ABSTRACT
This work was produced out of the necessity to address the inherent problems that spring up during admission of students in the institution this effort is geared towards assisting the necessary bodies to verity students within a given time. It also addresses the issue of time wasting in admission/verification of students.
It is also designed for easy associability to all and sundry.
The software of this project when run, prompts the user to enter the name, his personal data,WAEC result, prelim result and then the department for which he or she is to be admitted. The computer will verify and inform you if the student in question is qualified to be admitted or not.
Also, the software of this project contains storage facilities as well deletion of out dated/obsolete information. It should be noted that this project if utilized reduces considerably the volume of files to be carried in the office as tedious of work will be reduced. .
TABLE CONTENTS
Abstract
Table of content
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
Statement of the problems
Purpose of Study
Aims and Objective
Scope and Delimitations
Limitation
Assumptions
Definition of Terms
CHAPTER TWO
Literature review
CHAPTER THREE
Description of existing system
Facts finding method
Organizational structure
Objective of existing system
Input output, process analysis
Problems of existing system
Justification for the new system
CHAPTER FOUR
Design of the new system
Output Format
Input Format
File Design
Procedure Chart
System requirements
CHAPTER FIVE
Implementation
Program design
Program flow chart
Data addition
Data Display
Test run
CHAPTER SIX
Documentation
CHAPTER SEVEN
Conclusion and Recommendation
References
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Globally, most of the institutions and organizations rely on use traditional paper verification methods to verify the documents presented to them. These organizations and institution do not have the capacity to verify the document presented to them instantly. One of the problems we have in traditional paper based is that people and especially recruiters and employers find difficult in knowing the validity of documents such as academic certificates presented to them because there is no way they can authenticate those documents instantly. In the current scenario most of the organization does not have the capacity to instantly authenticate the documents presented.Traditional identity information verification and validation processes were developed in a “paper” transaction world.
This Paper is centered on the need to adopt automatic online verification system that will save the huddles of manual verification method. This will enable anybody or an employer to verify an institution certificate online, without having to come down to the school to do so. All that is required of the employer is to log into the verification link given, which is a link to the university portal and enter the certificate number of the certificate he/she wants to verify, then the original copy of that certificate will be displayed on the screen along with the following message (assuming the name of the certificate owner is “NjoeteniOrikeze”), “NjoeteniOrikeze is a graduate of Computer Engineering Department, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, he graduated in the year 2015. Please carefully compare the certificate you have there with the one on your screen any alteration renders that certificate invalid”. But if the certificate number is invalid (i.e a forged certificate number), the following message will be displayed on the screen “Invalid Certificate, we don’t have details of this person in our record, it is either you missed typed the certificate number or the owner did not pass through this institution, Verify and try again, please if the problem persists contact the school +2348000000000, admin@university.edu.ng”
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Verification of certificates is a major concern in organization, academic institutions, recruiters and employers. Employers have been experiencing has high alarming rate of fake certificates. This is as result production of fake certificates. Firstly, the traditional paper-based prototype of verification contributes in production of fake certificates which poses a difficult in knowing the validity of suchacademic certificates presented to them because there is no way they can authenticate them instantly. Secondly, modern technology and the rise of the internet have undoubtedly contributed to the wide-spread trend of educational fraud and fake degrees, accuracy and convenient.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The main objective of this study to design and implement certificate verification system which verifies a certificate against the certificates produced by the school. This method will phase out outdated paper/manual method, though the papers will still be kept safe in schools for future reference.
Other objectives include:
· To make Certificate accessibility Easy
· To save time and Resources
· To prevent risk in transits in result verification, etc.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study will concentrate on the development of a prototype for academic certificates verifications. The product/Output is a software product called vericert. Vericert is a system for verifying academic certificates. It is available for anyone or any organization that wishes to establish the veracity of academic documents presented to them by any candidate seeking a job.
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
This research work will be guided by the following research questions:
1. Which methods are currently used for academic certificate verification?
2. Why proposing a computerized Certificate VerificationSystem for the institution? Is it really important?
3. What method and technology may be used to develop and deploy the academic certificate verification system?
4. How will the proposed computer-based system affect the existing conventional system?
1.6Significance of the study
When the project goes online the following benefit will be realized:-
1. Recruiters and employers receive the benefit because the system gives the opportunity to authenticate the certificates.
2. Help the recruiting agencies in verification academic certificates held by an individual.
3. Verification Software reduces instances of academic fraud. Improves fraud detection.
1.7 Definitions of important terms
· Grid: Globally distributed units with different operating prototypes and hardware being capable of processing a large amount of data collaboratively.
· Virtualization in computing is a term that refers to the various techniques, methods or approaches of hybrid online creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as a virtual, operating prototype (OS).
· Clusters A computer cluster consists of a set of loosely connected computers that work together so that in many respects they can be viewed as a single prototype.
· Hypervisors: In computing, a hypervisor or virtual machine manager (VMM) is a piece of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.
· A computer cluster consists of a set of loosely connected computers that work together so that in many respects they can be viewed as a single prototype.
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