ABSTRACT
The system will aid school proprietors, teachers, bursar and general administrative arm of schools to effectively manage students and other stakeholders of the school. The need to have a computerized system that will meet the growing needs of our primary and secondary schools is now critical for the success and growth of the educational institutions. The system will aid in recording results of students, keep accurate track record of all students and teachers information as well as give detailed information on students accounts and fees status. The system is divided into three (3) major phases. One phase is for the principal or proprietor who will serve as the admin to oversee the general running of the school as well as granting privileges and creation of accounts for teachers as well as student registration and information updates. The second phase is for the teachers who enter day-to-day running of the school. The teachers once granted access updates students’ academic records, as well as print report cards. The third stage is for the administrator or the bursar. Here the bursar manages accounts for each student. The system is built with PHP and MYSQL programming language to suit the ever dynamic needs of a school environment.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Education is an indispensable system on which the life of everyone is built and as well stimulates the entire life application. It could be referred to as a process designed for the acquisition and dissemination of skills and knowledge to the posterity of the nation. The identified system tends to be implemented in diverse dimensions basically in schools.
For the past ten years, it has been discovered that schools are not what they were as attributed to the wide ranging changes which have occurred and brought new pressure associated with increased size. On the account of this, an increasing complexity of organization has been instigated so that stresses and anxieties of choice have been added to those of dimension.
The competent educational administration constitute the intensity of education and its impediments mount a disturbing diffusion and obscuring of purpose and all these changes concede with a major recruiting of curriculum and methodology. In most cases, the manual method adopted in monitoring some school activities undermine other roles like enrolment of students, computation of student’s result, examination supervision and marking of examination scripts. With regard to the discrepancies created by the manual techniques of school administration, the school management board should devise a competitive means of achieving their set objective in a computerized school management system.
AIMS/OBJECTIVES
The basic aim of the study is to provide a lasting solution to the problems emanated from the manual means of school management. They are as follows:
- To produce a reliable system that would coordinate most of the school activities.
- To produce a flexible and comprehensive system that would meet up with the future development in the school.
- To design and develop a computerized system that would handle the execution of school activities most especially primary/secondary schools so as to liquidate all the problems identified with the existing system.
- To design and implement a secure school management system for registration and admission of students.
- To design and implement a school management system that will keep track of student information such as school fees and results.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The sudden increase in the number of students enroll in each school has transcended the manipulation of the existing system used by the school administrators and this prompted a lot of problems which encompass the inaccurate computation of students result by the staffs on the account of non-availability of adequate number of computer systems for the computation. This is a very ugly development. Also, it was very complicated to observe when the enrolment of students should cease since there was no efficient system for the estimation of enrolment ratio to give a signal when the enrolment tends to move beyond the projection. All these and more are encountered due to the debilitation of the prevailing system used. It was very difficult to point out students who cheat in the course of examination as attributed to the non-standard measure used in the supervision of the examination. The staff complained seriously about the unnecessary stress encountered while marking the examination answer scripts manually.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The implementation of this computerized system would definitely stimulate the school standard. This would as well help the management to ease the burden on the staff which would be for the benefit of students and staffs. It is also a basic study of research and for the entire populace and future researchers. The use of School Management System has the significance effect and this can be enumerated as follows:
- To help the school to know the pedigree of all the students admitted into the school.
- To create a storage of large volume of data on school records.
- To assist the school management for easy identification of students.
- To prevents students to involve themselves any havoc happening in the school because of the fear tracking them.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study covered the substantive solution to the problems generated by the existing system used in the school administration and management. Also, features will be added to the school management system to improve the efficiency of the services rendered by the school.
1.6Â LIMITATION OF STUDY
This project was faced with a number of restricting factors which made the work impossible to get beyond this scope. The most pressing factors were.
- lack of finance
- epileptic power supply
- inadequate supply of data
- Inadequate time for the project work.
1.7Â DEFINITION OF TERMS
Computation: The act or process of computing/calculation.
Examination: it is the process through which one’s ability is determined after going through a certain process of learning.
Enrolment:Â The act of registering a student as a member of the school.
Department: subdivision of an organization
Management:- judicious use of means to accomplish an end.
Report:- This contains the academic record of a student. It is normally issued at the end of a term.
Software:- These are set of logically related instructions given to the computer to perform some specific tasks.
Student: A person studying at a university other place of higher education.
Student Information: Is a student-level data collection system that allows the department to collect and analyze more accurate and comprehensive information.
Term: duration of a set length; period in a session.
This material content is developed to serve as a GUIDE for students to conduct academic research
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCHOOL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
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