An instructor has been keeping all his grade books in Excel for years. He has a

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An instructor has been keeping all his grade books in Excel for years. He has a separate spreadsheet for every course. In the spreadsheet, he tracks the scores for every assignment and test and then assigns term grades based on the overall averages. Whenever a former student contacts him requesting a letter of recommendation or whenever the administration requests information concerning a student in a previous term, he has to open and search several spreadsheets to get the student’s information.

What are some of the advantages a database would have over the current system for this instructor?

What would be some of the major topics for the database?

Write a statement of work for the preceding database. The statement of work should include:

History

Scope

Constraints

Objectives

Tasks and Timeline

Deliverables

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Explanation / Answer

Answer :

1) The advantages of a Data Base is that it would allow him easier access to students info beacause you would not have to search through all the spreadsheets and

2) Some of the major topics for this database should be :

student name, classes and the year they attend

3) Statement of work for the preceding database :

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