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CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.0 Background of the Project

The Examinations Office is responsible for the central administration of the University examinations, both traditional and semesterised. Examination is a written, practical and spoken assessment that schools and colleges organize in order to assess their student’s level of understanding of their subjects. It is currently the most effectively known way the university assesses its students in order to determine the type of grades they obtain which in turn categorizes the students’ status in the university during the school years i.e. either to be promoted to the next level or otherwise. After completing the study, students are categorized based on their performance in the examinations, From the above, it could be seen that Examination is a very important process in the running of a tertiary institution more especially the university. They are a core function of educational institutions and Quality is considered to be very important in Examinations.(Vasupongayya, Noodam, & Kongyong, 2013)

The Examinations office provides centralized services and support to ensure consistent and high-quality conduct of examinations across all campuses of the University, as well the efficient utilization of resources.

The Examinations Section has the following primary functions:

Centrally coordinated timetablingof teaching(in some cases)
Information on transcripts
Preparation of the Academic Administration Calendar
Advice on and charts of the academic year
Preparation of Programme & Unit Catalogues
Student data and statistics, and reports to external bodies (g, NUC)
Exam scheduling and supervision across all BUK campuses.
Exam paper management for central exams, including printing, venue allocation, and prompt delivery to lecturers for marking.
Recruitment and training of casual examination supervisors.
Making alternative exam arrangements for students who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to sit their exams with the main cohort.
Making arrangements for ill students to sit exams off-campus where applicable.
Arranging venues and supervision for exams held by other institutions on our campus.
Providing a central port of call for enquiries from students and staff about examinations matters.

Currently, in almost all educational tertiary institutes, there is no automated or efficient intelligent time table system which is a function of the Examination office. It is a reality that all educational tertiary institutions ranging from small to large ones are using the manual system which is a very difficult, prompt to error and time consuming process. This manual system becomes a hot issue at the start of each new semester for the Examination office and Head of Department. We cannot get historical data to make the job easy and comfortable. Among other fundamental problems of a manual system like lack of correctness, slow speed of the system and problems in sharing of information etc. the key problems usually are:

1) Keeping and managing of record for the previous data.

2) Management of multiple queries for the same subject.

3) Making available interested subjects for a lecturer.

4) Scheduling venues for lectures

5) Availability of sufficient information during the development of time table.

Therefore, to design and develop a time table for educational institutions is not an easy and comfortable job.

1.1 Statement of the Research Problem

All Examination office procedures and processes are usually implemented manually making it a bulky and tiring process, which poses serious problems due to factors such as human error, storage misfiling, and misplacement of files, inaccurate scheduling time table system where courses and lecturer schedules clash, inadequate information delivery methods. These are the problems currently being faced in the Examination Office.

1.2 Aims and Objectives of the Project

The project will majorly seek to design, develop and implement an Examination Office management system that automates all the processes for the examination office of the faculty of Computer Science and Information technology of the university.

The objectives the software wishes to achieve are

To Publish and inform Faculties, Deans, Departments and other Administrative Offices on all examination deadlines, processes and procedures
To Create and Issue lecture timetables and schedules for lecturers and students
To Issue examination timetables in a timely manner, take feedback from Staff and Students, issue timetables to students online, provide one Single helpdesk for examination complains.
To Process appeals and rechecks in a timely manner, ensuring students are notified of outcomes as soon as possible
To Create and issue Examination Invigilation timetables.

1.3 Significance of the Project

This project which seeks to design and develop a software system that can automate the processes in the examination office will be useful in the following ways:

Provide a central point of information to both staff and students of the faculty, making information available in a timely manner
Greatly reduce the amount of work in the examination office, making the whole of the procedures in the examination office easy and flexible.
Greatly reduce errors in the scheduling of examination, lecture and examination invigilation timetables, putting into consideration all the factors previously overlooked in the manual system like clashing of classes for carry over students.
Make the processes in the examination office efficient and fast.

1.4 Scope of the Project

The project will cover the automation of the activities done in the examination office of the faculty of computer science and information technology.

1.5 Research Methodology

This research is based on the problem of automation of the activities in the examination office of FCSIT, which involves a lot of activities foremost among them that of timetabling scheduling. Timetable construction problems are interesting subjects of study because neither modeling nor solving them is easy or straightforward because of the number of constraints involved. It is difficult to make a clear-cut distinction between acceptable and not acceptable timetables (Adekunle 2012). Because of the large diversity in acceptance criteria, realistic timetable construction problems are multidimensional. Each dimension may introduce its own characteristic aspects that add to the complexity of the problem. Therefore, only heuristic solution approaches without known performance guarantees are practically feasible (Robertus , 2002).

As a result of the large data input the timetable generation module of the examination office management system is supposed to handle, a linear method or algorithm cannot be put to use to handle such validation and generation, hence the usage of a heuristic method. The heuristic method to be used in this project is the genetic algorithm. The genetic algorithm is one that seeks to find the most optimal solutions where the search space is great and conventional methods is inefficient.; it works on a basis of the Darwinian evolution theory (Alberto, 1992).

The data (i.e. course data) used in the program are gotten from the Examination Office. The different validation and constraint was as a result of careful observation of the timetable release of the Faculty from past years.

Due to the many processing and constraint validations the genetic algorithm will be performing in the proposed system, a programming tool Php (Hypertext preprocessor) which has over the years proven to be able to optimize programs compilation and C.P.U. usage will be used for the Frontend design and Mysql Database management System will be used for the Backend Design.

1.6 Limitations of the Project.

In carrying out this project work, we were faced with some limitations. Designing a management system is quite a complex task especially with the fact that the word management alone encompasses a lot of functions which the system will aim to meet and also the fact that one is not quite efficient or skillful in the programming language of implementation.

Below are some of the limitations that may hinder the functionalities of the system:

Wrong data input by technical user: the system will only work with data supplied; hence wrong data input might have to be edited manually.
Wrong constraints specification.
Low system memory capacity

1.7 Research Outline

This Project report contains a further four sections. Chapter 2 gives further background information while reviewing in details the workings of existing systems. Chapter 3 discusses the structure, design and internal workings of each module in the project, it also details the tasks required to complete the project, and a timescale to complete them in. Chapter 4 details the backend of the system and shows the development and testing of each stage in the project. Chapter 5 presents my summary, conclusions and recommendations. The final section lists the references used while writing this report

1.8 Definition Of Terms

Academic Planning: Activity carried out by the School or Campus leading to the identification of the staff, space, time and related non-financial resources required to deliver the approved instructional activity.

Academic Space: Includes space in which College-approved instructional activity may be scheduled. Generally this includes classrooms, laptop classrooms, lecture theatres, labs, shops and studios, and in some cases gymnasia, conference rooms, outdoor spaces and adjacent or related spaces used to support instructional activity.

Dedicated Space: An Academic Space that has been assigned to a School or Campus for a specified instructional activity.

Equitable: Fair and just (but not necessarily equal).

Master Timetable: The official product of the Scheduling process.

Room Utilization: The ratio of the audited in-use hours per week for a room divided by the hours per week that the room is available for Scheduling.

Seat Utilization: The ratio of the audited in-use hours per week of the seats in a room divided by the hours per week that the seats are available for Scheduling.

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