The thai qualifications framework (TQF) which has been proposed and legislated by authorities overseeing higher education in thailand, aims to provide some measure of quality control over university level education in the country. TQF dictates that a number of reports pertaining to an academic program be produced for an independent commitee to audit for the program's quality and effectiveness. one of the reports concerns individual course information, which must be filed every semester for every course taught. TGF provides a standard form, the course specification form (CSF), for this report, this paper decribes the design, development, and initial evaluation of a web-based application that allows couse intructors to fill out CFS on-line and save all the information to a centralized database. initial study shows that the amount of time spent in producing the report through our on-line form is three times less than that required using a word processing software. in addition, there are other clear benefits from having the information stored in electronics database. these are, for example, reduction in physical strorage space, and increase speed and accuracy for search and retrieval operations,
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