QAU Community Guild

Abstract

QAU Community Guild is a web-based application which offer services to faculty staff and student. The QAU community members can avail facilities such as vehicle sharing, transport booking, student and staff facility, and accommodation listing and varsity club management. Any member who wants to avail these facilities he/ she has to post advertisement , view advertisement and then can choose a service that he/ she finds most suitable. There is no proper platform in Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) Islamabad where the students, teachers, and staff can interact with each other. There are students, teachers and staff members of university who want to share their vehicle with other people but can‟t because they don‟t have the necessary resources to advertise properly and the other people who need this facility are usually ignorant of the people who want to share it. QAU is a big place, there are a lot of departments in it. There are thousands of students, teachers and staff members. Also those students who don‟t get allotment in the university hostels have to move towards private hostels and don‟t know where to go for suitable hostels according to their requirements. Information about new jobs is announced in the university but rarely people find out about it. The students who want to do the internships find it very difficult to know where to go and who to ask. The companies offering jobs or internships face a lot of difficulties when it comes to discovering the talented and hardworking student of QAU. There is no online source to book the university‟s transport. The students and staff members who have to book the transport for trips or other purposes, they have to physically go to the transport office and ask for the availability of buses and that is very time consuming, and no proper advertising is done as well by the different clubs (e.g. Adventure Club) of the university. The students, teachers or even the staff members who are new or have recently joined the university usually have no idea about the services provided by the university such as daycare center for the staff members‟ children and the facility of a university gym. In order to address the above-mentioned problems, a web-based system has been introduced in this final year project. The introduced system manages user portfolio, user advertisements, transport booking records, varsity clubs management, hostel accommodation listing, and student-staff sports facility details. The system will have two sides: server side which will be used by an admin, and a client side which will be accessed by the users via internet. Users can request for membership in community guild by entering their details and later on the server side admin can reject or accept their requests based on the rules of QAU.