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1. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................1
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1. INTRODUCTION
Information and communication technology (ICT) is widely used for enabling societies to
produce, access, adapt and apply information in greater quantities and for more varied purposes.
In the recent years Information Technology (IT) has become very impressive in services, this is
due to his extraordinary contribution in the field of management of the information. Indeed, the
According to [1], computer means the automated processing of information by a specific system
machine or abstract. It also includes IT, all the science and technology related to the processing
of information.
According to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in many
countries, education is considered as a key factor of sustainable development [2].Rwanda
continues to be one of the fastest growing African countries among those countries in ICT and
there are several avenues for growth for the ICT sector – from e-commerce and e-services,
mobile technologies, applications development and automation to become a regional center for
the training of top quality ICT professionals and research [3].
Nowadays, services are intended to be improved according to the use of ICT. Therefore,
Clearance is a status granted individuals, typically members of the military, university graduates
and employees of governments and their contractors, allowing them access to classified
information, i.e. state secrets. The term "clearance” is also sometimes used in private
organizations that have a formal process to vet employees for access to sensitive information. A
clearance by itself is normally not sufficient to gain access; the organization must determine that
the cleared individual has a "need to know" the information. No one is supposed to be granted
access to classified information solely because of rank or position, but once a clearance is
obtained, access to certain information or gain of freedom could be granted.
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3. Director of Finance Clearance
6. Registrar
Furthermore, for a graduating student to carry out his/her clearance form from all these
departments it normally takes a lot of time and a lot of processes and delay in clearing the
student for youth service as well as collection of statement of results. Hence, it became
imperative for computer software based online clearance system to eliminate the shortcoming
of the manual system in place.
This project will propose the best solutions based on Information Technology (IT) that may
efficiently resolve the above problems and also illustrate the advantages, and disadvantages of
using such well detailed conceptions in establishing parameters for better system rather than
using the existing system with its inconsistencies and deficiencies.
To design the database application that can store all Clearance system used for the
computational of how clearance are progressing and use the stored information for
making the decision.
To guarantee the security and fairness of the system.
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To alleviate the problems and stress of travelling and queuing up of student during
clearance.
To effectively and efficiently process students clearance.
This project work is to develop a computer software based online clearance system for doing
clearance for graduating students of Catholic University of Rwanda. The software development
will be carried out using PHP-MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, Adobe Dreamweaver, XAMP and
Ozeki to manage both the database and at the same time make the software online.
As we are in the developing University, we want to shift from traditional application to the
computerized system.
This will speed up the development of the University in the field of information
technology and it easy to use.
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registration etc. This helps to overcome the Student Clearance issues between Students
sharing the same borders of the Clearance.
The main objective of this research project is analyzing the current system and come up with a
system that provides the following a solution.
To provide a reliable and transparent system devoid of personal inclination and interest.
Software methodology that can be used in the system that I develop is Waterfall model. To solve
actual problems, software developer or a team of developers must integrate with a development
strategy that includes the process, methods and tools layer and generic phases. This strategy is
often referred to a process model or a software developing paradigm.
My project will follow the waterfall model. The steps of waterfall model are:
Requirement Definition
System and Software Design
Implementation and unit testing
Integration and System Testing
Operation and Maintenance
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Figure 1: waterfall model
During design and implementation of my project, the following software and hardware will be
needed:
Hardware
Software
This project work is to develop a computer software based online clearance system for
doing clearance for graduating students of Catholic University of Rwanda. The software
development will be carried out using PHP-MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, Adobe
Dreamweaver, XAMP and Ozeki to manage both the database and at the same time make
the software online.
In time, the project will be conducted in a period of four months that will start from April,
2015 up to July, 2015
2015
ID TASK NAME
April May June July August September
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1 Preliminary Investigation
2 Problem Analysis
3 Requirements Analysis
4 Decision Analysis
5 Design
6 Construction
7 Implementation