1.1 Introduction
Certification as the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization, this confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit accreditation is a specific organization’s process of certification (Wikipedia, 2021).
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.
1.2 Background of the Study
Computerized Students Certificate Management System is an application which is generally small or medium in size. It is used by school management to create and manage the student certificates number using a computerized system where the school can create certificates for the Student, Print certificates for students and more importantly verify a certificate of any student. With this computerized system there will be no hassle and stress to verify any certificate. If the user is registrar, the user is able to create and maintain all the certificates of students. All these modules are able to help the Registrar to manage all the student certificates with more convenience and in a more efficient way and it also help in verification of student certificates in an easy and stress-free way.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
Investigation revealed the problems found during verification of a student certificate was so much that there were cases of employers spending lot of money in order to verify the authenticity of a certificate presented to them during job interviews.
Lack of effectiveness in their methods of keeping certificates record, further compounds the problem.
1.4 Aim and Objectives of the Study
The aim of the study is to design and implement a Computerized Students Certificate Management System. In achieving this aim, the following objectives were set out as follows:
- To resolve the issue of manual verification of certificates;
- To enable the registrar to automatically generate unique certificate code for each certificate added;
- To easily confirm the authenticity of any certificate by students and any employer; and
- To provide a login page where the registrar can have access to register and generate certificate for students.
1.5 Significance of the Study
The significance of this study was to help and give a benefit to the student, staff, school management and anyone that wants to verify the authenticity of any certificate from the school. The Verification system would improve the monitoring capacities of those who maintain the system. Furthermore, the registrar would be much guided when it comes to adding and generating the certificates of the student, letting them print it promptly and accordingly.
Besides, the study will serve as reference material for subsequent researcher in the field or related topics.
1.6 Scope of the Study
This research work will concentrate on Registration, Adding of certificates, Student management, View of all students due to receive certificates, printing certificates. The system also includes handling of some queries like viewing all the student information via S/N, Name of Student, Faculty, department, certificate code and as the case may be. The writer uses MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS and bootstrap. It is a case Springlight University.
1.7 Limitations of the Study
During the course of this study, many things militated against its completion, some of which are:
- Time Constraint: The time frame given to accomplish this project was very short due to school academic calendar and it was carried out under pressure which made the researcher not to implement some necessary features.
- Establishment Policies: Establishment policies posed a serious limitation as most staffs are not ready to release information needed for this project work. There were lots of information needed from the staffs of this institution to enhance the study which took them time to release or they did not release at all for security purposes, hence the scope was reduced.
- Research material: availability of research material is a major setback to the scope of the study.
- Frequent power failure: This made the researcher append more money on fuel to ensure sustainable power.
1.8 Definition of Terms
Registration: This means to keep records received from the management for reference purposes.
Certificate Number (Code): An Assign Numeric data added to each certificate to uniquely identify each certificate.
Management: It is the co-ordination of all the resources of an Organization through the process of planning, Organization, directing and controlling.
