ABSTRACT
Forgery has long crept into our educational system and, counterfeit and forged certificate and document have upper hand in various certificate and degrees awarding institution. Invalid studentship has become greater than valid studentship. The need for student verification system has become necessary to check mate and expunge invalid studentship, invalid document and invalid certificate yielding to authenticity of certificate and documents. This research work DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED STUDENT VERIFCATION SYSTEM FOR DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY (DELSU
E-VERIFY). The proposed model is concerned with monitoring the studentship of students, keeping students basic academic record, tracking students if there is malpractice of any kind and, verifying every certificate of Delta State University in the future.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLEPAGES i &ii
TABLEOFCONTENTS vii-ix
CHAPTER ONE– Introduction 1
- Backgroundofstudy 2
- Objectivesofstudy 4
- Scope ofthestudy 5
- Limitation ofthestudy 6
- Methodology 6
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CHAPTER TWO –LiteratureReview 11
CHAPTER THREE – System Analysisand Design 29
- Introduction 29
- System analysis ofthesystem 29
- Constraints of theexistingsystem 31
- Proposed systemdesign 33
- Technology, tools and programminglanguageused 45
CHAPTER FOUR – Designand Implementation 48
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- Systemdesign 48
- Systemdescription 49
- Systemimplementation 52
- Hardwarerequirement 53
- Softwarerequirement 53
- Systemtesting 54
- System reviewand maintenance 54
- Installationprocedure 55
- Userguide 55
CHAPTER FIVE – Summaryand Conclusion 57
| 5.1 Summary | 57 | |
| 5.2 Recommendation | 58 | |
| 5.3 Conclusion | 58 | |
| REFERENCE | 60 | |
| APPENDIX (SOURCE CODES) |
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LIST OF FIGURES
| 1.1 | The SSADM Approach. | 8 |
| 1.2 | The RAD Model. | 9 |
| 2.1 | Credit/Debit Card – front and back view | 28 |
| 3.1 | Input form to add Administrator | 40 |
| 3.2 | The main interface form | 41 |
| 3.3a | Verification Form | 42 |
| 3.3b | The Verification Result form | 43 |
| 3.4 | System’s database table for Admin | 45 |
| 4.1 | Use Case diagram for SVS | 51 |
LIST OF TABLES
- Address Verification Service –thetypes 13
- Address Verification Service –detaildescription 17
3.1 CompanyTable 44
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
A system, with numerous definitions can be literally seen in a computer way as a collection of the hardware and software components of a computer.
According to Stella C. Chiemeke and Franca A. Egbokdara (2006), a system is set of components that interact to achieve a common goal. In another sense, a system is a group of interrelated or intersecting elements forming a unified whole.
A verification system as in this project is an application program used to verify that someone or something rightly and legally belongs to a collection, an organization or an individual. There are different verification system, notably address verification system, adult verification system and card verification system to mention but a few.
Student verification system is used to know whether or not a studentis
orwasalegalandrightlyregisteredstudent.Inthiscontext,itisusedto
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verify that a student belongs/belonged to an institution and to confirm that he/she is properly registered in a particular department running any of the institutions programme.
This student verification system (SVS), also known as DELSU e- Verify is a window based system. It is an electronic and computerized means of verifying someone’s claim of studentship to an institution by means of their matriculation number (Mat No) being input, hence using an output clearly showing the truth or false of his/her claim.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THESTUDY
In this modern age, computers have verified the cause of their existence. The advent of computers in our society caused a lot of criticism on the danger it poses on the society. Critics of computer and new techniques express their fear on how computers will displace and replace all human skills thus resulting to mass unemployment. The presence of computeronvirtuallyeveryfieldoftoday’sfastlifehasprovedthecritic
wrongastheinventionofcomputersandnewtechnologiescontinuesto
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create additional jobs for those who identify themselves with computers and new technologies. This make computes partner to human beings in any fields of humanendeavour.
Over the past decades, students identification and verification has been a major problem in large institutions as documents, certificate and studentship can be forged at a great rate and easy way, using the computer negatively. Forgers fail to know that in this fast moving world, the computer has equally served as an aid to decision making, verification and authentication.
This is because of computers efficiency in terms of speed, accuracy, reliability, cost and security among others.
In recent years, awareness has existed and created in people as it concerned the use of computer in verifying, authenticating and security activities either through web-based (internet) or window-based. Decision support system (DSS) and others system like management information
system (MIS) and information system (IS) are used in organization.
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Decisions are largely based on experience and principle. The value of every degree is the reputation of the institution and the students produced, hence, the greatest obstacle to any academic institution which is dishonesty and forgery has to be balanced with verification and authentication systems and processes. “In recent times, effort are bring made to build intelligence into computer system, whereby the computer can be used to process large volume of structural and unstructured information for decision making”. Said Uzoka,1998.
1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THESTUDY
- The importance of authentic document and certificate can not be overemphasized as the reputations of institution are affected in every counterfeit or forged document orcertificate.
- To design and implement student verification system for Delta State University. The systemwill
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- Prove the authenticity of document and certificate belonging to Delta State University thereby expunging forged and counterfeit certificate and document fromcirculation.
- Show the valid and legally registered student of Delta State University.
- Prove its supremacy over the existing manual system of verification and identification by using dummydata.
- To highlight the importance of verifying and authenticating document andcertificates.
1.3 SCOPE OF THESTUDY
The scope and focus of this study is on students’ identification, verification and authentication of document and degrees (certificate) and monitoring of students via the keep of their basic academic information and bio data. Importantly, the student must be students of Delta State University or was a student of Delta State University.
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1.4 LIMITATION OF THESTUDY
This study is limited to information gathered from the review of literature and the data collection method used. The proposed system is designed on
.NET frame work. Others limitations to the study include:
- The implementation and usefulness of the system by Delta State University and other education might not beaccepted.
- In availability of the system on the internet, thought others user apart from the administrator can use it with some abstraction upon the purchase of the software and installation therein.
- Restricted access to some vital and important data andinformation.
1.5 METHODOLOGY
Software methodology is the set of rules and practices used to create computer software. It is composed of any one of the software development models used together with at least a techniques thus,
METHODOLOGY = SOFTWARE MODEL + TECHNIQUES(S)
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An in-depth literature review is done using document review and the internet.
The proposed design will be implemented using MS Visual Studio 2008 tools and Visual Basic as the programming language and MS SQL server 2005 for the database.
The methodology to be adopted for this project is the SSADM (Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology). The SSADM emphasizes on the completing a phase of the software development before proceeding to the next phase and also being able to go back to the other phases in a purely sequential manner. The model used for this project is the RAD (Rapid Application Development model proposed by IBM (International Business Machine) in 1980 and introduced to software community by James Martins through his book Rapid Application Development).
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Fig. 1.1 THE SSADM APPROACH
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Fig. 1.2 THE RAD MODEL
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SSADM and RAD takes a modular approach to this student’s verification system using a best practice guide to ensure the successful implementation of the parts of this project sequentially. The design and testing of the system’s relational database management system (RDBMS) is to confirm the design specification. Therefore the window based graphical user face (GUI) will be integrated to input data into the system’s database. This project starts small and break down the implementation process into modules that are attainable based on the adopted requirement and analysis methodology.
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