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A particularly boring duty of every university lecturer is the filling up several academic management forms like: course: program, objectives, bibliographic lists,…;lecture notes, exercises,…; class: timetables, summaries,…; etc – some of them on a daily basis. He/she must refill these forms again and again, every semester and every year, sometimes with replication in different forms and comply with various requirements. This type of work require time borrowed from research and teaching.
With this in mind, we developed an web application to carry on such bureaucratic jobs in a quick and more effective way. This paper introduces ADIS-Academic Department Information System, a web-based application currently under testing and implementation on the Departamento de Informática of Universidade do Minho.
It also describes in more technical detail, the Fly component and the lessons learned after its use along one academic semester. This on-line web application allows the lecturer to register summaries, programs, list its own timetable and print them. Summaries can also be filled using an email message.
The server which promotes this application is a usual PC with Linux, MySQL, PHP and a web server Apache.
