Software Implementation of Campus Online Help Desk Information System

PRELIMINARY PAGES

• Title page
• Approval page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgement
• Table of Contents
• Abstract

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Background of Study
• 1.3 Statement of Problem
• 1.4 Aim and Objectives of the Study
• 1.5 Significance of Study
• 1.6 Scope of Study
• 1.7 Limitations of the Study
• 1.8 Definition of Terms

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Conceptual Review of Student-customer Service
• 2.2.1 Instant Feedback
• 2.3 Theoretical Review of Related Literatures
• 2.3.1 Knowledge and Awareness of Student-customers
• 2.3.2 Retrieval of Student-customers’ Information
• 2.3.3 Student-customer Information Management
• 2.3.4 Measurement of Student-customer Service Levels
• 2.3.5 Student-customer Feedback and Contact Programmes
• 2.3.6 Student-customer Loyalty Schemes
• 2.3.7 Use Student-customer Care to Increase Sales
• 2.3.8 Handling and Treatment of Student-customer Complaints
• 2.4 The Need for a Database Management System
• 2.5 Concept of Student-customers Registration
• 2.5.1 Online Student-customers’ Registration
• 2.5.2 Usage of Online Registration Forms
• 2.6 Help Desk Information System Web Portal
• 2.6.1 Types of Help Desk Information System Web Portals
• 2.7 Database for Help Desk Information System Web Portals
• 2.7.1 Merits of Integrating Databases in Web Applications

CHAPTER THREE

SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

• 3.1 Methodology Adopted
• 3.1.1 Problem Identification Using SSADM
• 3.2 Analysis of the Existing System
• 3.2.1 Dataflow of the Existing System
• 3.2.2 Disadvantages Of The Existing System
• 3.2.3 Weakness of the existing System
• 3.3 Feasibility Study
• 3.3.1 Economic Feasibility
• 3.3.2 Technical Feasibility
• 3.3.3 Operational Feasibility
• 3.4 Analysis of the Proposed System
• 3.4.1 Data Flow Diagram of the Proposed System
• 3.4.2 Advantages of the Proposed System
• 3.4.3 Justification of the Proposed System
• 3.5 Functional Requirements
• 3.5.1 Use Case Diagram Of The Admin / User Privileges
• 3.6 Data Requirements
• 3.7 High Level Model of the Proposed System

CHAPTER FOUR

SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

• 4.1 Objectives of the Design
• 4.2 Cohesion and Decomposition High level Model
• 4.3 Control Center / Overall Dataflow Diagram
• 4.3.1 Proposed System Operation Flowchart
• 4.4 System Specification and Design
• 4.4.1 Input and Output Specification
• 4.4.2 Database Specification and Design
• 4.4.3 Data Dictionary
• 4.5 Choice and Justification of Programming Language
• 4.6 Program Documentation
• 4.7 Implementation Techniques
• 4.8 Programming Module Specification
• 4.8.1 Installation
• 4.8.2 Security Design Specification
• 4.8.3 System Architecture
• 4.9 Computer Hardware Minimum Requirement
• 4.10 Software Requirement
• 4.11 Personnel / User Training

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Summary
• 5.3 Conclusion
• 5.4 Recommendation

REFERENCES

APPENDIX A - “SOURCE CODE”

APPENDIX B - “OBJECT PROGRAM”

1.1 Introduction

Online Campus help desks and service desks need to quickly, and accurately, respond to a seemingly constant stream of end-user and business-process-affecting IT issues. The complexity of modern organization and the need to make continual cost savings, also means that help desk effectiveness and efficiency rests heavily on using fit-for-purpose help desk software to support help desk staff and their IT service management (ITSM) processes. The help desk software ensures that all issues are ticketed and monitored such that tickets are never left unattended (with delays and service level breaches), forgotten, or lost. Student-customer Help desk software facilitates this through prioritization, categorization, automated routing, service level management, and escalation capabilities.

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, Limitation of the study and Definition of technical terms.

1.2 Background of Study

Student-customer care is a crucial element of tertiary institution success. Every time an individual have contact with their Student-customers an individual have an opportunity to improve their reputation with them and increase the likelihood of further sales. From your telephone manner to the efficiency of their order-fulfillment systems, almost every aspect of business affects the way your Student-customers view their business. There are also specific programmes an individual can put in place to increase their level of Student-customer care. This guide outlines what Student-customer care involves. It explains how an individual can use Student-customer contact, feedback and loyalty schemes to retain existing Student-customers, increase their sales to them and even win new Student-customers. It also covers how to prepare for receiving a Student-customer complaint.

Student-customer care involves putting systems in place to maximize your Student-customers’ satisfaction with their business. It should be a prime consideration for every business, sales and profitability depends on keeping their Student-customers happy. Student-customer care is more directly important in some roles than others. For receptionists, sales staff and other employees in Student-customer-facing roles, Student-customer care should be a core element of their job description and training, and a core criterion when an individual is recruiting.

The challenges encountered that led to the execution of the research work is that, the difficulties people face in transferring information/data, unwillingness attitude of some Federal Cooperative College Staff when checking their Student-customers’ information, fragile nature of Student-customers’ information and important nature of Student-customers’ information in the business world. The need arise for the development of an online help desk to alleviate these problems. Campus Online Student-customer service may be provided by a person or by automated means called self-service. Examples of self service are Internet sites. However, In the Internet era, a challenge has been to maintain and/or enhance the personal experience while making use of the efficiencies of online commerce.

1.3 Statement of Problem

Investigation revealed that challenges of the existing Campus Online Help Desk Information System which is stated as follows:

1. Unwillingness attitude of some Federal Cooperative College Staff when checking their Student-customers’ information.
2. Difficulties people encountered when checking their Student-customers information.
3. Fragile nature of Student-customers’ information.
4. Time wasted in manual processing of Student-customers’ information.
5. Important nature of Student-customers’ information in the business world. The need arise for the development of an online help desk to alleviate these problems.

1.4 Aim and Objectives of the Study

The aim of the study is to design and implement a Campus Online Help Desk Information System using Federal Cooperative College as a case study. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows to develop an application software that will:

1. Maintain an efficient system of collection, sorting and delivery of Student-customers’ information.
2. Promote, and provide adequate and efficiently Campus Online Help Desk Information System
3. Save the time wasted with manual method of checking Student-customers’ information.
4. Demonstrate increased motivation to the Federal Cooperative College workers.
5. Replace the manual method of documenting campus desk information and the error involved in checking Student-customers’ information.

1.5 Significance of Study

The study offers numerous benefits to the Federal Cooperative College and to any organization that deals on Student-customers’ information. Manual method of checking Student-customers’ information will no longer be there again because it will be done by the computer with the help of the computerized CAMPUS ONLINE HELP DESK. Because of the easy to use nature of the CAMPUS ONLINE HELP DESK, any organization can easily buy it to make use of them.

This study will be of immense benefit to other researchers who intend to know more on this study and can also be used by non-researchers to build more on their research work. This study contributes to knowledge and could serve as a guide for other study.

1.6 Scope of Study

The scope of the research is focused on the Design and Implementation of Campus Online Help Desk Information System using Federal Cooperative College, Kaduna as a case study.

1.7 Limitations of the Study

During the course of this study, many things militated against its completion, some of which are:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Research material: availability of research material is a major setback to the scope of the study.
4. Frequent power failure: This made the researcher append more money on fuel to ensure sustainable power.
5. Financial Constraint: Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet).

1.8 Definition of Terms

Business: Is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods, services, or both to consumers or tertiary business in exchange for money.

Computer: A computer is a programmable machine that receives input, stores and manipulates data, and provides output in a useful format.

Student-customer: A Student-customer (also known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is usually used to refer to a current or potential buyer or user of the products of an individual or organization, called the supplier, seller, or vendor.

Database: A database is a system intended to organize, store, and retrieve large amounts of data easily.

Report: Reports are often used to display the result of an experiment, investigation, or inquiry.

Order: Confirmed request by one party to another to buy, sell, deliver, or receive goods or services under specified terms and conditions.

Staff: A set of people, such as the employees or volunteers, within an organization

Registration: This means to keep records received from the management for reference purposes.

Management: It is the co-ordination of all the resources of an Organization through the process of planning, Organization, directing and controlling

Account Details - For USSD / POS Transfer

Account Name: Sparklyn Services Account No: 1222599051 Account Type: Current Bank Name: Zenith Bank PLC

Proposal Writing Format under Computer Science

Design and Implementation of Campus Online Help Desk Information System is a proposal topic for final year research work, which comprises the major and elective project proposal writing sections for Design and Implementation of Campus Online Help Desk Information System research work.

Major Sections

• Motivation for Embarking on the Project

• Brief Background of Study

• Statement of Problems

• Aim of the Study

• Specific Objectives of the Study

• Significance of the Study (Who benefits from the project and how?)

Elective Sections

• Methodology and Reason for Using It (such as; models, SSADM, or OOADM)

• Tools (programming languages and software used)