Digital Repository and Automated Result Processing System: An Implementation
Chapter One
Preamble of the Study
ICT and the preservation of students’ results and information in every semester is a fundamental issue for every educational institution (Abu and Abel 2013). These yield students’ academic records, called transcripts. Christian, Lev, and Eugenia (2013) defines a transcript of academic record as a certified statement detailing a student’s complete academic record at the University or other higher institutions of learning. The process of ICT, and preservation of students’ examination results is tedious, time-consuming, and error prone, most especially when not automatically handled and or when large number of students are involved. The increase in students’ population over the years has made the work of examination officers and other officers in charge of processing students’ result a very exasperating exercise (Obiniyi and Ezugwu, 2010). These processes are to be carried out every academic session; consequently it keeps the operators in an unremitting and ever challenging cycle. Except for the use of an accurate and effective system, results ICT have tendency to convey misleading information to decision makers (Eyo and Ofoegbu, 2012).
Chapter Two
Operational Description
- The Database: The database (Result Management System) makes available facilities for administration, ICT, documentation, preservation and presentation of students’ academic
- The Resource Centre: The resource centre enabling digital material that all students should posses for all available
- The DRARPS: The DRARPS is a central directory/repository that links the students and lecturers with examination records and information, such as portable document format (pdf) files, website, results and This was developed using the programming language below:
- HTML(Hypertext Markup Language), a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, colour, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web It was used as the markup language for the presentation of this system.
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a style sheet language used for describing the look and formatting of a document written in a markup It was used to style the look of the system.
- PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. It was used as the backend development language for
- JavaScript, an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web It was used to set actions for certain behaviours in the DRARPS.
- MySQL (My Structured Query Language), a widely used open-source relational database management system. It was used for data management and organization in the
- WAMP Server (Windows Apache MySQL PHP Server), a web development platform on Windows that allows the creation of Dynamic web applications with Apache2, PHP and MySQL. It was used to create a local testing server for DRARPS.
- The Web Server: The web server accepts and responds to the student requests. By getting URL, translates it, send it back over the internet from local disk, execute it, and send the output of the program back over the internet to the requesting
- The Web Browser: The web browser is an interface through which the students, lecturer and administrators retrieve, present, and traverse information resources on DRARPS Flowchart.
Chapter Three
Material and Method
For the purpose of actualizing the set goals of this study, Digital Repository and Automated Result Processing System (DRARPS) was developed. In this research, repetitive and dynamic model were used to develop the DRARPS application, using HTML5/CSS3/JAVASCRIPT/PHP/MySQL. The front-end interface was designed using HTML5 (Hyper-text Markup Language), CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheet) and JavaScript, while the backend functionalities are powered by PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) server side scripting language and MySQL (My Structured Query Language) which runs on a web server. For local testing, WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL and PHP) server was used.
Chapter Four
System Testing
Testing of the newly developed system is important because it enables the developer access how end users interact with the system. DRARPS was tested with students’ academic records sourced from the Department of Computer Science, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State, Nigeria. The department lecturers and more than 70% of student population of the department were involved in the testing phase. Students of computer science were considered appropriate for this research due to their largest population when compared with other departments in the College of Science and Information Technology of the University and as well required little training efforts on the system usage.
Chapter Five
Conclusion and Future work
The DRARPS is an innovative way of digitizing student results for provision of accurate ICT, instant access to the needed results and record at most required time, thereby reducing the stress of the students checking their results. Lecturers and non-academic personnel handling results are not left out in the benefit. DRARPS provides better way of communicating with students easily, the outcomes of their academic performances. It is flexible and modifiable application with CGPA module, via graphical user interface (GUI) rather than command-line approach. Also, DRARPS is user friendly, reasonably secure, and ensure data integrity, resulting from the use of a relational database management system. The lecturers can now with ease, update the students, while students get updated with their academics records and information online using DRARPS via both personal computers and mobile devices.
This research has been able to develop and implement another result management system that is efficient, robust, reliable and cost effective. Furtherance, on this research, would require determining the level of DRARPS efficiency by carrying out empirical study on the quality of service (QoS) metric with respect to access from remote systems, thereby further improving the quality and functionalities of the system interface using more updated design such as Google’s Material Design.
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