Case Study Of Student Lecturer Appointment Management System

1. Project Title and Description A project titled “Students-Lecturers Appointment Management System” is chosen for this case study analysis and this software is aimed to make the appointment process is hassle-free and reduce the time taken in setting up the meeting for students and lecturers. Currently, the ways for the student to book an appointment with the lecturer are through email or seeing the lecturer face-to-face before or after class. By using this software, the student can view the lecturer’s calendar and book the appointment by clicking any available slots shown on the lecturer’s calendar and fill up the details of the appointment such as time and reason of the meeting. Other than that, the lecturer can view the request made by …show more content…
Cyber-bully is considered as contentious cyber-behaviour and it makes the bully to unintentionally develop multiple personalities where the hacker can be a complete human being in the society, but the character of the hacker can change in the virtual world where hacker knows that the act of it can be anonymous. Hacker can use the software to amuse oneself by changing the details of the appointment such as the reason of meeting into something else or even mock the other person. From the earlier example, where the hacker pretends to be the lecturer and change the reason of the meeting for the student’s view to writing something may be harassing the student or making fun of the lecturer and vice versa such that the hacker can pretend to be the student and does the same thing. Fun prank can lead to a serious issue like the victim will be emotionally hurt, it will lower the self-esteem of the victim and it can get worse that it potentially breaks the bond between the lecturer and the student which is a horrible thing to …show more content…
The safety and the reliability of the software is not known, as there is no information about the software is provided in the website. The software has access to the patient’s medical data and it is not known if the software is secure enough to protect the personal information of the software, if it is hack proof or the hospital will not sell the patient’s personal information without the patient’s consent to any other company for own benefit, according to Data Protection Act 1998 number 7 where it states “Right of access to personal data,” and according to the BCS Code of Conduct number 3, part d and e. An individual can cheat and use the easy way to hack the software and change the time slot for him or her to go first without the staff knowing about it. And if it happens, it is very unethical to do