Development of an Enhanced Course Registration System for University Undergraduate Students

Abstract

Course Registration is one of the key activities of students during the studying period, hence 
the demand for an efficient course registration system cannot be over emphasized. A study 
into the existing course registration process in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, 
one of the leading State University in Nigeria reveals some limitations in their course 
registration system. Thereby, the existing system was analyzed and worked upon to improve 
its efficiency, and to meet the needs of the students and the university at large. In doing this, 
an enhanced students’ course registration system that allow students to register for their 
courses with minimal error was developed by automating the course registration 
processing. The enhanced system was developed using an adaptive software development 
approach of the agile methodology and implemented with PHP (hypertext processor) and 
MYSQL database management systems using the Department of Computer Science, 
Adekunle Ajasin University as a case study. Results from the system when tested showed an 
improvement on the existing system, and have contributed in no small measure in reducing
the stress that the students and result processing officers used to go through in the course of 
course registration and result processing respectively. The system can be used across the 
Departments of the University and other Universities in Nigeria.