The Development of i-TACwim for Academic Calender Management in Polytechnic
The need for automated and intelligent technology is a need nowadays. Even in the academic system, these technologies such as mobile apps and intelligent web system is essential for effective communication. However, the method of dissemination of information regarding academic calendar in Polytechnic is conducted conventionally thru hardcopy or downloaded document from institutional portal. The conventional method was found less practical in use which the lecturers often faced problems in their daily academic activities. Thus, namely as i-TACwim aims to design and develop an intelligent academic calendar that able to distribute real-time information regarding academic activities. The application also serves to send notifications to users according to important dates related to the International Standards Organization (ISO) procedures. This project applies repetitive development process adapted from agile Model consists of six phases. The development of this project is using YII2 Framework PHP of the system and interface, MySQL Server for the database and Firebase as the technology used for push notification. As a result, the i-TACwim application is a need and consider as an alternative to manual academic calendar to be used as the polytechnic intelligent academic calendar among the polytechnic community. User acceptance pilot testing will be conducted via questionnaire to form in order to show the capability and deliverables of this project.
