Design And Implementation Of A Responsive Secure Student Case Grading System For An Academic Affairs Directorate In A University.

ABSTRACT:

Online semester defer application system is basically customized to the directorate of academic affairs in any university. Students are expected to log into the university’s website and apply for semester or year they would wish to defer by filling an application form. Thereafter the director of academic affairs who is solely responsible for approving students applications retrieves their respective details from the university’s database and verifies as to whether the approval would be genuine or not. The directorate approves or denies approval via a customized java desktop application based in the office of the directorate. The directorate then should respond to students by sending them electronic mails on the same through their captured e-mail addresses in the

database. After approval to the university’s database the information can thus be shared within relevant departments for instance by using Microsoft office excel spreadsheets which primarily are currently in use in the university. This document is a report of the project entitled student case grading System. It shows the steps and stages the researcher took in the implementation

process laid down in chapters. The report first introduces the project explaining the background and scope of the project. The topics investigated to write the literature review included but not limited to; what is a Students case grading System and functions of the student’s case grading system.

The methodology used in the research highlights the research design, the target and sample population, the sampling procedures and techniques used plus the procedure for collection and analysis of findings. The report also covers and outlines the comprehensive activities the researcher undertook in the design stage giving out diagrammatic representations of different designs. Generally it simplifies the whole process of semester defer application compared to the manual process of application, approval and response waiting.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

CHAPTER ONE 1

INTRODUCTION 1

1.OGENERAL INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 BACKGROUND 1

1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT 2

1.3.1 MAIN OBJECTIVE 2

1.3.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 2

1.5 SCOPE 3

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE 4

CHAPTER TWO 5

2.0 INTRODUCTION

2.JSTUDENT CASE GRADING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

2.2 INFORMATION SYSTEM 6

2.3 DATABASE 6

2.3.1 DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 7

2.3.2 COMPONENTS OF A DBMS 7

2.3.3 FUNCTIONS OF A DBMS 8

2.3.4 SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE 8

CHAPTER THREE 10

3.1 INTRODUCTION 10

3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN 10

CHAPTER FOUR 14

4.0 INTRODUCTION 14

4.1 SYSTEM ANALYSIS 14

4.2 THE WATER FALL MODEL 15

CHAPTER FIVE 25

5.0 INTRODUCTION 25

2. APPENDIX A 32

2.0 WORK PLAN 67

2.1 BUDGET OF THE SYSTEM 67

3. APPENDIX B 67

3.0 RESEARCH INSTRUMENT 68

3.0.1 Questionnaire to be responded to by the students ofKampala International University 69

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LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES:

1. Table 1-Test Plan pg 29

2. Table 2-Work Plan pg 67

3. Table 3-Budget of the System pg 67

4. Fig 1.1-Usecase Table pg 14

5. Fig 1.2-Online semester defer use case pg 16

6. Fig 1.3-Online Application Use Case pg 16

7. Fig 1.4-Sequence Diagram-Online Application pg 18

8. Fig 1.5-Log in Form pg 19

9. Fig 1.6-Application Form pg 20, 21

10. Fig 1.7-Thank You Page pg 22

11. Fig 1.8-Students Database Schema pg 23

12. Fig 1.9-Database Student: Table Details pg 24

13. Fig 2.0-Customized Desktop Applicatiow pg 27

14. Fig 2.1-Approved Page On Desktop Application: pg 2