Lincoln School of Arts and Languages Management System

Abstract

The Lincoln School of Arts and Languages Management System (LSALMS) was developed to address inefficiencies caused by the school's manual and paper-based administrative processes. The web-based system centralized academic and administrative information and supported enrollment, admissions, student and faculty records, fee management, schedules, attendance, assessments, core values, semester configuration, reports, and role-based user portals. A descriptive-developmental approach was used, while Rapid Application Development (RAD) guided requirements planning, user design, construction, and cutover. Online interviews with the school principal and personnel documented the existing workflow and operational problems, prototypes were used to refine required features, and a five-point acceptability questionnaire evaluated usefulness, ease of use, responsiveness, and user satisfaction. The system was evaluated by 68 respondents composed of 66 students and 2 staff members. Results showed weighted means of 4.72 for usefulness, 4.67 for ease of use, 4.63 for responsiveness, and 4.65 for user satisfaction. The detailed overall acceptability table reported a mean of 4.67, interpreted as acceptable. The findings indicate that the developed system was positively received and addressed major concerns associated with decentralized spreadsheets, paper-based records, manual enrollment, and inefficient information retrieval.