Development of student development and monitoring system (MODOGİS) with mentoring and gamification support

The aim of this study is to create and develop an online system supported with gamification in order to keep track of students' academical improvement, maintain a system that create a mentor-mentee relationship between teacher and student, draw students' interest to practice exams and raising motivation of them. Design-based research method is used for creating, developing, enhancing and fixing the web-based system that is developed within the scope of the thesis. Designing process consists of 3 stesp and in the first 2 steps system was tested with experts while improvements were made according to their opinions. After the improvements, system was used by 84 8th grade studens and 8 lecturers for 6 weeks. The study was performed in a state school in Afyonkarahisar province, Emirdağ district. The data that's used is acquired from researcher's diary, experts' opinions at the stage of system being improved and student opinion form, semi-structured teacher interviews and website usage stats at the stage of test trials. While content analysis was implemented to the qualitative data that was collected in the study, median and percentage calculations were made using quantitative data. Findings that acquired from can be dimitiated as technical findings and teacher-student findings. Technical findings are used at the stage of improvements of the system in which PHP based Yii2 framework was used and we can see that it makes it easy to design while it works with framework database. Yet, it can be said that some of the website features that works fine in the local server, either doesn't work or works inconsistently in the remote server. Similarly, we can see that the changes in the main theme disturbs sensitive designs and these changes have not made the same affect in every mobile device. The findings come from teacher and students show that design of the system is quited liked, AdminLTE theme is useful for a study like this, thanks to this system it makes it easy to analyze the results of practice exams and keep track of students improvements as well as gamification arouses the curiosity of the students. According to the results of the research; mentoring and gamification system are quite liked by the teachers and students, it helps the mentoring system that is used in the school and it also makes it easy to keep track of students's academical improvements. We can see that gamification activities that are used in the system are liked by the students an teachers and creates competitive environment among studens. At the end of the study, suggestions have been made to researchers and software developers about the system being developed at hand.