Keyword: «state final certification»

According to the current regulations, achieving a high degree of “digital maturity” of the education sector on the basis of a unified, high-quality, safe educational space is a strategic direction for the development of the Russian Federation. The procedure of the state final certification (SFC) is a mandatory part of educational programs at higher education institutions. The effectiveness of the SFC procedure in higher education institutions can be improved by eliminating a number of problems. The main ones include significant time costs for organizational processes, lack of an effective tool for interaction between graduates and supervisors, and the need to manually fill out paper documentation. The solution is the implementation of an information system to automate the management of certification processes. The aim of the article is to use information technologies for working out an automated system that supports the management of state final certification in higher education institutions to reduce time costs for organizational processes. The leading method of research is empirical analysis, survey and interviewing, study of world experience of information technology implementation in the educational process, analysis of regulations of state final certification in various educational institutions to identify the problems and requirements for the information system – web application with client-server architecture. At the stage of system design the actors were identified and their roles were described, functional and other requirements to the system were formulated, UML-diagrams for modeling user interaction in the system and data flows were developed. The developed client-server application has successfully passed a series of functional, load and usability testing. The documentation on implementation and operation of the system was formed, recommendations for continuing work on it were described. The possibilities of improving the architecture and realized functions of the application using computer vision methods and integration with information systems of higher education institutions were evaluated. Theoretical significance of the research: generalization of the world experience in the implementation of information technologies in the educational process. The approaches described in the work can be adapted to the realities of the Russian educational system. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the implementation of its results will ensure the reduction of time costs for organizational processes of the SFC procedure, improving the quality of process management, increasing accessibility for all participants of the educational process.