Alumni Association Website for CUSAT

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.

Features of the Web Application includes:
SIGN UP & SIGN IN
USER PROFILE
TIMELINE
MESSAGES
JOBS
EVENTS
SUCCESS STORIES
GALLERY
GROUP FORUM

We have been given official approval for the project by the University head and Alumni Association Committee.

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1. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WEBITE By, Akash P P Anand Philips Jithin M S Meril Abraham
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.
4. OUR DIFFERENTIATOR
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
10. TIMELINE ✓ Latest updates ✓ Message notifications ✓ Recent Events ✓ Recent Job Alerts USER SEARCH ✓ Quick Search ✓ Advanced Search ✓ User Report-Admin
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.
22. FUTURE SCOPE ✓ Mobile Application ✓ Online Funding ✓ Uploading CV ✓ Customized Profile ✓ Mass email ✓ Linking University’s Student profile
23. THANK YOU!! Special thanks to: Mrs. Preetha S (Project Guide) Dr. Sudheep Elayidom (Project Coordinator)