ABSTRACT
The growing number of students in higher
institutions poses a lot of accommodation problems for students and School Management. Some of these
problems include, few hostel not properly managed, Statistics of rooms required
to match the growing number of student are farfetched. Also hostel
administrators cannot give accurate information of the occupancy of a
particular room. In View of all these, the solution proffered by this project
is to have an automated hostel allocation system that not only gives student
the opportunity to select their hostel of choice, but also provides the hostel
administrators necessary functionalities to adequately manage the accommodation
process in the school. To be able to achieve this, proper research was done on
the already existing solution in the school, which is manual, and also on
automated solutions deployed in other institutions like the University of
Nigeria Nsukka. It was realized that for such a system to work effectively
there will be need for certain functionalities to be implemented. First, there
should be avenue to add new hostel, block, room or bunk space. Second, the
system should be able to be fed with the records of students that have duly
paid their school fees. Third, students who have been uploaded should be able
to get hostel on visiting the system. And lastly, the hostel administrators
should be able to download records showing the status of the hostels indicating
those that have been occupied and those that have not. Putting all these in
consideration the system was designed using the V-Model OOAD methodology and
implemented as a web based solution, for ease of access, with web forms using
Microsoft ASP.NET C# and SQL Server as the database backend.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Title
Page
Abstract
Table
of Contents
List
of Figures
List
of Tables
Chapter
1: Introduction
1.0
Back ground of study
1.1 Statement of the problem
1.2 Objectives
1.3 Significance of the Project
Chapter
2: Literature review
1.0 Introduction
2.1 Theoretical
Background
2.2 Review
of Related Literature
2.3 Summary
Chapter
3: System Analysis and Design
2.0 Introduction
3.1 Methodology
3.2 Describe
the existing system
3.3 Analysis
of the proposed system
3.4 Design
of the proposed system
Chapter 4: System Implementation
4.0
Introduction
4.1 Choice of development Environment
4.2 Implementation Architecture
4.3 Software Testing
4.4 Documentation
4.4.1 User Manual
4.4.2 Source code listing
Chapter
5: Summary and Conclusion
5.0 Summary
5.1 Conclusion
5.2 Recommendations
REFERENCE
APPENDIX
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0
BACKGROUND
OF STUDY
Computer
as indispensible tools in the total life of human endeavor has gained
precedence in the world especially in the development growth of the Nigeria
society. Computers are super machines
that convert physical/mental effort into a mere easy life. The use of computer
in our everyday life cannot be over emphasized. This is because of the gradual
increase in human population and complexity of life, which has equally brought
about increase in volumes of data being generated every day.
The
gradual increase in human population has equally affected the education sector.
Thus higher institutions in the country today are currently faced with the
challenges of hostels/halls allocation to students. The fact remain that the
number of students usually out numbers the available accommodation.
It is safe to say that
most activities such as hostel allocation that are carried out in most
universities in Nigeria are done manually. Therefore, there is a lot of strain
on the individuals running the hostel allocation. An E-hostel system is simply
software developed for managing most activities that take place in the hostels
with the help of a hostel administrator [1].
The goal of this research
work is to provide a solution to the problem of hostel management, by designing
a computerized system which is user-friendly and GUI-oriented that will be
compatible with the existing manual system. The system will solve the problem
of hostel management; thus helping to reduce problems associated with the
manual hostel management system. The system can only be accessed by students
who have paid school fees for the current semester. The project uses Godfrey Okoye University
thinker’s corner Enugu as case study.
1.1
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Students
at the beginning of each session waste half of the semester looking for
accommodation.
1. The
few hostels that exist in the universities are not properly managed, since they are using
manual system, which is paper-based. The possibility of losing the data is very
high, Lots of paper are required to store all the information, data could be
misplaced due to human error or in the event of a break in, data could be
stolen very easily;
2. It usually takes time to
retrieve data or information that has been stored, because the workers need to
find the actual folder where the data was stored previously.
3. Most often students pay for
hostel fee and end up not getting one due to lack of bed spaces when there are
enough space.
4. Hostel
administrators cannot give accurate information of the occupancy of a
particular room.
These
and many more form the statement of the problem that necessitated this research
work.
1.2
OBJECTIVES
OF THE STUDY
The
project is designed to help in the management of hostel allocation in the University. The main objective of the
system includes:
1)
To
create and develop a central database system that will contain information on
all the available rooms in the hostel.
2)
To add
new existing hostels and rooms to the system.
3)
To
print out the evidence of hostel space being allocated to a student.
4)
To generate
reports on hostel occupancy.
5)
To ensure
that any registered and eligible students are allocated into hostel.
1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT
The
new system designed for computer driven student’s hostel allocation will among
other things:
1.
The
system will enable the students get their hostel room before the lectures will
commence every semester.
2.
The
system helps to know the particular student occupying bunk space each semester.
3.
The
system will enable to improve in the condition of how the hostel is being
managed.
4.
It
gives the actual number of the students in the hostel statistically.
5.
Store all student information and enables the management team
to retrieve back the information that have been stored and to maintain all
activities in managing a hostel.
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