Online Project and Assignment Submission, Management and Progress Monitoring System (OPAS) Poorya Bagheri Faez, Nor Azlina Abd Rahman, Khalida Shajaratuddur Harun Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia puriabagheri@gmail.com; nor_azlina@apu.edu.my; khalida@apu.edu.my Abstract— Online Project and Assignment Submission, Management and Progress Monitoring System (OPAS) is a system that enable the student to submit their assignment or project online without submitting any physical file. This system is integrated with Turnitin system to check the plagiarism percentage. Before the submission, the student needs to update their progress to the system and the lecturer able to view the progress and give comments online. OPAS is providing an online discussion, document sharing for student and lecturer and web real time communication technology. Any project that behind the schedule, the system will be able to send an alert to the student to notify the status. This paper is reviewing several similar system and technologies that going to be used in developing the prototype. The system design for assignment and project submission process is being discussed. The working prototype was developed and some functionalities are highlighted. The impact of the system to students, lecturers and university are discussed. The proposed system helps reducing and minimizing human error, capable to assist supervisors in process controlling and managing students. Supervisors can check the student projects’ statuses, the uploaded files online and assist them while they are working in the project if necessary. The proposed system decreases the complexity of managing projects for student by providing them with the current status of their projects and the progresses with their supervisors. Moreover, the proposed system allows supervisors to share documents and files with their students and communicate with them through video call and text chat. Keywords: component; Turnitin Integration, Online project and assignment submission, Online Project Management and Monitoring System,web real time communication, document sharing. I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, higher education has become one of the most necessary factors in daily life. Parents send their children to the best colleges and universities that they can afford to make sure their children can acquire knowledge and ready for work. One of the first requirements for recruitment in specialized fields is higher education degrees. According to Value of Education, an average of annual earnings of full time employee with bachelor’s degree is 1.8 times the employee without higher education [1]. Meanwhile, higher education providers such as Universities are becoming more competitive and more concerned about their quality. It is obvious that universities are concerned about their image and rank in national and international states [2]. Universities are ranked based on their performance and quality which are the main concerns of students as well as their future employers. Since the beginning academic education has been evolving and improving itself using different techniques and practices. Higher education is consisting of courses, exams and projects that need to be accomplished to be able to get a bachelor’s or master’s degree. In modern academic curriculum, the projects are becoming more and more important. Time limitation is an undeniable issue that people face in daily life and work. Student projects are not an exception and most of student and supervisors face this issue during the project progress. Students hardly can manage their time to do their projects and meet their supervisors. This paper will discuss on prototype that will attempt to help in overcoming these issues and provide a good experience for the users. The objective of OPAS system is to be able to monitor and control the students’ assignment or project progress as the following: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Education Technologies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2014 ISBN: 978-1-941968-02-4 ©2014 SDIWC 51