| dc.description.abstract | The current procedure followed at University of St. Joseph - Mbarara in application process,
progress, scheduling and monitoring is completely paper based i.e a hard copy form which is
issued to each applicant/student. This form is offered to the applicant after he has paid and
brought the bank slip to the account’s office. The application form consisting of general
information such as Bio data, Address, current academic qualifications, (O’ level and A’ level
information and other qualifications. And after the student must attach the photocopies of
Original academic documents and birth certificate. To solve the above problem the researcher
developed an online application portal that enables students to apply for the course of their
choice where ever they are and the AR can view the application form and verify the payment
receipts where ever he is.
The systems development methodology used was software prototyping methodology which
helped to achieve the research objectives by using valid and reliable data collection techniques
that is questionnaire, interview guide and personal observation. Quantitative data was analysed
statistically that is using bar graphs whereas the qualitative data was analysed descriptively.
System designing was achieved by employing various tools such as MySQL workbench, visual
paradigm and MS word, the system was developed using various programming and scripting
languages such as PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, bootstrap and sublime text as the text
editor whereas system testing was done using various tools that is unit testing and acceptance
testing as discussed. | en_US |
