Designing and Implementations of Web-Based Student Information System: A Case Study for University of Sulaimaniyah in Kurdistan Region of Iraq

The Student Information System is on the speed trend of taking over the crude way of performing some official works both many institutions. A large body of this study is centered on the positive impacts of ICT to the higher educational system after integration of technology and ICT tools into the system. Recently, a growing number of students in Sulaimaniyah University (more than 22000), the volume of paper used documents and data been increased significantly. Most students‟ information systems are web-based, allowing data to be updated and viewed across multiple devices. Accordingly, a new proposed system information system was designed and proposed to assist students in checking their academic result, administration announcements and lectures inputs. This can be easily viewed in a website on their devices at any times. A quantitative method was adopted, based on questionnaire that was distributed on a random sample of 500 students, lecturer and academic staff from seven departments in Sulaimaniyah University. In this research, ANOVA, T-testing and test of correlation between two or more items were used as well as SPSS for analyzing data and finding connection and correlation between them. The perception of students, instructors and administrative staff toward online students‟ information system in Sulaimaniyah University have been discussed and investigated. The Research findings indicated that applications of student information system instead of classical paper style, was considered highly important by all participant especially the students. The results yielded a general weighted mean of 4.26 that describes the respondents strongly agree that the developed system was acceptable by the student, academic staff and administrative staff in Sulaimaniyah University. Conclusively, this study offered insights into the university staff and students perception about proposed web-based student information system. Keywords: Information Technology Sulaimaniyah University, students, Administrative and Academic staff.