Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based System for Engineering Programs Accreditation of Bicol University

The study aims to come up with a web-based system for engineering program accreditation for the BU College of Engineering to help faculty members who encounter difficulties, particularly in accessing and retrieving documents. Web applications, as the name implies, are software programs hosted on remote servers and accessed via web browsers. In contrast, cloud-based applications offer enhanced functionalities and broader compatibility. Web-based application was chosen over could-based because development cost is less. The format design of the system is based on the 10 areas of the survey instrument of the AACCUP. The documents gathered and collected were uploaded to the web-based system. These documents are made accessible to accreditors, chairman, and faculty members guided by a user’s manual and approval of accounts by the system administrator user’s guide. The WordPress (an open-source content management system) and BlueHost (a webhosting domain) were used to develop the system. Furthermore, the system was designed using the Agile software development method using programming language, specifically, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP are utilized. There are two major types of users of the system: 1) public users composed of the accreditors, chairman, and faculty members; and 2) administrator of the system. Access to the Web-Based System for Engineering Programs Accreditation requires a registered user account to be approved by the system administrator. The software is evaluated using the eight (8) criteria of ISO 25010 software quality evaluation. Using a Likert scale consisting of four points with 4 as the highest rating with adjectival rating of Strongly Agree (SA) and 1 as the lowest for Strongly Disagree (SD), results show that the evaluation of the respondents for functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability, portability, security, and compatibility ranges from 3.80 to 3.92. The over-all result of the evaluation of the system, a weighted mean of 3.87 suggests that the overall performance is relatively high. In this case, the result indicates a favorable assessment across multiple dimensions, indicating a strong adherence to the ISO 25010 model’s standards and requirements.