Design and Modeling of School Time Table Application System: A Case Study of Kampala International University school of Computer Studies
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2010-06
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Studies not only to safeguard the economic interests in education but also social one to protect students from lot more confusion without a time table. Hence the need to seek to change the society’s negative attitudes towards best attainments of timetabling and applications, which are supposed to be free disregards by users. The timetable is difficult to interpret by user in the first place. It’s also crushes many times often. This is where for example the same lecturer is given two different classes in a same hour. It is also unfavorable to visiting lecturers who many times complain of having other duties in the same hour allocated on it. The challenges met during the research were: Crushing time schedule for individual lecturers whereby we devised a means of improving the time table by collectively making it than sitting singularly to make one; Another challenge yet is confusing timetable to students whereby we have minimized such confusion by releasing the time table in time before the start of the semester for clear analysis and due collections in time. Lecture halls are few and there is lack of sufficient space for allocation of the lectures which hampers the timetable application. Yet another problem arising from lecturer competition for teaching space on particular days when their schedules are not tight is high. For example almost all lecturers would preferably allocate their lectures on Saturday which hampers the students’ right to rest on weekends. This, through our research was resolved by student-lecturer agreement which settles the timetable at the most convenient time schedules. This however, includes even wee late hours of the night. The issue of duplication and omissions of the time-table is one great challenge we faced in this research. However, we found a solution through all the above methods of problem analysis. For example by computerizing the time table we evaded the duplicity which minimally exists with the computerizing such work.
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Research Report Submitted to the School of Computer Studies in the Partial Fulfillment for The requirements of the Award of a Diploma in Information and Computer Science of Kampala International University
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Time Table Application System
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Kampala International University School of Computing and Information Technology