School Student Management System Project

Abstract

In recent years Zambia has seen a steady increase of ICTs in educational institutions. Most schools that are equipped, utilize second-hand or refurbished computers. The integration of ICTs in learning and teaching practice has been limited, although the introduction of computer studies as a school study subject has begun to change the way in which we value ICTs in educational institutions. The main purpose of the Strategy for Information and Communication Technology Implementation in Education is to provide the prospects and trends of integrating information and communication technology (ICT) into the general educational activities. One such activity is the reporting of Students’ progress and achievements. Most schools in Zambia still use the manual system of reporting Students’ progress that involves printing out of report cards to be issued at the end of every school term. This has proven to be a challenge for busy parents that are unable to collect their children’s results during open day. It is for this reason that the Students’ School Result Management System has been development. The system has been implemented using the waterfall methodology, PHP was used for programming and MySQL was used as the database server.