An Alumni Association Website provides a platform for the alumni of the college to stay in touch with the college. It provides an exciting social network where former graduates and current students can connect and share on a lot of stuff including new job openings at alumni offices, contribution to technical fests, the invitation to new college events and meetups, share success stories and achievements etc.
We have been given official approval for the project by the University head and Alumni Association Committee.
2. WHAT IS AN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
An alumni association is an association of former students .
They organize social events, publish magazines, and raise funds.
help alumni maintain connections to their educational institution and fellow
graduates.
Financially support and help cultural and technical events, support new alumni.
new friendships and business relationships with people of similar background.
IS IT JUST THAT MUCH??
3. COLLEGE MEASURED BY ITS ALUMNI
When you enroll at a college, you link yourself to every person who ever attended
that college.
A college must be able to produce influential people in important positions around
the world in the respective fields.
Their first-hand knowledge of history, traditions, and spirit give alumni a unique voice
in speaking to students and families about the value of a degree from your institution.
Campus Placement Cells must take advantage of the alumni network for internships
and job opportunities.
Good alumni increases the quality of students, thus increase the college
reputation.
Finally, an active alumni network of a good college will say positive facts about the
college, will always be updated about the current activities in the college.
It all points to a single organization – A strong and working Alumni Association.
5. WHY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WEBSITE IN SOE
Alumni relations strategies and functions are not
adequately coordinated.
No functioning Alumni Association for School
of Engineering, CUSAT till date.
We are not having a site exclusively for SOE.
You can’t build a powerful organization without a
strong base.
A Good platform where the Alumni can keep in
touch with the college and with each other – An
Alumni Association Website.
6. TECHNOLOGIES USED
PHP 5
Hypertext Preprocessor , The Open Source Language which is trend in the 20th century for creating fast and
dynamic web pages. This the Server Side Scripting Language, with a powerful tool for creating web pages.
HTML5
HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and a
core technology of the Internet.
CSS3
CSS3 is the latest standard for CSS. CSS3 is completely backwards-compatible with earlier versions of CSS.
MySQL
MySQL, the most popular Open Source SQL database management system (DBMS), is developed,
distributed, and supported by Oracle Corporation.
JavaScript
JavaScript (JS) allows client-side scripts to interact with the user, control the browser, communicate
asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed.
Ajax
AJAX is the art of exchanging data with a server, and updating parts of a web page - without reloading the
whole page.
7. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WEBSITE
This project is aimed at developing an up to date repository for the alumni of
the college, which is of importance to a college.
The Repository and Search Engine (RASE) is an Internet based application
that can be accessed throughout the World.
Any Registered SOE alumni or Admins from each branches can access
the Search Engine to know about any Alumni of our college and interact with
them.
There are two types of logins:
1) Admins – Selected from each engineering branches.
– Alumni Association Authorities.
2) Users – All former students of SOE, Cusat.
8. ALUMNI WEBSITE HOME PAGE
The main page of
home page consists
of a bluish
background .The
slider is the most
attractive element of
the home page.
Registered users can
login in to and other
users can register
account in the site
9. SIGN UP & SIGN IN
Administrator
User
Register
One time password
Sign in
Forgot password
11. MESSAGES
Message Centre-Inbox & Sent Items
Communication between users
Users can send & receive messages
from other users
12. JOBS
Post Job
View Jobs
Search Job
Edit Job
The user who posted
Delete job
Admin or job-posted-user
13. Follow or Unfollow job
Interested List & Comments
When follow is clicked, the user is added to the interested users
list below the description of the job.
Users can comment on the jobs.
Other users can post replies to the comments.
A user can follow or unfollow a job
14. EVENTS
Add events
View events
Events are shown in the
calendar extending from
the starting date to the end
date
Event details on click
Edit events
15. SUCCESS STORIES
Post Success story
Edit Success story
View Success story
Comment Story
16. GALLERY
Photos can be added to the gallery where users can view them
Photos can be uploaded by both admin and users
17. USER PROFILE
User can add his/her
Personal as well as
Professional details
and update them
whenever necessary.
User can also upload
a profile picture.
In the Security tab,
the last login details
and an option to
change the
account password
are given.
18. GROUP FORUM
Add new topic
View the various topics being discussed
Comment the topics
19. Bank Details
Account common for Alumni association, for each branch
or for an event (e.g. Sargam, Tech Fest etc.)
Alumni can contribute to the alumni association fund
and this fund can be used for the betterment of the
college.
DONATION
20. Send Mass Message
An option for Admin
Sort by name, branch, year of admission, employment etc.
Lock Account
Admin can block a user if found not genuine
Reason for blocking is displayed to the blocked user
Contact Admin
An option for users
Users can send messages to Admin about their concerns of the
site or suggest ways to improve the functioning of the site.
21. IMPLEMENTATION
The proposal to build an official alumni association website was
presented in the meeting of the alumni of School Of Engineering.
An official sanction from the principal is taken to build the official
alumni association website for the School Of Engineering.
Security and authenticity by
linking with the WAIS
DATABASE on registrations
after 2004.
An official Facebook page
and official groups for each
department are to be run in
parallel to the
site.