Design And Implementation Of Course Registration And Examination Processing System

Computer Science Project Material with Source Code Included

Computer Science Project Material with Source Code Included

Chapter One

1.1 Introduction

There were three fundamentally distinct education systems in Nigeria in 1990: the indigenous system, Quranic schools, and formal European-style education institutions. In the rural areas where the majority lived, children learned the skills of farming and other work, as well as the duties of adulthood, from participation in the community. This process was often supplemented by age-based schools in which groups of young boys were instructed in community responsibilities by mature men. By the 1970s, education experts were asking how the system could be integrated into the more formal schooling of the young, but the question remained unresolved by 1990. Western-style education came to Nigeria with the missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century. Although the first mission school was founded in 1843 by Methodists, it was the Anglican Church Missionary Society that pushed forward in the early 1850s to found a chain of missions and schools, followed quickly in the late 1850s by the Roman Catholics. In 1887 in what is now southern Nigeria, an education department was founded that began setting curricula requirements and administered grants to the mission societies. By 1914, when north and south were united into one colony, there were fifty-nine government and ninety-one mission primary schools in the south; all eleven secondary schools, except for King’s College in Lagos, were run by the missions.

The education system focused strongly on examinations. In 1916 Frederick Lugard, first governor of the unified colony, set up a school inspectorate. Discipline, buildings, and adequacy of teaching staff were to be inspected, but the most points given to a school’s performance went to the numbers and rankings of its examination results. This stress on examinations was still used in 1990 to judge educational results and to obtain qualifications for jobs in government and the private sector.

As more information is made available in a variety of formats and media and in a variety of locations, the need to manage information/data efficiently becomes more and more critical. Both staff and public users want access to stored information and want to access it more efficiently. It is the University Policy to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of course registration and result processing operations and services through the implementation of an integrated automated database System.

1.2 Background of the Study

Caritas University is made up of four (4) faculties namely:

  1. Engineering with the following departments: Computer, Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
  2. Environmental with the following departments: Architecture, Urban & Regional Planning and Estate Management.
  3. Management and Social Sciences with the following departments: Accountancy, Economics, Business Administration, Public Administration, Political Science, Industrial Relation and Personnel Management, Mass Communication, Marketing, Banking and Finance.
  4. Natural Sciences with the following departments: Biochemistry, Computer Science & Information Technology, Industrial Chemistry, Mathematics & Statistics and Microbiology & Biotechnology.

In Universities like Caritas, the need for automated method of keeping data has been there. Software, so many of them has been developed and even sold worldwide to solve this problem. I have analyzed these software and discovered that very many of them are inefficient. Students as well has researched and developed their own software but they could not give or develop error free software that will assist in result generation, automated course registration to keep or build a database of results in the University that will facilitate students’ transcripts.

This problem has been delaying or delayed the results of graduating or graduated students that has made some of them not to go for youth service when they ought to or ought to have gone and has even made some not to have gone at all. To bridge this gap or solve this problem, there is a need to develop software that is accurate, error free as the problem has imposed so much stress on both exams and record and the management in Universities.

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1.3 Statement of the Problem

Database of information is vital in today’s education with respect to course registration and examination result processing. This has become a very vital issue as students spend so much time trying to know the number of credit units for each semester. This problem has lead to time wasting, inaccuracy of results and even open to fraud. Cases of missing results have been recorded thereby making examination processing more difficult and untimely.

1.4 Objectives of the Study

The objectives of this study are to:

  1. Provide a reliable solution to result processing that is corruption free.
  2. Ensure that normal credit load in line with the school is maintained.
  3. Provide a software that will generate result that is accurate, timely and error free.

1.5 Significance of the Study

The project work will help in a good number of ways to ease the delay in manual examination processing. The software developed will help schools management to achieve efficient information management system. There are many other advantages, and some of them are listed below.

  1. It saves time during examination processing
  2. Database for course registration and examination result is maintained
  3. References are very fast and delays can be avoided.
  4. It allows easy access to stored information.
  5. Help in reducing the costs such as labor, inventory and stationary.
  6. Generation of accurate results/information on transactions is sure.

1.6 Scope of the Study

This research work will concentrate on course registration and examination processing system using Caritas University (Computer Science & Information Technology Department) as a case study. The system developed will only cover registration of students, course registration and result processing.

1.7 Definition of Terms / Variables

Information System:

It is a collection of procedures, people, Instructions and equipment to produce information in a useful form.

Technology:

It is study of techniques or process of mobilizing Resource (such as information) for accomplishing objectives that benefits man and his environment.

Information:

Information can be defined as the process of gathering, transmitting, receiving, storing and retrieving data or several items put together to convey a desired message.

Computer Network:

Computer Network is a system that connects two or more computers together using a communication link.

Databases:

A systematically arranged collection of computer data, structured so that it can be automatically retrieved or manipulated. It is also called databank.

File Transfer:

Any kind of computer file can be sent via the Internet from one Internet user to another. Table of accounts on spreadsheets, design by a graphic artists, music sound files etc, can all be exchanged in this way.

Chapter Five

Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

5.1 Summary

This research work focuses on the use of computer system with reference to course registration, result processing in Computer Science and Information Technology Department, Caritas University.

The work covers the manual system of operations as regards the problems identified, stating the aims of the new system, stating the various specifications and then implementing the programs. The work was successfully developed using visual basic, a user- friendly programming language, and the package was tested and improved upon which yields an automated course registration, examination processing and transcript processing system.

The project work cannot be said to be perfect, but however, its benefits cannot be overemphasized. It has led to the improvement in the speed of processing operation, efficiency, accuracy and improved storage of data.

5.2 Conclusion

Realizing a project of this nature is very exciting. However, the students encounter a lot a problem which I believe if looked into, will go a long way toward reducing the tension associated with the design implementation and construction of the project.

In spite of the constraints encountered during the implementation of this project, the aim of my project is well accomplished.

Moreover, an attempt to accomplish this project has taken care of the delay between examination and result processing with minimum mistakes. This has also forced me to learn, practically, what is involved in the design and implementation or computerization of project (existing or non-existing).

Finally, I wish to commend the university system and indeed the department of computer science for this project inclusion as a course that must be taken by graduating students it is a step in the right direction to withstand the future challenges in computing in companies, industries, institutions and the world at large.

5.3 Recommendations

Based on the achieved objective of this project and the experiences gained during its designed and implementation, I wish to make the following recommendations for future improvement. Students should be exposed to serious practical exercise during the course of their studies. In this regard, the students of Computer Science & Information Technology should be made to write at least a working program with veritable results before graduating. This could be accomplished by providing more computers qualified lecturers in the department.

Tertiary institutions should computerize their result processing system for greater efficiency, neatness, and reliability. This will go a long way to save the student all the trouble they go through trying to get their results in one form or the other.

Finally, the students’ project should be closely supervised and monitored to achieve more success.

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