Msu Online Clearance System For Graduating Student

ABSTRACT

The project outlines and gives support for the Online Clearance System for Graduating Student

which was developed as a final year Project at the Midlands State University. The system has

been developed for Midlands State University and it is a web based to cater for technological

rapid changes. The research was guided by seven objectives; to develop a platform that facilitate

information exchange between the clearance information units (the Library, Student Accounts

and Departmental) and the graduating student. This enables both the student and clearance staff

to clearly communicate upon the clearance process. Secondly, to develop a system that allows

the graduating student to fill the transcript request form online. Geographical barriers are

alleviated as the student can be able to commence the process of clearance as long as the student

is using an internet able access device. To develop a system that allows the student to send issue

requests on the academic fixed information. In the event that a module was added or removed by

mistake, the student can be able to request for such corrections online. To develop a system that

enables the student to check the clearance status online. This enables the student to actually see

how far the clearance process have going without the even coming physically to the clearance

departments. Provided that the student has been successfully cleared, the ticks will be shown on

each respective department. To develop a system that allows the clearance sections to flight

requirements as well as sending messages to the student. The author used research instruments

such as Dreamweaver, MySql, Php, Apache and Wamp server. In addition to this, some

information gathering methodologies such as the interviews, observations as well as

questionnaires were used. Finally the new system was implemented using parallel conversion

method.