DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ELECTRONIC COURSE FORM REGISTRATION (A CASE STUDY OF CARITAS UNIVERSITY)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Table of content
List of Figures
List of Tables

ABSTRACT

Chapter One: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background
1.2 Problem Definition
1.3 Aims and Objectives of the Project
1.4 Scope of work
1.5 Significance of the Project
1.6 Limitations of the Project

Chapter Two: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.0 Introduction
2.1 Information Management System
2.2 Dynamic Web Application
2.3 Brief History of Web Application
2.4 Typical Structure of a Web Application
2.5 Mode of Web Application Operation
2.5.1 Typical HTML Implementation
2.5.2 Typical HTML/PHP Implementation

Chapter Three: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

3.0 Introduction
3.1 Systems Study and Analysis
3.2 System Methodology
3.3 System Organization Structure
3.4 Data Collection
3.5 System Process Model
3.6 Database Design for the Computer-Based School Management
Information System
3.7 Input/Output and Report Formats Design Input Analysis
3.8 Application Modules Design
3.9 Justification of the New System
4.0 System Implementation Platform
4.1 Hardware Platform
4.2 Software Platform
4.3 MySQL DDL/DML/DQL/DCL
4.4 System Development
4.5 System Design
4.6 System Requirement
4.7 Data Communication Facilities Requirement
4.8 Computer Hardware Requirements
4.9 Databases and Support Software Requirements
4.1.0 System Implementation
4.1.1 System Test Description
4.1.2 Pre-conversion work
4.1.3 Conversion
4.1.4 Crash Approach
4.1.5 Pilot Approach
4.1.6 Parallel Approach
4.1.7 Changeover Procedure
4.1.8 System Maintenance
4.1.9 User Training

Chapter Five: SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION

5.0 Summary
5.1 Recommendation
5.2 Conclusion

REFERENCES

APPENDIX I (Program Codes

APPENDIX II (Interfaces)

LIST OF TABLES

Table 3.2: Format for data collection for Returning Student School fees payment

Table 3.3: Format for data collection for a New Student School fees payment

Table 3.4: Format for Data collection for Courses Registration

Table 3.5: Format for Authentication/login page for Students

Table 3.6: Format for Authentication/login page for Lecturers/Academic advisers

Table 3.7: Authentication/login data collection page for Site and Database Admin.

Table 3.9: Format for database design for the Computer-based Information Management System.

LIST OF FIGURES

Fig. 2.1: Communication between a Web Browser and a Web Server

Fig 2.2 Response from a Web Server to the Web Browser

Fig 2.3: Interaction between Web Browser and the Database

Fig 3.1: Organizational Structure

Fig 3.9: School fees payment Flowchart for New Students

Fig 3.9.1: School fees payment flowchart for returning student

Fig 4.1: System Development Cycle

Fig 4.2: Snap shot of a website

Fig 4.3: Pictorial explanation of PHP interaction

Fig 4.4: Communication between web browser and web server

Fig 4.5: Response web server to the web browser

ABSTRACT

This project is centered on an online registration system using Caritas University as a case study. It concentrates on the design of a dynamic web application and departmental portal and functional database responsible for an online registration with an aim of facilitating electronic method/means of school fees payment, course form registration; designation of course advisers to students, management of departmental staff, academic activities of students, among others, hence helping the institution to overcome the problems of manual registration system. This manual process could be tedious, clumsy, inefficient and easily dispensable. It can result in delayed services, complaints from all involved (both students and staff), loss of files which could easily due to natural or manmade disaster, bulkiness, inadequacy of proper storage in the right files and lastly unavailability of information about the department for intending students.

Therefore, this project provides a web application as well as database to have these records and to make life easier in this area. The development tools used for this project include Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), (Structured Query Language) Relational Database Management System (RDMS) and JAVAScript.