Development Of Student Information Management System (A Case Study Of Computer Science Department, Fuoye)

ABSTRACT

Student Information Management System (SIMS) provides a simple interface for maintenance of student information. It can be used by educational institutes or colleges to maintain the records of students easily. A number of problems associated with student academic record management include improper course registration, late release of students' results, inaccuracy due to manual and tedious calculation and retrieval difficulties/inefficiency. In most cases the data generated by academic institutions are usually created in non-delineated files for use by different departments/units within the institutions with the samr data appearing on several of these files. This means that a simple change of address would have to be processed in two and probably three or four places, depending on the number of other files on which these data appears. The development of database concept is the answer to these problems where the amount of redundant data is reduced and the possibility that data contained on a file might be inaccurate because they were never updated. The system presents a single platform that will be used to manage and process data for all categories of students in a seamless and interactive manner. The design technology adopted for the implementation is a client/server technology, with MYSQL as the server technology and PHP as the client technology. Apache is used as the Web server. The data used were obtained from the department of Computer science, Federal University Oye-Ekiti. This system will increase efficient service delivery and provides added advantage in the department. The developed system has been tested and yielded a satisfactory result but there is still need for further research on this work for it to be able to compute results for the department to reduce mistakes in computation of result and loss of results.