A PROPOSED EXAMINATION RESULT PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR UMARU ALI SHINKAFI POLYTECHNIC, SOKOTO WITH REFERENCE TO WORKFLOW AND APPROACHES USED IN USMAN DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY, SOKOTO

Rilwanu Yusuf Gigane¹, Shehu Sidi Abubakar² and Abubakar Ibrahim³

¹Department of Computer Science, Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto, Nigeria.

²Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto,

³Department of Computer Science, Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto, Nigeria.

Email: rilwangigane@gmail.com, lynkcd@gmail.com, abunbba@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

The need for an improved result processing system for Umaru Ali Shinkafi polytechnic to overcome the problems of delays in releasing the results, missing grades, insecurity and misrepresentation of information among others is of serious demand due to its greater benefit to the institution. The study, therefore, proposed a solution by designing a graphical representation of the proposed model for effective, reliable, consistent, flexible and timely result processing system. The research employed the use of questionnaire which was distributed to 50 respondents of each of the two tertiary institutions in Sokoto state – Nigeria coupled with the literature of the existing result processing systems helped in obtaining the required information for coming up with the proposed design. The information got using the above methods helped in designing the Flowchart, Activity diagrams and Use Cases of an improved model using Microsoft Visio. Conclusively, the research proposed the use of MIS (central database design) and web-based interfaces as a means of addressing the aforementioned problems when implemented.

Keywords: Result-processing, workflow, Uml-diagram, SITs (e-vision), MIS, Requirements specification