CHAPTER 3

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

This chapter contains the technicality of the project; How the present system will work,
details of technology to be used in creating, deploying and how will the project work,

Technicality of the project

The present system of the school use manual collecting, recording and distributing grades
to the students. The teachers record and compute the grades on Microsoft Excel, print a
copy and write the final grades of the students on their class cards, then later pass it to
the registrar’s office for safe keeping and distribution. As for announcements if the
grades are available for distribution, students ask the registrar if not their teachers for
their class cards.

Drawbacks

 Large amount of time in writing grades on class cards for teachers.

 Class cards and Class records maintainability is difficult.
 Large amount of clerical time is required for the registrar.
 Distribution of class cards is time consuming.

Details of technology to be used

In this proposed project the developers will use PHP Hypertext Preprocessor for
the server-side back-end programming to develop the websites server-side
functionalities and phpMyAdmin database for storing data. The developers will also use
HTML Hypertext Mark-up Language, JavaScript, CSS Cascading Style Sheet and other
open-source front-end web framework for designing the website application. The project
will be created on Sublime Text 3 which is an open-source text editor for various
programming languages, and XAMPP Cross-Platform (X), Apache (A), MariaDB (M),
PHP (P) and Perl (P) a free and open source cross-platform web server solution, a tool for
the project to run without internet and web hosting server. The technologies to be used
in implementing the project must be a desktop PC or laptop that has at least dual core
processor or higher computing rate for better performance, four (4) gigabytes of RAM to
handle all the processes executed by the application and the database better. The system
unit must also have the necessary third-party applications like browsers to test and
implement the project. For the project to be deployed and available to be accessed
through the internet a web host must be purchased. A Web host provide server
space, Web services and file maintenance for Web sites controlled by individuals or
companies that do not have their own Web servers.

How the Project will work

The project is designed to meet the needs of the three major classes of stakeholder.
The Students, faculty and registrar staffs and the administrators. The students are
provided a fast, convenient, and secure online access to their grades and feedback for
each of their Subjects. Similarly, the faculty and registrar staffs are provided with fast and
convenient way to record and distribute the grades the ability to revise the grades and
the ability to view their students’ grades.

The administrator will have the ability to oversee the process and actions of other
stakeholders, including view and export grades. The project is also designed to minimize
the drawbacks that exist on the present system. Switching to paperless inquiry and
distribution of grades will save money, time and avoid missing class cards and class
records. The project will help the registrar’s office to work more efficiently.

Benefits of the System

The benefits of the proposed capstone project are listed below:

1. It will lessen the cost of resources to be used in recording and distributing grades.
2. It will provide fast and convenient way of recording and distributing grades.
3. It is available anytime and anywhere through the internet.