser

November, 2017

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION RATIONALE Naga National High School is the most numbered students in the whole division of Naga comprising of over 5000 students. The population of the school contributes to the hindrances when supervising a school event or program such as SSG election, PTA election and club election. Over the years, the school relies on manual counting when conducting the election which makes the hassle and increase the cost of materials needed (e.g papers, ink, pens & time). Tabulating the results considering the 5000 students is somehow frustrating. Nowadays, the use of online websites is increasing in number due to the constantly evolving technology. Universities, Science High Schools, and private schools make use of publishing information to their online website for the sake of the guests, students and faculty. It is accessible for the majority since a lot of people owned mobile phones & computers which direct them to random websites. The advantage of publishing websites shows significance to the inquirer whose hometown is kilometer away from the school. In relevant to this, the researchers will address this problem by developing an online website for Naga National High school with its

underlying special feature such as the integration of online voting system for the annual ssg election. Eversince, there is no existing website for this school which indeed need one because of its population that might led to unsatisfied accomodation for the inquirer and students. One of the cases wherein circumstances are evident is during enrollment and after graduation. When it comes to enrollment, especially for the freshmen and transferees, there are certain requirements to be submitted. Students travel from their houses just to inquire which seems to be very hassle for their side. And in connection to the special feature, it is somehow frustrating for the committee's part to manually count the votes, thus, developing an online voting system will lessen the hassle and reduce the expenses in paper materials. Likewise, it will reduce the bias of the election since it will be programmed and they can always update in the up-to-date counting of votes in the proposed website.

Statement of the Problem Building a website within a district or in a school is a great advantage among users. In relevant to that, the researchers intend to answer the following question after the testing of the website utility and usability: 1. Is the page responsive when the user logged in to different gadgets? 2. Does the site load quickly – even (especially) for mobile users? 3. Does the publisher provide the necessary information that every individuals in the school seeks for? 4. What are the attributes that users find out after they visited the site? 5. How many percent among the users who have visited the site shows a satisfactory reaction?

Significance of the Study

Internet

has

become

one

of

the

largest

platforms

of

communication. It is the most effective technology available today. Building a website for school can prove to be extremely beneficial if it is done in the right way. It maybe time consuming and include a lot of effort to be put in for developing a website for the school, but it is very advantageous for the school community. The school website gives the school's information and also clear idea about what they are good at. School websites will provide the up to dates, as well as help them to link between schools, their communities and also to the entire world.

It is easy to neglect your school website, but this would be a big mistake. Your website can accomplish so much for your school, your staff and your whole community. A website needs to not only look good and provide the basic information – it should also become an interactive hub for the community. School website is very important for making a good first impression as it often is the first contact that people have with the school. Therefore, the school website affects the overall image and reputation of your school which can lead to increased admissions. Having a good school website is also very important for delivering a good user experience for its regular users, including teachers, students and parents.

A school website is the virtual place where the members of the school community meet. Today, almost every school/ university has its own website where the school administrators post important information about the school and its activities. In relevant to this, the researchers will address this problem by developing an online website for Naga National High school with its underlying special feature such as the integration of online voting system for the annual ssg election. This school website can serve as an online school database. The school can upload a bunch of information about the school into the website. This can serve as an online filing cabinet which is more efficient compared to our traditional filing system. With the search button in your website, your reader can readily access the data uploaded in your website, a venue for implementing a feedback mechanism. Because it is very convenient to use the Internet, visitors could easily post feedback on school services and other related issues which they would not bother with telephones and letters. With the interactive feature of your website, you can readily respond to the queries and issues, avenue for an interactive information exchange. With added website features such as chat room, school websites facilitates immediate response to queries about the school. Many a times people tend to consider the school website to be a substitute for all the face-to-face interactions. It is a very wrong notion

that they hold. The website should be perceived as an extra resource benefit provided to the world by the schools.

Scope and Delimitation This study focuses on the development of the official website of Naga National High School and testing of its usability among students and faculties of the school through a survey. This also caters the significant information of the school as well as the dissemination of important announcement to be done among massive students. However, due to time constraint and financial capability, this study is limited to specific features and widgets.

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Word Press WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.To function, WordPress has to be installed on a web server, which would either be part of an Internet hosting service or a network host in its own right. An example of the first scenario may be a service like WordPress.com, for example, and the second case could be a computer running the software package WordPress.org. A local computer may be used for single-user testing and learning purposes. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It was released by May 27, 2003; 14 years ago and was stable released 4.9.1 (November 29, 2017; 45 days ago). WordPress was used by more than 29.3% of the top 10 million websites as of January 2018. WordPress is reportedly the most popular website management or blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites. WordPress has also been used for other application domains such as pervasive display systems (PDS). Most people using WordPress are neither web designers nor programmers. As a matter of fact most folks start using WordPress without any prior knowledge of designing websites. The reason why WordPress is such an ideal candidate is because there are thousands of free templates (themes) to choose from, so you can give your website any look you want. There is a WordPress

theme for just about everything. Whether you want a photography theme, magazine theme, portfolio theme, or an eCommerce theme. There is a perfect theme available for every kind of website. WordPress themes are easy to customize because a lot of them come with their own options panel allowing you to change colors, upload logo, change background, create beautiful sliders, and do other cool things with your website without ever writing any code at all. WordPress is super flexible and can be extended by using plugins. Just like themes, there are thousands of free and premium plugins available for you to use. Website A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server. Websites are also available and accessible 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Because of this, your customers and potential customers can visit your site for support or information about new and upcoming products and services whenever it is convenient for them. Having a website and online presence strategy allows you to market your business online. There are lots of marketing strategies you can use to advertise and market your business. All online marketing strategies have been proven to be effective. Which ones you choose depends on the type of business you are in. A website is also important because it helps you establish credibility as a business. By building a

website, you are giving your business the opportunity to tell consumers why they should trust you and the testimonials and facts to back up those opportunities. Believe it or not, most people will search the internet for a product or service before the purchase to check the credibility first. When you provide good service or product, positive word-of- mouth about your business is likely to spread. Which in turn, delivers more repeat and new business. School website is very important for making a good first impression as it often is the first contact that people have with the school. Therefore, the school website affects the overall image and reputation of your school which can lead to increased admissions. Having a good school website is also very important for delivering a good user experience for its regular users, including teachers, students and parents. While it takes time to build up enough traffic to your website to make a worthwhile impact on your company`s marketing campaign, it costs next to nothing to do so. Your website will be the center of your company`s online presence; through it, you advertise your business around the Web on social networking sites, forums and through pay-per-

click advertising

programs. School websites leading Cebu blogs since 2009 providing information for students study and wellbeing has parted ways in University of Cebu , Cebu Eastern College, Cebu International School, Cebu Technology University, Cebu Institute of Technology, University of

San Carlos , University of the Visayas, University of San Jose Recoletos and such more. School Election Voting at school is a unique civic learning experience which teachers and faculties can build upon in the classroom to help young people become educated, engaged citizens. According to Subramanian (2012), Ranking content is arguably one of the Web's most important problems. As users are the ultimate consumers of content, incorporating their opinions in the form of either explicit or implicit votes becomes an essential ingredient in many ranking systems. According to Cutts (2005), reports on the use of an electronic voting system (EVS) in a first-year computing science subject. Previous investigations suggest that students' use of an EVS would be positively associated with their learning outcomes. It is also a strategy to avoid bias. Related Studies According to Lopez (2005), a Registration system helps and provides efficient and reliable services to the students, enrollment personnel and administration. Moreover, this system improved the process of enrollment in terms of searching, retrieving and subject schedules. While in a study conducted by Cayabyab (2007), many problems and difficulties were identified in the existing system of Dagupan City National High School (DCNHS). These major concerns are

affecting the efficient enrollment system of students. Security of the students records were found to be at high risk. The current system may fail to protect some important documents. It has also untimely and inefficient report generation. A computerized system for DCNHS shall result to a significant increase in the number of enrollees Network-Based Enrollment system Conde (2007) in his study entitled “Network-bases Enrollment System of Paete National High School cited that the manual process of enrollment and manual handling of information and reports of the students is very laborious one. The proponents developed a network based system enrollment system to the said school to solve the huge amount of task. According to Maxwell (2012), in his study entitled “School MARKETING as a Sorting Mechanism”, Information system are designed and implement within an organization to support adequate action such that value addition may be achieved. Another, all medium to large organizations depend on information technology for their continued survival. School websites are providing education settings with the opportunity to transform and enhance the schooling experience. However, the perceived importance of school websites and the resources invested in developing and maintaining them varies considerably across settings. There is a need to better understand what constitutes an effective website that provides a school with an avenue for delivering innovation in teaching and learning, and complements how a school

operates. This study reviewed school websites, specifically how 30 south Australian schools used their website as a teaching learning portal, to support administrative operations and as a MARKETING platform. Three key questions framed the research. First, what variables should be examined to establish how schools are using their website. Second, what constitutes an engaging and useful school website, and finally what development framework can be devised to assist schools to map their website's strengths and areas requiring further development. The evaluation criteria addressed website design, purpose, content and technology integration. Indicators of progressive and emergent school websites were identified through a deductive content analysis of the websites, which informed a proposed website development framework. The framework and suggested recommendations promote a holistic approach when developing a website to accurately portray a school's identity and effectively address stakeholders' needs. While in a study conducted by Morenly (2012), An emerging body of research has explored "supply side" questions of school choice, or how schools and systems shape enrollment through locational decisions, recruitment, and marketing. This study focuses on how school websites market and communicate the distinct missions of charter schools to prospective families. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of 55 elementary charter school websites in one demographically diverse metropolitan area, we explore how school websites operate as discursive

texts that signal the potential "fit" between particular schools and particular families. Guided by a critical discourse analysis framework, we emphasize how websites (a) employ implicit discourses of race, culture, and diversity; (b) draw on different meanings of academic achievement, and (c) emphasize different ideologies of individualized learning. We argue that websites act as one mechanism that contributes to the segmentation and differentiation of an emerging local marketplace of school options.

Research Flow

Gathering of school’s information, images and other necessary content

Signing up in Wordpress

Choosing an Official template

Choosing of Widgets

Plugging-in of information in the designed website

Purchasing a personal account

Designing the website

Survey for its utility and compatibility among students and faculties

Polishing of Website

Dissemination of school’s website information for testing

Publishing of Website

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY A. Gathering of Data The researchers gathered the necessary information such as the school’s

information,

images

of

the

school’s

feature

and

other

information necessary to fill up the website content. The researchers accumulate the data from trusted personnel-Guidance Counselor and other faculties. B. Designing of Website The researchers will make use of the available technology present in the internet such as Word Press. The researchers will purchase a personal account to avail the widgets that they want to include in the website. There are lots of free available templates once it has been upgraded to a personal account. C. Publishing of Website After the information has been inputted in the site, the researchers will start polishing the official website from its typography, structure, graphics and content. Consequently, the researchers will publish the website for trial.

D. Trial After the researchers published the website, they will conduct information dissemination to the students and faculties of Naga National High School to test its utility, compatibility and so on. The researchers will select 100 samples from the population of Naga National High School to undergo a survey right after they visited the site. Aside from the survey, the researchers will also make use of the statistics of viewers of the site tallied by word press.

Definition of Terms Compatibility is the state of being compatible; in which two or more things are able to exist or work together in combination without problems or conflict. Internet is a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols. Responsive

Website

is

an

approach

to web design

which

makes web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes Utility is the state of being useful, profitable, or beneficial. Website is a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web. Widgets are an essential aspect of home screen customization.