Internship Application System (IAS) for university students using Laravel

Industrial training or internship is an important part of a study program for all university students in Malaysia. The current implementation is done manually where students must apply for internship by filling in paper forms. The purpose of the study is to design, develop and evaluate the Internship Application System (IAS) for university students using Laravel PHP framework. Laravel is a fully-fledged Model View Controller (MVC) framework chosen due to many features it supports, which are valuable set of characteristics which will speed up web development and create powerful, interactive layouts with the contents. Agile methodology was implemented as the research methodology for this study. This methodology consists of five phases which are requirement, planning, design, develop and release. A set of questionnaires was given to participants to evaluate the usability of IAS. Most participants agreed that using the developed system can improve internship application process, with some suggestions on refinement also given to improve the system