KATHFORD INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF

ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

Balkumari, Lalitpur

A
Mid-Term Defense
on

“Digital Notice and Discussion Board”

(KONNECTFORD)

A PROJECT REPORT
SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATION
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN
COMPUTER APPLICATION

Project Members
Divesh Thapa (Sym. No. 4560556)
Nitika Bhatta (Sym. No. 4560559)
Sushant Poudel (Sym. No. 4560563)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATION

January, 2020
ABSTRACT
‘Digital Notice and Discussion Board’ is a website that requires user to login to access
all the features. Mainly the website focuses on two things, online updateable notices and a
discussion forum. Registered Users can view the current notices, view the messages in the
forum and send messages. The project, being flexible, other features like ability to assign tasks
to other members can be added as per requirement. This idea was necessary as the students are
unaware of the current affairs due to traditional notice boards kept in some corner of the
college. The main objective of this very project is to eradicate the need to search for notices
around the college when simple update can reach every student in a single website.

Keyword: konnectford, digital, forum, system, discussion, chatbox, section

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One: Introduction.....................................................................................1

1.1 Background..............................................................................................1
1.2 Problem Statement...................................................................................1
1.3 Objectives................................................................................................1
Chapter Two: Literature Review...........................................................................2
Chapter Three: Methodology..................................................................................3
3.1 Process Model..........................................................................................3
3.2 Tools used................................................................................................3
Chapter Four: Feasibility Study.............................................................................4
Chapter Five: System Design..................................................................................5
5.1 Use case diagram.....................................................................................5
Chapter Six: Estimated Time Schedule................................................................6
6.1 Timeline...................................................................................................6
6.2 Gantt Chart...............................................................................................6
Chapter Seven: Works Done...................................................................................7
Chapter Eight: Expected Output............................................................................9
Chapter Nine: References.......................................................................................10

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1. INTRODUCTION
‘Digital Notice and Discussion Board’ is a web-based application which can be
accessed via internet browsers and use to access the college’s current news, notices. Also, the
platform can be used to have a general text conversation with whoever has been registered,
more like a discussion forum of reddit, stack-overflow.

Users are required to register and login to view the notices and the discussions. The
information is saved in a database for re-login and other proposes like displaying name in
message box. The non-registered users can view the home page with ‘about’ and ‘contact’
information.

Once logged in to the site, users can view the current notices, read and send messages
in the discussion / message forum, change own password, update their profile, request to admin
and so on for now. On the other hand, the administrative panel can delete/update notices, view
messages, manage the registered users, delete the user’s information and reply to contact
request messages by the non- registered users.

1.1 Background
The project was inspired when we realized about the lack of proper information platform
for Kathford or any college for that matter. Notices are still updated in the board where students
rarely even look up to. We wanted to eradicate the traditional notice sharing options and also
added the features of discussion as this is another important features to have in a college for
the students.

The idea was generated when we came across the website of DEERWALK INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY, http://deerwalk.edu.np/DWIT , where the news are updated in the website
itself and also it has created a platform to advertise all the coming events making it easier for
the students to view and access the latest information of their college.

1.2 Problem Statement

The project notices and other information are not responsively reaching the students.
Program Coordination between the teachers and the students lacks.

1.3 Objectives
The objectives for developing KonnectFord are:

i. To create an Online Notice Board System for the users to view and response.
ii. To speed up the information transmission process.
iii. To implement a user friendly online discussion forum.

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1. LITERATURE REVIEW
The online notice system, only existing in few colleges websites like Deerwalk, has shown
us the possibility of how the system can be improved and there are ways, the proposed system
can be executed in a different method like adding the discussion forum for college students and
adding an admin panel to eliminate any offensive activities.

The websites or even the part of the college website is all it takes for the idea to be executed.
The ‘Online Notice and Discussion Board’ is planned to be the improved version of the existing
websites as shown in the websites below. http://deerwalk.edu.np/DWIT

Fig. Deerwalk Institute of Technology website’s NEWS section

Fig. Deerwalk Institute of Technology website’s Current Affairs section

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 2. METHODOLOGY
As our methodologies we included study of the following:

i. Feasibility Study
 Description
 Technical feasibility
 Financial feasibility
ii. Process Model Study
iii. Tools

3.1 Process Model

Process Model helps to determine the flow of how the project will be completed.
For the early development of this application, we have decided to follow the Agile
SDLC Model.
The reasons we chose this model is because:
● It suits small-medium size project, with rapid changes in the requirements as
customer is involved during each phase.
● Fast release of the first product version.
● Risk are minimized because of flexible change process.
However, later on our journey to complete the project we might change the model
according to our need.

2.2 Tools Used

 Xampp (Server)
 MySQL
 HTML, CSS (Frontend)
 JavaScript
 PHP (Backend)

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 3. FEASIBILTY STUDY
Feasibility studies helps to determine how feasible our project is. We collected
following feasibility study methods.

4.1 Description
The strategy for solving the problem stated is straight forward. First, a website
that has a user-friendly interface will be developed. Then it shows the user the notices
in a slideshow format and the discussion forum can also be accessed in a user-friendly
way/

3.2 Technical feasibility

As this website will not be graphic intensive and is just aimed to provide users with the
support of finding the news, notices and view them in a simple way that supports the users with
general yet interactive interface.

4.3 Financial feasibility

The startup capital needed is none. However, we do need a working laptop to
write our code. All the software that we need for the project are going to be open-source
and free.

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4. SYSTEM DESIGN

5.1 Use-Case Diagram

Fig. 5.1. Use Case Diagram of ‘Online Notice and Discussion Board’

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 5. ESTIMATED TIME SCHEDULE
6.1 Timeline

Online Notice and Discussion Board

START DATE END DATE DESCRIPTION DURATION

December 20, 2019 December 28, 2019 Research and Analysis 8

December 28, 2019 January 10, 2020 Design 12

January 10, 2020 January 29, 2020 Development 19

January 29, 2020 February 10, 2020 Testing 11

February 10, 2020 February 20, 2020 Submission 10

5.2 Gantt Chart

Online Notice and Discussion Board

12/19/2019 12/29/2019 1/8/2020 1/18/2020 1/28/2020 2/7/2020 2/17/2020 2/27/2020

Research and Analysis 8

Design 12
Steps

Development 19

Testing 11

Submission 10

START DATE DURATION (days)

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 6. WORKS DONE

Below are the screenshots of the web documents that’re complete or are under development.

Fig. 6.1. Home Page

Registration page is linked via the Sign Up button of home page at the top right corner.

Fig. 6.2. Home Page

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After login, users are redirected to the User Profile page where the basic information of the
user is displayed. The web document is incomplete.

Fig. 6.3. Profile Page (incomplete work)

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7. EXPECTED OUTPUT
Following are the expected output:

i) Users will be able to login and register without any hassle

ii) Notices will be updated and shown properly
iii) Discussion forum database would store large number of messages
iv) Project would be flexible to add features in the future.

Fig. 7.1. Inspired Notice Board Page

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