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Introduction
About Aca Dev.
Main Features
Academic Excellence Development.
Two in One (an Integrated system)

ADEQuATEs
ITIMAAD

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About A c a D e v

Academic Development is a software company.

Area

of expertise: Academic Development,

Accreditation Projects Consultancy.
Products/services: software, consultancy, training and
system implementations
Targets: Education institutions
Purpose: accreditation and academic quality
development.
Products: ADEQuATEs and ITEMAAD

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Main Features

Web-based (intranet and internet)

Distributed and online application
Automated scheduling: tasks and courses
Automated Monitoring, moderating and task
controls.
Automated generation of Self Evaluation Scales
and Reports.

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Main Features (continued)

Fully compatible with NCAAA formats and

requirements .
Fully compatible with ABET requirements.
Paperless environment: all reports, documents,
supporting proofs (analysis and results) are
uploaded to the system.
Trackable environment: The systems KNOWS
who did what and when by keeping histories of all
users' activities.
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Academic Excellence Development.

Developed by a talented team of academicians with:

proven experience in academia, (measured in decades),

accreditation project management,
software development.

Conducted a profound system analysis and requirement

Specification

Scalable data bases design:

the system can be applied to one department and then scaled up to one
faculty, then can grow to encompass a set of colleges.

Object oriented design and coding.

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Academic Excellence Development.

The Time issue

Current Problem

redundant communication via: fax, email, telephone, official and/or corridor

meetings,
a not-well-thought-of task assignment (unfair, unbalanced, , inconsistent,
black box, drown in a plethora of good-practices)

Acadev Completely eliminates the waste of time by:

A couple of meetings to set datelines, identify the task-forces and wisely

assign the tasks (good-practices)
All kind of users perform their assigned tasks online, with a priori fixed
datelines.
The system knows precisely the actual need for each and every good-practice
(a ratio, a number, a report, a questionnaire result, an argument, a
statement, etc...)
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Academic Excellence Development.

The quality issue:

Current Problem

unclear responsibility/accountability through unprofessional task

handling
Quality of jobs not good since difficult to monitor all the assignments

Tremendously promotes and enforces academic quality:

Users will be motivated to conduct their tasks on time and with quality since:
Clarity: tasks are formally specified in the system.
Efficient Tracking: Managers can access and check online who is behind
schedule.
Quality control: Managers evaluate the quality of the completed tasks
Inherent consequence: the system instils a Healthy competition among
users.
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Academic Excellence Development.

The black-box issue.

Current Problem

Unbalanced loads, unfair assignments, unrealistic deadlines.

Quality drops, because

assignment seen as a burden rather than a task, feels of injustice.

unclear responsibility/accountability through unprofessional task handling
difficult to monitor all the assignments

Enforce fairness and transparency in task assignment :

Users will be responsible and accountable for :

Transparency: Task-forces can see the status quo and the content of the
tasks undertaken by their peers.
System is trackable: managers knows who did what and when.

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Academic Excellence Development.

The money issue.

Current Problem

TONS of print out needed for report and scanned documents.

A need might arise to develop in-house applications that support your
accreditation projects and academic development

Save a lot of money:

All documents are uploaded into a repository of the system. Practically a pure
paperless system. However, we recommend to the need for some summary or
synthesizing reports to be archived as hard copies.

Pay once and No licences fees needed for the platform (OS, Server, etc)
that will run the system.(refer to the last slides)
New functionalities can be added in an effective, efficient and easy manner.

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Academic Excellence Development.

The Auditing issue.

Current Problem

MUST hire an independent reviewer to AUDIT the Tons of printed

documents
Freaking Time consuming
Frustration when he/she have a hell of time to find a specific
document
Affect his/her judgement
Cost a lot of money because of the audit effort and audit time

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Academic Excellence Development.

The Auditing issue.

Auditing time
tremendously
reduced.

Reviewer gives
positive review

Reviewer costs
much less
money

What does the NEW System offer?

The independent reviewer has a userID and a password

He/she logs on to the system and can navigate his way
seamlessly through every good-practice in the most
flexible way.
For each good-practice, a synopsis , what is required and
the attached proofs are one click away from him/her.
At the end of each good-practice, the reviewer can see :
Self Evaluation Scales Report
the internal assessment.
Then, he/she can enter his /her:
Independent Opinion and
Independent overall assessment

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Two in One - an Integrated system

ADeQuATES

Academic Development and Quality Assurance for Teaching and

Education system

Faculty Management Module

Department Management Module
Program Management Module
Course Management Module
Staff Management Module
Stakeholder Management Module

(alumni, employers, advisors)

Feedback/questionnaire Management Module

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Two in One - an Integrated system

ITEMAAD

Integrated Teaching and Education Management for

Accreditation and Academic Development

Task Assignment Management Module

Task-forces/Committees Management Module
Moderation/monitoring/control Management Module
Reporting/Self-Evaluation Management Module

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ADeQuATES Architecture
Programs

Courses

Faculty/
College

Feedback

ADeQuATES

Admin
HoD*
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Alumni
Employers
Program
Advisers

Instructors

Staff

Dean

Stakeholders

Managers

Department

StakeHolders
Responses

Course
Directors
Program
managers

*HoD: Head of
Department
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Staffs

Committees

Dean

Departments

FACULTY

Faculty Management Module

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Faculty Management Module

Complete information / details of a given

faculty/college
(name,

dean, mission, vision, etc...)

Committees (faculty-level),
Departments and
staffs.

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Department Management Module

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Staffs

QA

Committees

HoD

Programs

Department

Dean

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Department Management Module

Complete information

details of a given department (name, HoD, welcome

message, etc.)
Committees:

creating department-level committees.

Assigning committees chairs

Programs:

creating programs

e.g., diploma, BSc, Postgraduate, etc.

Staffs:

assigning academics

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Department Management Module

Program Evaluation
Findings, recommendations
PROGRAM
ADVISORS

DEAN

Monitor

Program Evaluation
Findings, recommendations

Monitor
PAEC

HoD

Assign courses
/monitor

consult

Devise a program

Evaluate a program

Other Support Design/

COMMITTEES

ALUMNI

improve program,

COURSE
DIRECTORS

INSTRUCTORS
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Design course
syllabus
Deliver courses /
Courses Direct
Assessment

Courses Indirect
Assessment

(indirect)
Program
Assessment
as a whole
EMPLOYERS

STUDENTS
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ACCREDITATION
BODY, NCAAA&

ABET

ABET
The 11 Student Outcomes
SO1, , SO11

Mapping for each

course (NCAAA)

Mapping for each

course (Abet)

Program
eg., BSc_CS

course1
course
1

PAEC
(Program Assessment
Evaluation Committee)
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NCAAA
The 4 Learning Domains
DL1, , DL4

course2

course51

Course Graded works

Exit Forms
Alumni feedback
Employers feedback
Students

Alumni

Mapping Dom
Learns with PEOs
(NCAAA)

Program
Educational
Objectives
PEO1,PEO2,
PEO3, PEO4,...

Mapping Dom Learns

with PEOs (Abet)

Program Management Module

Course
directors
Employers

Instructors
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Program Management Module

Complete Program Specification

100% conform to NCAAA format

Context, Program Educational Objectives (PEOs),

structure/organization, Learning Domains, mission,
policies, etc.
Curriculum detail (courses, codes, credit hrs etc)
Mapping matrix

done automatically synthesized form the mappings of individual

courses
NCAAA Domains of Learning versus PEOs
Abet Student Outcomes versus PEOs

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Program Management Module

Complete Program Report

100% conform to NCAAA format

Generated Year to Year progression rates and some
pertinent statistics.
Automatic detection and generation of:

Courses with unusual results (e.g., grades <<low, >>high)

Courses with unusual stats (e.g., attendance <<low)

Automatic Performance result generation (Abet compliant)

Automatic detection of problem courses which help in

Decision Maker (e,g., action plan for improvements)

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Course Syllabus
UNVARIANT *

Course Management Module

Course Learning
Outcomes
CLO1,CLO2CLOn

TextBooks,
References
Teaching :
course1
Materials

Mapping
with CLOs

NCAAA
The 4 Learning Domains
DL1, , DL4

ABET
The 11 Student Outcomes
SO1, , SO11
Designing

Course
directors

Course

Strategies

Course Delivery
Instance for each
(sem/year)
Course Report
Instance for each
(sem/year)

Direct
Assessment
(graded works )

Direct
Assessment
Exit Forms
Student feedback

Assessing

Instructors
Assessing

UNVARIANT *: A course syllabus is static by default , i.e., instructors must abide by its content when
delivering it. The only instance when the syllabus changes is when the PAEC advises the curriculum
committee to revise the24
syllabus.

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Course Management Module

Complete Course Specification (syllabus)

For each semester, an Online course
assignment activity is undertaken- by HoD.
Once a course is assigned to course director
and instructors:
Automatically,

two course instances (delivery and

report) are created
Automatically, the main data is pulled from the course
syllabus and fill the two course instances.
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Course Management Module

Course DELIVERY instance

For each semester, instructors:

Map course assessment scheme with CLOs

Enter marks. Then grades are generated automatically
For each assessment scheme,

a max, min, median graded work sample need to be

uploaded.

Automatic course performance calculation is triggered.

Automatic data are sent to the corresponding course

report instance.
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Course Management Module

Course REPORT instance

For each semester, Course directors:

Fill in course report.

Automatic generation of pertinent information (stats and

results)
Automatic detection/generation of:

deviation from Course week-by-week delivery scheme (as stated

in syllabus)
deviation from assessment scheme (as stated in syllabus)

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People

People/Users Course Management Module

Stakeholders
Staff

Students

Alumni

Employers

management

Program
Advisers

management

Admin
Dean

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People/Users Course Management Module

Administrator (or HoD/Dean) can:
Manage

Edit (create/update staff accounts and profile)

Assign roles and admin duties

Manage

Employers

Edit (create/update Employers accounts and profile)

Manage

alumi

Edit (create/update Alumni students accounts and profiles)

Manage

staff

Program Advisors

Edit (create/update Program Adviors accounts and profiles)

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Feedback

Feedback & Questionnaire

Management Module

Questionnaire Responses From

Feedback/
Questionnaire
Dynamic Design

management

Alumni

Employers

Program
Advisers

management

Admin
Dean

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Feedback & Questionnaire

Management Module
Administrator (or HoD/Dean) can:

On the fly design a generic questionnaire

Set a dateline and assign it to a group of
responders
Monitor the responders feedback

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ITEMAAD Architecture
ADeQuATES

(scanned, proofs)

Committees/
Task-forces

Reports, stats,
answers feedback

ITEMAAD
The NCAAA 2x11
Standards (institution and program levels)

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Control/followup/
datelines

Managers

Document
Repository

Dean
Admin
HoD*

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ITEMAAD: Task Management Module

Managers assign tasks to different task-forces and

committees)
Each task IS good-practice (NCAAA parlance)
assignment.
Allows flexibility of task assignment.

i.e. Instead of assigning a whole sub-standard to one team, a team

can work on similar good practices at different sub-standards .

Teams can :

Work independently
work cooperatively
check the status and the content of other tasks in the same substandard.
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ITEMAAD: Moderation/monitoring/
control Management Module

Each task has a start and end date.

Trigger events are awaken when datelines for task
completion are reached.
Report and feedback to the managers about the status quo
of tasks handling.
The system logs all activities of all users.

Each time a user update, upload, create, anything in the system, the
system will record all the pertinent information.
Managers can check what, when a particular user has done
something.

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ITEMAAD: Reporting/Self-Evaluation
Management Module

An on-going automatic generation of Self-Evaluation

Scales Report for each sub-standard
Proofs of good practices can be :

scanned (soft-copy) documents uploaded to the systems,

report (programs and courses) automatically generated by
ADeQuATES
questionnaire results generated by ADeQuATES
Statistics data automatically fed by ADeQuATES
Arguments and explanations directly input by the responsible team

For each institution, an independent automatic file

arborescence that will harbor proofs of good-practices is
dynamically created.
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Technology and Development

We used LAMP, HTML, CSS, Ajax and Javascript

OS: Linux
Server: Apache
DATABASE: MySQL
Server Scripting: Php and Ajax
Client: scripting: Ajax and Javascript
Presentation: HTML and CSS

The main two advantages are the increased security and

the reduced cost of the end products as compared to
the licensing issues with Microsoft.

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Technology and Development

Why LAMP technology?
Area

LAMP

ASP.NET

Performance

Very good

Often requires more expensive

hardware to perform well

Scalability

Scales very well

Can be difficult to scale

Administration

Difficult: Often requires

reading
documentation and
editing text files

Easy: Often can be done through

point and click interface

Compatibility

Very good: New versions

usually
backwards-compatible

Moderate: New versions often

break functionality

Configuration flexibility

Extremely flexible

Not very flexible

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Technology and Development

Why LAMP technology?
Area

LAMP

Licensing cost

No licensing cost

Expensive licensing cost

Platform(s)

Multiple

Windows only

Hardware
Costs

Runs on very inexpensive

servers

Requires slightly more

expensive servers

Staffing

Somewhat difficult to find

qualified people

Very easy to find

qualified people

Security

Very good

Historically very bad, but

improved recently

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More details
Please Visit: www.acadev.com
And/or contact the following:
Contact

Contact Info

Mr. Randy Hill

CIO

Email: randy.hill@acadev.com
In IT Business since 1993

Dr. Hallam Nasreddine,

System Architect

Email: hallam.nasreddine@acadev.com
In academia since 1993

Mr. Genois Julien, Software

Engineer

Email: jgenois@acadev.com
In academia since 1996

Mr LeBlanc, Marc,
Database Administrator

Email: mleblanc@acadev.com
In academia since 1986

Prof. Dr. Abou Elhassan

Benyamina,
Software Engineer

Email: d.naboulsi@acadev.com
In academia since 1988

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Address

70 W 36th Street New York,

NY 10018
Tel 1: 1-347 784 4742

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More details
Please Visit: www.acadev.com
And/or contact the following:
Contact

Contact Info

Dr. Benyamina Djohara,

Software Engineer, server
administrator

Email: d.benyamina@acadev.com
In academia since 1994

Mrs Sara Aw, Software

Engineer

Email: sara.aw@acadev.com
In academia since 1999

Mrs Iris Boardman,

secretary

Email: iris@acadev.com

Sarah Djani
BI

Sarah.djani@avadev.com
Business Intelligence

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Address

70 W 36th Street New York,

NY 10018
Tel 1: 1-347 784 4742

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