THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR EXAMS AND RECORDS OF ABIA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), AROCHUKWU.

Abstract

Abia state college of Education (Technical) has Exams and Records unit which operates manually. This has brought untold hardship to both the staff and students of the college. Recalled that this unit is where results of students are stored. Some of the results stored in this unit since inception cannot be seen or retrieved due to tears and wears. Sometimes students have to retake a paper they have taken because of improper filing or non-availability of their result. Even the staff of the unit finds it difficult to search or locate some of the results. This research is aimed at the Developing of a Computer Software System for Database Management System for Exams and Records ofAbia State College .This research work adopted both primary and secondary methods for gathering data through questionnaire, personal interview with some staff of the institution as well as journals, books and online articles on Database Management System for Exams and Records Unit of the College. Unified Modelling Language was used for the design of the proposed system. The Tools for system was developed using Visual Basic Studio 2015 with other tools such as Standard Development Kit (SDK) for Visual Basic DotNet Framework, Crystal Report, VB.net as programming language and SQLiteRelational database for data storage. The Result: After the proposed system has been tested and evaluated, it showed that the system helped to accept results of different levels, store them, update and answer queries from the Administrator.