NOOR Education Management System
Dr. Jarallah Saleh AlGhamdi
Ministry Of Education
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
GCC Initiatives Towards eGovernment
& Sustainable Public Services
MoE IT Vision
IT is one of the main pillars of MoE strategy to
enhance education
IT should be an enabler to all MoE functions
IT Should reach all
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World Summit on the Information Society
General Information
• Population:
 27.1 mil
 Citizens: 18.7 mil
 Non-Citizens: 8.4 mil
• Area: 2.2 mil Km2
• Schools: 33K +
• In 45 directorates and 295 districts
• Some schools are in difficult locations
• Mountain / dissert
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Manager
‫ الجوال‬SMS
Internet/ Intranet
eLearning
GIS
Student
email
eServices ‫الخدمات اإلليكترونية‬
Reports / BI‫التقارير ودعم القرار‬
Video
Conference
Parent
Teacher
Principle
ECM &
Correspondence
GRP
EMIS
Systems
....
Stake
Channels Holders
IT infrastructure for MoE
Communication systems
Operating Systems
Security systems and tools
Backup Systems
Servers ‫الخوادم‬
Physical
Infrastructure
Databases (unified, secure, & integrated)
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‫نظام نور لإلدارة التربوية‬
NOOR Education Management
System
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NOOR System Main Objectives
• Provide wide range of eServices for 56 kinds of stakeholders
– Teachers, Principles, students, Parents, …… etc.
– Easier services, Anytime, any where
– More satisfaction
• Provide Statistics, Reports & KPIs about education
– At school, district, & Kingdom wide level
– Better Quality
– Better planning
– more cost effective
NOOR System Main Objectives
cont
• Provide full functionality of school administration for
all K-12 schools in Saudi Arabia
• Efficiency & effectiveness of the education system
• Accurate and timely data
• More transparent
• Connect all schools to the ministry
– Last 2700 schools through VSAT
NOOR eServices
• Student
– Grades, student info, class schedule, Teacher comments,
Home-works, attendance
• Parent
– Child info, Child grades, Child schedule, Child attendance,
Teacher comments, transfer to other school, admission to
1st grade
• Teacher
– Teacher info, class schedule, post grade, post comment,
Own evaluation
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2013 NOOR Usage
item
Max network usage
Max DB servers utilization
Max Application servers utilization
Max storage I/O
Data to DB
Data read from DB
Total transactions
# of students
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value
236 MB/ sec
65%
40%
6000 RW/ sec
64 Terabytes
408 Terabytes
21 billions
5.2 millions
Different subsystems
Phase 2: core
system -2
Phase 1:
Building the
core system
Phase5:
Phase 4: Spread
Phase 3:
expansion
Teacher Spcl cases
Teacher Affairs
Student Advising
Admission
High School
Student health
Islamic Awareness
School Supervision
Elementary School
Intermediate School
Purchasing
Building & Maint.
Student transfer
Student Plan
Semester Based Sys
School lending
Transportation
Special Education
Class Schedule
Info Architecture
Student Fin. Asst
Priv. school Aff.
Illiteracy Program
Year start Prep.
Attendance
Reports
Communication
Teacher training
School Planning
Grading
Not started
Under development
Soon
Deployed
Conclusion
• NOOR has reached to all schools and provided
essential education services
• Availability of data about education activities
• Provide essential eServices
• Feedback shows users happy about the system
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