CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION
Project Context
Enrollment is the process of entering and verifying data of student to register on a
particular school. Most of the colleges and universities today are already implementing Online
Enrollment System for the ease and convenience of the students and staffs as well. However,
in Binangonan Catholic College, the students still undergo in manual enrollment procedure
which is very inconvenient and hassle for both sides, the students and staffs.
One of the main problems facing by the said school is the generation of forms. The
students needed to fill-up four copies of the registration form (copy for the student, finance
office, registrar and college department). Students were consuming a lot of time in doing
such. Since the students are manually filling-up the official documents of the school, data
redundancy has a great possibility in causing further complexity in the enrollment process.
Another problem of the school is the lack of enrollment personnel. The outcome was that the
school had a hard time in accommodating large number of students, and that made it hard for
other students to wait in line.
The enrollment itself can be considered as a problem in every educational institution,
from evaluation to validation, it is a long process. Students have to go back and forth in
different offices to complete the enrollment procedure. It can be tiring and such a waste of
effort for them.
For these reasons, the researchers decided to explore a web based approach for a
new Enrollment System that can reduce the man power needed to facilitate an enrollment
process. By this, it will become more accessible to those students wishing to enroll through
the web. The system will also make the work of faculty and staff faster, easier and more
comprehensive.

Purpose and Description of the Project

The researchers proposed a system, which is entitled Web-based Enrollment System
for Binangonan Catholic College. The main purpose of this study is to provide a wellintegrated process and faster performance of enrollment. This system will eliminate paper
works that can reduce human errors and processing time. It will be a monitoring system to
cut down double entries of subjects made by the students that causes redundancy. It will
record and retrieve students data in order to provide more accurate information needed by
the school. As a result, it will benefit not only the student but the administration as a whole.

Conceptual Framework
The conceptual framework identifies how the cycle of the proposed system performs.
The figure below shows the components and works of the IPO (Input Process Output) model.
The input process output (IPO) model is a graphical representation of all the factors that
make up a process. It includes all of the materials and information required for the process.
Input is the flow of data to the system from outside. It allows users to communicate and feed
instructions and data to computers for processing, display, storage and/or transmission. The
next stage of IPO model is processing. The researchers used a RAD (Rapid Application
Development) Diagram for software development. The final stage in the information flow is
normally to present the information in a user-friendly way. Output is the information flowing
out of the system.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - is a standard markup language that web browsers
use to interpret and compose text, images, and other material into visual or audible web

pages.
MySQL (Structured Query Language) - is the worlds most popular open source database,
enabling the cost-effective delivery of reliable, high-performance and scalable Web-based
and embedded database applications. It is ideal for both small and large applications.
Notepad++ - is a free source, feature-packed code editor running under the MS Windows
environment that more or less has everything Notepad needs. It supports 27 programming
languages, searches regular expressions, and supports syntax highlighting and folding,
synchronized edits and views, and much more.
JavaScript (JS) - is a lightweight, interpreted, programming language with first-class
functions. Most well-known as the scripting language for Web pages, many non-browser
environments also use it. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm, dynamic scripting language,
supporting object-oriented, imperative, and declarative styles.
XAMPP - is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package
developed by Apache Friends. It is a simple, lightweight Apache distribution that makes it
extremely easy for developers to create a local web server for testing and deployment
purposes. XAMPP stands for Cross-Platform (X), Apache (A), MariaDB (M), PHP (P) and Perl
(P).
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - is a style sheet language used for describing the
presentation of a document written in a markup language. It is designed primarily to enable
the separation of document content from document presentation, including aspects such as
the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more
flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics.
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) - is a popular general-purpose scripting language that
is especially suited to web development.