E-SEMAI TEACHING PORTAL (ESTP) By AZWINAWATI A/P ALWI 18251 Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Technology (Hons) (Business Information System) MAY 2015 Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Bandar Seri Iskandar 32160 Tronoh Perak Darul Ridzuan CERTIFICATION OF APPROVAL E-SEMAI TEACHING PORTAL (ESTP) By AZWINAWATI A/P ALWI 18251 A project dissertation submitted to the Business Information System Programme Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY (Hons) (BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEM) Approved by, _______________________ (Ms.Mazlina Mehat) UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS TRONOH, PERAK May 2015 CERTIFICATION OF ORIGINALITY This is to certify that I am responsible for the work submitted in this project, that the original work is my own except as specified in the references and acknowledgements, and that the original work contained herein have not been undertaken or done by unspecified sources or persons. AZWINAWATI ALWI II ABSTRACT Bahasa Semai is one of the Aslian languages that have been selected to be taught in Malaysian Government schools. However, there are no computing technology that currently supports the knowledge sharing activities and communications of this language between the teachers that teach the language, especially in supporting the Pedagogical Content Knowledge methodology as proposed by Malaysian Ministry Of Education. E-Semai Teaching Portal (ESTP) will help to address the problems by providing a reliable knowledge sharing platform for Bahasa Semai educators. The purpose of ESTP is not only limited and focus to the importance of having computing technology support in teaching, but it also include the concern towards the sustainability of one ethnics background. This paper will examine the role of ESTP in assisting to achieve the objectives and how it is developed. The main aim for the research is to ensure that Bahasa Semai subject will be as important as other subject in schools and will have all the reliable sources that can be referred by the teachers that teach the subject. Hence, it will encourage the knowledge sharing of Bahasa Semai between the teachers and coordinators. The portal analysis and planning stage is conducted using the agile methodology and the development is using .Net Web development that included Bootstrap platform and JavaScript, PHP, CSS, XAMPP and MySQL language. After user acceptance testing, the results show that ESTP have achieved all the purpose and objective. The feedbacks receive from the Bahasa Semai teachers are positive and ESTP prove to be a great assistance for them. Functions in ESTP help them in knowledge sharing and explore new knowledge. III ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In this chance, I would like to thank all that were involved in making sure this project is successful. First and foremost, I would like to thank my family that always been supporting and giving me the moral supports towards me and my study here in UTP. Secondly, I would like to express my special thanks towards my FYP supervisor, Madam Mazlina Mehat who is responsible in guiding me in developing ESTP for my FYP. She‟s been helping me with the interim report and dissertation and also the development starting from FYP I until FYP II. She gives me a lot of valuable advice and wise knowledge and it really help me a lot in doing the project development. Not to forget, also to all my friends that also been doing their FYP. We help each other and give solutions to any problems that I have faced during developing this project. They gave me a lot of moral support and courage to be confident that I can do and finish FYP 1 and II. Praise to God for blessing me along the way and for giving me the great health both physical and mental so that I can finish the semester and also the project successfully. Last but not least, thousands of thanks towards all the teachers in schools for giving me full cooperation and also the coordinators from the Ethnic department in MOE that have been giving me the opportunity to build ESTP as my FYP and to help them in their programme. IV TABLE OF CONTENT CERTIFICATION OF ORIGINALITY .................................................................................. II ABSTRACT............................................................................................................................ III ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ...................................................................................................... IV CHAPTER 1 ............................................................................................................................ 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background of Study ................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Problem Statement ..................................................................................................... 4 1.3 Objectives .................................................................................................................. 5 1.4 Scope of Study ........................................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER 2 ............................................................................................................................ 7 LITERATURE REVIEW .................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Orang Asli Education in Malaysia ............................................................................. 7 2.2 Education Problems among the Orang Asli Students ................................................ 9 2.3 The Roles of Technology in Sustaining Orang Asli Student Interest ...................... 11 2.4 The Significance of ESTP Towards Knowledge Sharing ........................................ 12 CHAPTER 3 .......................................................................................................................... 14 METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................ 14 3.1 Development Process ............................................................................................... 14 3.2 Project Requirements ............................................................................................... 22 3.3 Project Design .......................................................................................................... 23 3.4 Testing ...................................................................................................................... 29 3.5 Implementation ........................................................................................................ 31 CHAPTER 4 .......................................................................................................................... 32 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS ...................................................................................... 32 4.1 Data Gathering and Analysis ................................................................................... 32 ............................................................................................................................................... 40 ............................................................................................................................................... 41 ............................................................................................................................................... 42 V CHAPTER 5 .......................................................................................................................... 43 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ................................................................. 43 5.1 CONCLUSIONS ...................................................................................................... 43 5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................................................... 44 Appendix I: Orang Asli Population Distribution Map in Malaysia ....................................... VII Appendix II: Orang Asli Group ............................................................................................. VII Appendix III: Sprint Planning .................................................................................................. X Appendix IV: User Acceptance Testing Survey ..................................................................... XI VI LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Figure 1 Maori Language Website ......................................................................................... 13 Figure 2 Bahasa Iban Website ............................................................................................... 13 Figure 3 Agile Methodology (sources: ADF KICKSTART: Agile Methodology) ............... 16 Figure 4 ESTP Timeline ........................................................................................................ 19 Figure 5 FYP I Gantt Chart .................................................................................................... 20 Figure 6 FYP II Gantt Chart .................................................................................................. 21 Figure 7 ESTP System Architecture ...................................................................................... 23 Figure 8 ESTP Use Case .......................................................................................................