ABSTRACT
Computerized processing of students result and grading criteria has become on internal part of modern day activity this is as a result of the availability of computers in all spheres of human endeavour, having considered the manual result computation of the Ibom metropolitan polytechnic using the computer science department as a case study, it was discovered that the process was time consuming, abounding errors in computation and the whole cast of writing materials. It was against this background that an automotive result processing was suggested considering the advantages and disadvantages of the new (automated) system and its requirement, this use of computer both soft ware and hardware a wise decision has made as regards to system to be adopted.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Computer and communication technology is the most advance electronic development, which has transformed almost all areas of human endeavor in the present generation. There is almost no field of study or industry, which has not felt a positive impact of the technological trends and development (Bredan, P.K 1992).
Computer technology continues to advance over the year reaching extensive ends and applications. One of such provision of computer technology is the internet. The internet is literarily understood as a global network of computers and allows communication device, which provide a wide range of services and sharing of various forms of resources. One of the provisions that have dominated the internet scene and forms (Bredan, P.K 1992). The main focus of this work is the “WORLD WIDE WEB”. The World Wide Web (WWW) as a major internet provisions is relatively complex and deserves a detailed discussion. Historically, it was a distributed information service developed in the early 1990’s at the European Laboratory for practical physics (CERN) Geneva. It is a large –scale distributed hypermedia system based on networked computer which are attached to integrated network known as the internet and allows access to document from remote areas via connected terminals and computers (Bredan, P.K 1992).
The necessity of an automate management information system, educational development as whole, both nationwide and internationally cannot be over emphasized. The unusual assertion by many professionals that “Information is power” is continually gaining affirmation and reaffirmation as the country continues to witness dynamic trends in information technology (Roberts, L. 1967).
The manual system of information management has serve for a long time now, but you can agree with me that it is not consistent enough, timely enough in the system, due to some physical and human constraints.
With the introduction to automated information system, data capturing, creating, processing, dissemination and storage are more efficient, effective and reliable and the final output in turn is satisfactory to the individuals concerned Roberts, L. (1967).
This project shall be administered to meet statutory regulatory and departmental requirement needs of the system. Automated information system has a level of security that commensurate with the risk and magnitude of the harm that could result, from the loss, misuse disclosure or modification of the information contained in the system. Each system’s level of security must protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information produced (Chidambaram, L. et al 1993). The privacy Act of 1974 in the United States of America imposes strict limitation on the school authority to disclose or rough handle information maintained on individuals without their prior consent (Chidambaram, L. et al 1993).
This information system has the capacity to handle any amount of data produced without complexities. Record keeping in far more complex in school today than in the past because of the incriminating rate at which students are admitted each session. For this reason technological advances have been made available to provide an ultimate way for meeting information requirement as regards to education (Gleason, T. 1994).
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The primary objective of any institution of leaning is teaching to be effective; it must be assessed over a period of time.
The results of the assessments which may be quizzes or test or term papers, laboratory work, exhibition or end of semester examination are expected to be published on time so that the students can know their performance.
Academic advisers use results of students of monitor their academic progress and this will guide them in advising them either to change departments or change their study pattern also parents need the results of their wards in order for them to know how well they are performing academically; this will enable them to advice their wards meaningfully in their performance.
In the event of transfer the receiving institution will want to know the institution, the importance of students’ results cannot be over emphases; hence the preparation of such result should be done in the best possible way.
In this time of computerization, processing has been found to be at optimum advantage in the processing and storage of results.
This is due to numerous characteristics and advantage with regard to its reliability, versatility processing speed and capacity. Hence with the use of computer system, software can be developed to replace manual processing of result which has already witnesses a lot of computational errors during processing.
This research work therefore attempts to encourage, assist and show how results can be processed using computer system in institutions of higher learning. A unique and informative result sheet format will be the product of this project for institutions of higher learning to adopt.
1.3 AIMS & OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The aim of this project is intended to design code and implement an online management information system that will keep track of all the records needed to computer students for easy processing of results.
The objectives are as follows:
1. To restrict the registration of courses based on the mistake of registering the wrong course.
2. To make students readily have access to their result from remote destination at appropriate time.
3. To make results more reliable
4. To provide security measures to avoid missing results.
5. To avoid tampering of results by unauthorized user.
6. To eliminate the problem of switching results.
1.4 SCOPE AND LIMITAION OF STUDY
This project is based only on the analysis made at the department of computer science in Moshood Abiola polytechnic. The on-line system can only be used by the department and students in the department. With some amendments other departments can make use of this application.
Nevertheless this project is limited to automated accessing of students result once entries are made and also on-line registration of appropriate course for each semester. This on-line management information system produces report for only 100 to 400 level student (Full-Time) in the department. It should also be noted that this project is not based in designing automated management information system for department of computer science but thoroughly deals with how students register and process results.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
It is critical for this project to be undertake in order to provide better recording system which can be accessed over the internet from remote destinations, and also allow accurate on-line registration of courses and processing of results also.
This will eventually provide a more organized result recording system and will tend to clear off doubts and fears about the standard of education in the system and the level of knowledge acquired by the students produced by the department. Also serves as a channel of communication between the students, staff and the entire world.
1.6 DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. Automation: is the theory, art and technique of converting a mechanical process to maximize automate operation specially by the use of electronic control mechanisms and electronic computers for the rapid organizing and processing of data in a wide range of technical industrial and business information.
Also automate means to control by information to change or convert to.
2. Program: it is a set logically related instructions that are in sequence and are used to giving solution to specific problems. It is a set of instructions given to the computers to perform a specific task.
3. Information: this simply means processed data.
4. Data: these are raw facts that are not yet processed.
5. Computer: this is an electronic device that is capable of solving problem by accepting data, processing them and producing results.
6. Registration: this is an alphanumeric code used to identify each candidate in the various departments.
7. Form : this is in form of a paper, which requests the candidate to fill in some requirements needed by the institution.
8. ADI : term used to denote application programming interface. A defined set of technologies different programming application.
9. File size :how large the file containing the data is, usually measured in kilobytes or megabytes.
10. Byte : abbreviation of binary term.
11. Frames : formatting a page so that more than one HYML document is visible on the screen at the same time.
12. HTTP : A protocol to transfer hypertext requests an information between serves and browses.
13. Internet : A geographical interconnection of computer together to allow them to exchange data, allowing for service like the database and web.
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