A WEB-BASED FINAL YEAR STUDENTS PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DUPLICATE CHECKER SYSTEM

Description

INTRODUCTION

1.1     Background

Final year students in tertiary institutions are usually expected to undertake one form of academic research or the order, before they graduate (Stanley, 2016). The traditional way of allocating project to students in our higher institution need to be reconsidered since project/research writing is sensitive aspect of student education in the higher institution. At the beginning of graduating session or semester, the students are required to write project on their field of study as part of requirement to complete the academic studies. Each student is allocated to a supervisor who will supervises the academic project to enhance correctness and academic acceptability of the project work. Normally in some institution, the allocation of students to the supervisor is done by the head of academic department/Unit or the project coordinator. There after the student meet their supervisor and the project topic is given to the student to work on or the student himself submit list of topics to the supervisor and the supervisor choose the prefer one (Fabiyi et al., 2016).

Background and Justification

Most times students always want to cut corners by going to copy a project someone has already written maybe one or two years earlier, this has become a problem as there are no new research topics to counter the prevailing problems that spring up daily in the society. So the development of a “web-based final year students project management and duplicate checker system” will be a welcome development to help prevent such acts from students and also lead to students taking their final year research serious especially as it has to do with proffering solutions to problems for better living.

Aim and Objectives

The aim of the study is to develop a web-based final year students project management and duplicate checker system. The following are the specific objectives;

1. To design a new online system that is capable of handling final year project registration.
2. To develop a database server using MYSQL that can communicate with the online final year registration system to store specific data from both supervisors and students.

• To verify and validate the efficiency of the application.

Methodology

This project work is developed with Structured systems analysis and design methodology (SSADM) which is a set of standards for systems analysis and application design. It uses a formal methodical approach to the analysis and design of information systems. This is a choice methodology because it investigates the present system, defines the new system, establishes constraints and system analysis documentation.

Conclusion

In conclusion this project will go a long way especially for computer science students in ensuring that students get serious about choosing project topics that will lead to the development of software’s that can be used to tackle problems in our modern day.