SEMINAR PRESENTATION

ON

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF

DEPARTMENTAL PORTAL
BY
MANSUR SALISU MUHAMMAD
(1710308062)

DEPARMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY GUSAU

APRIL, 2023
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Title Page
 Table of Contents
 Background of the Study
 Statement of the Problem
 Aims and Objectives of the Study
 Literature Review
 Research Methodology
 Conclusion
 References
 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The role of education as an instrument for promoting the socio-economic, political and cultural development
of any nation can never be over-emphasized. According to Abdulkareem (2001), a nation’s growth and
development is determined by its human resources. The provision of the much-needed manpower to
accelerate the growth and development of the economy has been said to be the main relevance of university
education in Nigeria (Ibukun, 1997).

The colonial education which was inherited by Nigeria was criticized for being too theoretical to be able to
make meaningful impact on the life of Nigerians (Akinlua, 2007). Subjects taught in schools reflected the
taste of the colonial education officials; hence school curricula were built around the existing colonial
values. Students were supposed to mimic their teachers in subject like English Language which involved
demonstration of competency. The same problem which informed dependency on past colonial education
relics seems to have continued till date. Woolman (2001: 41) was forced to comment on issue of this sort in
his remark about African education. According to him, “African school systems today still follow the rigid
structure of time periods and grade-level progression found in Western education.”
 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Today in the department, student details are entered manually. The student details in
separate records are tedious task. Referring to all these records and updating is
needed. There is a chance for more manual errors. The presence of so many hands
on computing the students information gives room for errors, but the fewer the
hands involved the less the errors encountered.
 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The Aim of this project is to create a system whereby common educational challenge can be tackled
without much stress from the students or staffs.
Objectives of the project include:
• Creating a system whereby students can copy and submit their assignments online.
• Gets information about their academic history without necessary going through the course lecture.
• Keep records of all Students in all levels.
• Generates quick Result of each and every student.
• The system can allow the administrator to select the unnecessary information and delete them
from the database.
• Administrators have total control on Site; he can delete or edit information.
• Provide the facility like send mail for recover password.
• Upload course details.
 LITERATURE REVIEW

In this computer age, information and management system is very common in

Schools. The Appropriate use of these systems helps to reduce the workload and
increase the work efficiency. The aim of this literature is to review the existing
system which is commonly used in other School, and also understand the
technology issues of this project case.
 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methodology is a systematic way to solve a problem. According to Ranjit (2005), research
methodology is defined as the step-by-step analysis of the principles of methods, rules and postulates
employed by a discipline or the development of methods to be applied within a discipline or a
particular procedure.
Henning (2004:36) describes methodology as coherent group of methods that complement one another
and that have the ability to fit to deliver data and findings that will reflect the research question and
suit the researcher purpose. It is a science of studying how research is to be carried out. Essentially, the
procedures by which researchers go about their work of describing, explaining and predicting
phenomena are called research methodology. It is also defined as the study of methods by which
knowledge is gained. Its aim is to give the work plan of research.
• This is concern with the set of methods and principles used to carry out this project work
successfully. It deals with techniques applied in data analysis and design. Examples of Research
Methodologies include:
• YSM (Yourdon Systems Method).
• AIM (Application Implementation Method)
• OMT (Object Modelling Techniques)
 METHODOLOGY/PARADIGM
The programming paradigm used in this project is the procedural
programming paradigm. The procedural paradigm is where program
code is divided up into procedures. Procedures, also called functions,
contain a series of computational steps to carried out in the order is that
specified.
 REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION
The software required for the development of the project are:

 Sublime or VS Code Integrated Development Environment

 HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Bootstrap for the frontend development

 MySQL for the database to generate tables

 XAMPP server and a web browser.

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

• The front end of the web application was developed using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and JavaScript.

• The database was created using MySQL to help retrieve the truth tables of logic operators.
 SYSTEM DESIGN
The proposed system is intended to provide the facility of automating the administrative tasks
such as student grade and information management, creating a general database for the safe
keeping of the departmental informations among others. This system will be a web server
system, meaning that all the transactions would be carried out through the help of the internet
the entire database used would be an online database. People who would access the system
would include the administrator who is in charge of maintaining the system, the lecturers or
staffs and most importantly the students at all levels. The administrative office of the
department is responsible for managing details on the system including course, lecturers and
students information.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
DATA FLOW DIAGRAM
 CONCLUSION

The implementation of Departmental portal has been successfully created and the
web interfaces have been successfully designed. The system designer has
successfully achieved all the planned objectives. The administrators are expected to
maintain the reliability and accuracy of database while inserting, editing and
deleting of each student’s registration entries. The implementation of the system
would help tackle some of the problems associated with manual systems for keeping
of information as well as minimize processing time and accessing time of data.
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