Implementing a Departmental Activity Information System for Tertiary Institutions in Developing Countries
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There are
several activities that take place in
academic department
of a higher institution.
Report
s
from these activities
influence
the decisions affect
ing
the
running
of the department.
These decisions
ensure that the university is still in line with its vision and goals.
In some institutions, particularly the
public institutions
in developing countries
, there is the
lack of proper records for activities within an
academic department such as participation of staff and students in
competitions, excursions,
conferences, internship programs, etc.
There is also the unavailability of sufficient
data
of graduated
students within the department to aid decision making
for
providing reference and recommendation
information
.
The objective of this study is to develop a Web
-
ba
sed Departmental Activity Information
System
(DAIS)
for
academic departments of a university
.
The tools used for the implementation of this
system are
Hypertext Mark
-
up Language (
HTML
)
,
Cascading Style sheet 3 (CSS 3
)
and Bootstrap
Framework as user interf
ace, PHP as server side programming language
and
MySQL as the
database.
The system will aid
academic departments and units in decision making process
Keywords
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science