Examination management system

Abstract

The project is a proposed examination management system (EMS) for National Institute of business Management (NIBM), Sri Lanka, which is an higher educational institutes under the under the Ministry of youth affairs and skills development. It conducts Information Technology (IT) and management oriented courses from foundation level to higher diploma level. Current Examination Process (EP) of the NIBM is running manually and EMS waste time of students, lecturers, and examination staff and make mistakes unreasonably. The present paper outlines a proposed online Examination Management System in order to improve the current EP ofthe NIBM. Through the study of Questioner Survey, it has been identified the six major areas to be developed in the NIBM EMS as exam scheduling, exam registration, exam result view, exam awardees selection, exam transcript generation and exam result analysis. Technology is very important to developing the proposed system. Mainly four types of technologies have been used to address the solution, such that PHP as the programming technology, MYSQL as database management technology, SMS, e-Mail as communication technologies and HTML, CSS as interface design technology. Development of the solution is based on waterfall approach following main steps of requirement gathering, system design, system development and testing. proposed solution consists of three users as Student, lecturer and examination staff and six main modules to generate the examination schedule, helps students to online register for repeat examinations, to view the examination results ofthe students easily, to select the awardees of each batch in different courses, to request their transcript online using exam transcript and to analyze the examination results in different views on exam result analysis module. Implementations of the solution needs different requirements as Client computer, server computer, PHP, MYSQL, Mobile Phone, Database, web browser, etc. In the evaluation of the proposed software conducted unit test to check the accuracy of each code segments, system test to test the whole system and user accept testing to test the user satisfaction. The appraisal of the whole EMS software with reference to my aims and objectives is a better solution as a cost and time effective EMS, shall be used in future examinations in NIBM.