Development of a web based software system for a modern day care center

Abstract

Now-a-days the task of rearing and bearing of children becomes a great challenge for parents especially for job-holders or engaged in study. An ideal day care center is a sweet home for a baby away from home but provides the best caring and learning with passion and professionalism to the beloved children in the temporary absence of their parents. In order to create such environment, it should be equipped and integrated with modern information and communication technology. This report presents a web based software system from where all the stake holders of the day care center such as manager, parents, teachers, admin etc. can play their role and take necessary actions and convey necessary messages to the proper person immediately. The software system is developed based on Laravel framework and MySQL in order to reduce the cost of management and make it convenient for the users. It includes the most popular components of a common management system like administration, parents, teachers, child, and doctors and E-mail/SMS notification. It stores data without any manual paper-based work. The system facilitates the end users with interactive design and automated processing of day care management. It is possible to notify any information or update to the respective stake holders through SMS using the system. On web server, parent, teacher and doctor can view specific child information after authentication. Parents have the access right to view his children and related data. Moreover they can communicate with admin, doctors and teachers. Parents can view the child exam information too. Teacher and Doctor have similar kind of functionality. They can view children information which are under his supervision. They can communicate with parents and admin and view specific messages or notifications. Consequently, the developed system will save time and effort and will provide much reliable output than the existing manual procedures. Therefore, the developed system can be a welcome addition to the day care center of our country.