A Student Grading Management System a Case Study of Mbarara Army Senior Secondary School

TABLES OF CONTENTS

Declaration

Dedication ii

Acknowledgement

Table of content

List of Acroynms

Abstract

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 Introduction 1

1.1 Background 1

1.2 Statement of the problem 1

1.3 Main objectives

1.3.1 Specific objectives

1.4 Significance of the study 1

1.5 Scope of the study 2

CHAPTER TWO 3

LITERATURE REVIEW 3

2.0 Introduction 3

2.1 Management 3

2.1.1 Management system 5

2.2 Management concept 6

2.2.1 System 6

2.3 Information system(J5) 7

2.3.1 Components of an information system 7

2.4 Records management 8

2.4.1 Types of records 9

DHAPTER THREE 10

I1ETHODOLOGY 10

3.0 Introduction 10

3.1 Study population 10

3.2 Procedure for data collection 10

3.3 Primary data source 10

3.4 Secondary data source 10

3.5 Data collection techniques 11

3.5.1 Interview 11

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3.5.2 Questionnaires .1 1

3.5.3 Observation 11

3.6 Limitations 1 1

3.7 Conclusion 12

CHAPTER FOUR 13

SYSTEM DESIGN 13

4.0 Introduction 13

4.1 System design model 13

4.2 System testing 13

4.3 Requirements analysis 13

4.4 Hardware requirements 14

4.5 Software requirement 14

4.6 Current system 15

4.7 Proposed system 16

4.8 The advantages of the proposed system 17

4.9 System entity relationship 17

4.10 Conclusion 19

DHAPTER FIVE 20

)ISCUSSION,CONCUJSION AND RECOMMENDATION 20

5.0 Introduction 20

5.1 Problems encountered 20

5.2 Recommendations 20

5.3 Conclusion 20

REFERENCES 21

\PPENDICES 22

\ppendix A 22

6.0 Entity relationship tables 22

6.1 Sample of the system 23

6.2 Login prompt 24

6.3 Class interfaces 25

6.4 Teachers interface 28

~ppendix B 29

7.0 QUESTIONNAIRE 29

7. 1 Budget 32

7.2 Timer frame

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Appendix

8.0 Sample

ABSTRACT The research was carried out at Mbarara Army Senior Secondary school, Mbarara district Uganda. The study was mainly carried out in the department of academics. The academics department use manual filing system for the storage of students’ results. The design of this study consisted of six respondents who were selected at random at Mbarara Army Senior Secondary school, that gave the researcher relevant information about the system at school. The various methods of research finding methods were used to collect the data from the field:-questionnaire, interview and observation. Both secondary and primary data were collected using the methods identified above. The researcher faced problems like:-the delay of the respondents to return questionnaires in time because of the respondents' failure about the new system and some respondents hid vital information because of the fear of losing their job. Problems faced by the current system in recording students results; students’ results can be lost at any time. The students’ results management system will help MASSS to capture, process, and store and disseminate students’ results easily. SOMS was designed in Microsoft visual basic (6.0) and its related technologies of database as the designing tools. It makes it easy to access information as faster as possible and this involves real time reports. [t also shows how the whole system can be made secure to avoid an authorized access to its various resources. Role authentication is put into use so as to accomplish the goal of the whole project that is to provide students results management system that facilitates ~ffectiveness, user friendly and efficiency in the students result management system (SRMS) it Mbarara Army Senior Secondary school.