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October 2013
1. Introduction
Education system can be considered as the number one factor for development in the world. That is the reason why it is crucial to provide a strong educational foundation to the young generation. Advanced information technology available today can play a vital role in simplifying education-related processes to promote easy interaction among students, teachers, parents and the school staff. Currently the government is now putting more emphasizes on the educational sector by training and upgrading teachers, building more schools facilities, sponsoring brilliant student to further their education and more action which have been undertaken in both primary and secondary schools. In order to facilitate and simplify these actions one of the basic tool is to have an automated school management system. Automation is the utilization of technology to replace human with a machine that can perform more quickly and more continuously (W. Erben, August 2000). By automating the school management information system, documents that take up large storage rooms can be stored on a single personal computer. It reduces the time to retrieve old transcripts from hours to seconds. However, the school system used in most of the governmental and private schools in Ghana is not automated, all transcripts and reports are manually generated and the school administrators use their experienced knowledge of trial and error approaches to prepare timetables.
In order to attain the general objective, the following list of specific objectives is set: To allow teachers, administrations and other stakeholder to view reports on students, To develop an offline registration system, To help check imbalances of accounts, To automatically generate timetable, To generate payroll for staff.
process system for institutions of high learning such as universities, colleges, polytechnics and so forth.
1.6 Methodology
To develop a web based application management system, it will be necessary to use two types of methodology namely research methodology and software engineering development methodology. The research methodology will be done through questionnaire administration and interview conduction of potential stakeholders of the system to acquire their needs. The second methodology will be applied for the development of a prototype. At this stage, Prototyping Model will be used to develop this application. The Prototyping model is a technique for quickly building a function but incomplete model of the information system. The system will be developed using PHP as the front-end and MySQL as the back-end.
1.7 Expected Results of the Study & Possible Use (Research/Study Deliverables)
This project is to demonstrate that the implementation of the SMIS in Techiman Business College will improve quality of services, and also control and automate the information system process. In other words, the introduction of an automated student report generation, a tool design to check imbalances of accounts, an automated timetable generation feature, an easy to use registration system and a function to automatically generate payroll for staff that will be developed at the end of the project should ease the information management process of Techiman Business College.
and describe concepts with regard to SMIS, aiming to give a general view to the reader of the document about tasks or activities which need automation in the school environment. Chapter four and five will present the analysis and design of the system to be developed respectively. In the remaining chapters, prototype development of the system, the system documentation, the conclusion and recommendations will be briefly explained.
These two phases of the project will be done simultaneously to quickly acquire enough facts to make a proper analysis of the proposed system. Data will be gathered from potential stakeholders of the system and online literature. Because of its importance the first five (5) weeks will be dedicated for its completion starting from November 2013.
Analysis of the Proposed System:
After getting more facts concerning the system from the case study and also other publication concerning the SMIS, critical analysis will be made, and then an alternative solution will be proposed. This phase will take one month to be completed.
From what was returned from the analysis stage, a detailed design on how the proposed system will be built with all its features will be conducted. This phase will be done within five (5) weeks.
System Implementation and Testing
This is where the actual development of the system (or prototype) will be undertaken with also error detection and solving. This phase is the most complex part so it will require two (2) months to be completed.
System Documentation
After everything is done, a detailed and easy to understand manual or tutorial on how the new system should be used. This phase will start basically during the testing phase and should be completed by April 2013.