1COMPARE
1COMPARE
BY
SUPERVISED BY
MARCH 2023.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
The University and its Faculty have a variety of procedures for dealing with
student-related issues. A complaint system is a set of procedures used in
organizations to address complaints and resolve disputes. One area not
generally covered by other procedures concerns student complaints about
faculty environment problems or other informal academic settings. There is also
a major need to collect, review and understand the nature of conflict
management and complaint systems around the faculty. CMS(Complaint
Management System) is aimed at creating efficient software portal for
addressing the grievances of the students for various purposes like broken
furniture problem in class, microphone issues, projector problems, toilets
plumbing, electricity issues, and other faculty mess related problems and many
more. Therefore, a need for a system that could detect student’s problems and
provide them with suitable feedback is raised. This system will be able to
handle complaints by recording and giving feedback for each raised complaint.
Results of the study can be a good reference to find out user needs from e-
complaint and the handling process of this complaint.
The researcher believe that the Design and Implementation of tertiary institution
web-based student complaint management system will help in solving
alleviating some of these problems that is facing students in the University
environment. The basic problems facing complaint monitoring team in the
tertiary institutions are:
a. Lack of Database: There is no database set up to screen transfer of
complaint submitted on paper or as verbal representation. Therefore,
there is no accurate record of students and their complaints. As a result,
the use of manual systems is ineffective and unreliable.
b. Absence of Fitting Security: There is lack of fitting security and
upkeep of the complaint record in the system that makes an avenue for
disappointment and control of information. Suppose there is a little
problem, all the documents of students’ complaints could be lost. But
with the computerized system, records could never be lost due to a small
issue.
c. Low Performance: Poor performance of the manual system may lead
to the missing or exploitation of the complaint by the staff or any member
of the management.
d. Lack of Precision: There is lack of legitimate precise, concise data
about the student’s implicit character
The significance of this study is to serve better than the existing system which is
highly manual and therefore difficult in terms of monitoring the complaint in
the University, improve database and enhance effectiveness, efficiency and
security of the system. It is also intended that the study will help in the
development of a new and hopefully and standard better computer aided system
Keep them available and readily accessible to staff and for inspection
Display the name and contact number of who the complaint can be
directed to
How many complaints are being resolved within the timeframes set by
our policy and which departments, schools and staff are not meeting
the timeframes?
1.6 Methodology
The part of the system analysis and design stage concentrated around the
configuration of design method utilized. Hence, we will consider the different
outline routines developed. A configuration is the first speculation into the
development phase for any product or system designed. A decent outline or
steps is intending to promote the system.
The designed model was then implemented using PHP, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, and MySQL programming languages. Finally, the developed
complaints management system was tested using black box testing technique.
To fully understand what the study is all about, important and dispensable terms
have been chosen and due definition given to them.
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 INTRODUCTION
Wherever there was a complain on our campuses across the nation, students
requiring the enforcement of standards of behavior and imposing punishment
for discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament, faultfinding
was always difficult to actualize.
It is important to understand that the initial information both parties may have
about an incident may not be the full picture which is why it is important to
share, listen and try to understand all perspectives until the matter has been fully
investigated and the facts are known. Working with parents and others in
resolving complaints, helps schools to identify ways to further improve the
service they provide to children, young people and their families.
Complaints may escalate rapidly unless they are well managed, a proper
computerized system to take complaints, and record the complaints taken is idea
to solve many challenges our campuses in Nigeria is facing, to have a process in
place to end all kind of riots on campuses from students complaints not being
adhere too.
With a computerized complaint system, where students can go and submit their
complaint.
The Education Act 2002 requires Governing Bodies of all maintained university
schools to have in place, and publish a procedure to deal with complaints
relating to the school, and to any community facilities or services that the school
provides. The procedure should be approved by the Governing Body and
published in the school Prospectus and other publications or, the school’s
website. Parents and careers should have access to the procedure. In Stockport
the Governing Body of every school has adopted the same complaints process.
In the case of Academy schools there are certain areas by which complaints are
dealt with under a different procedure:
• Undue delay or non-compliance with published complaints procedures;
• Allegations that the Academy has acted unlawfully or failed to comply with a
contractual duty imposed on it under its Funding Agreement with the Secretary
of State or any other legal obligation
• Dealing with complaints that independent appeal panels for admission to
Academies have not complied with the School Admission Appeals Code.
- Saving complains for further preview. The system automatically saves all
details of any complaint submitted therefore a complaint can easily be
printed for a student in the case of further investigation. The system can
also serves as a source of data collection.
Chang et al. describe the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the theory of
planned behavior (TPB) to anticipate which factors influence customers'
intentions to complain when they encounter a service failure, whether online or
offline. Methodology/design/approach – The instrument of a survey
questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data. Data were gathered from
300 potential consumers in order to determine the impact of attitude, subjective
norm, and perceived behavioral control on the intention to complain.
Participants were randomly allocated to one of two conditions: online medium
or offline medium. To test hypotheses, two stage structural equation modeling
was used. Findings – It was discovered that both the TRA and the TPB
accurately predict the intention to complain, however the TPB is more robust
than the TRA in online media and weaker than the TRA in offline media.
CHAPTER THREE
PROCEDURE MANUAL
This is just a written document on the existing system it involves some
handouts, text book and already written project, complied. A lot of information
were gotten through this means and it help because the information obtained
from the interview were easily looked up in the procedural manual, existing
paper and manual file documents.
OBSERVATIONS
By this method, the researcher was able to get information from the
various departments and units of complaint records, most complains from
students were being processed in my presence which made thing easier for one
to comprehend.
STUDYING FORMS/CARDS
Studying the forms collected more data and files, which were being utilized in
the complaint record and complaint statistics of the students. The system was
equally understood through this means.
INPUT FORM B
OFFENCE INVITATION FORM
This office is investigating a case of ………………………….
You are hereby required to report on the ………………… day of 200……. at
about …………………… you will please bring along with
you……………………… on arrival you will ask of ………….
Though in the expert system some other questions or things are added;
the student’s phone number, who is he addressing the complaint too? (The Vice
chancellor, The Student Affair Unit or The Head of he/ she Department) and
these information are stored in the computer.
The administrator of the system views all the complains submitted and
channel the complains to the appropriate body after then information above
might have been obtained and answered. If it is manually the student
commission will have to analyze it, file the complaint first then start finding
results for the complainer.
Student Complaints
Student Affairs
Division takes
complain to file.
Complaint is
pending to be
delivered to the
appropriate body.
THE DASHBOARD – The Dashboard section has 6 sections which the said
administrator controls; these sections include View Complains, Respond to
complains, Add Other Admin, Add New Task, Number of Students Register,
and Admin Available.
FILE DESIGN
This new system is database development and we had to choose the better
data file design that will suit our data file processing.
We did not choose sequential access file processing owing to the
following reasons:
i) Access method used here is always sequential
ii) Information are stored as ASC II characters
iii) Occupies more memory space
iv) It is slow in accessing a record
v) It does not allow record structure etc.
Thus we have seen the advantages which the random access files have
over the sequential access file. In this file design, we undertook or used the
random access file.
Structure for File “Students Register”
PROGRAM FLOWCHART
This system consists of two flowcharts. The first flowchart is the complaint is
added by students. The other is which the admin views submitted complaints.
START
LOGIN PAGE
IS STUDENT NO REGISTERATION
REGISTERED? PAGE
YES
COMPLAINT FORM
COMPLAINT SUBMITTED
YES
FLOWCHART SHOWING HOW COMPLAINT IS VIEWED/
RESPONED TO
START
ADMIN
IS ADMIN NO REGISTERATION
REGISTERED? PAGE
YES
REPLY TO
SUMITTED
COMPLAINS
YES
EXIT SUB
SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
While considering the system requirement, we need to state it in two
classifications, namely:
(a) SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
(b) HARDWARD REQUIREMENT
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
For this new system to work effectively the following software must be
provided.
(i) Any disk operating system (e.g. WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS 8)
(ii) Then this software design (on complaint record)
(iii) Internet or a Local Server
HARDWARE REQUIREMENT
The hardware requirement includes
(i) A CPU of model 386 and above
(ii) A VDU (coloured i.e. VGA/EGA)
(iii) Enhanced keyboard
(iv) A printer (laser jet or dot matrix)
(v) A UPS (i.e. uninterrupted power supply) of about 30 min capacity.
CHAPTER FIVE
RECOMMENDATION
This piece of work was embarked upon with the hope that, from the
design and implementation of this software package, it will lead to improving the
practice system of the school in handling student’s complaints faster and more
efficiently. Based on this, the following suggestions are recommended.
- That maintenance culture should be practice, as regard, the computer
machine. The computer and its peripherals should be subjected to
occasional maintenance checks. This can be done either by calling on a
trained computer engineer or alternatively trained personnel in the school,
who will carry out these simple checks.
- The computer should be installed, and operated in a cool but not damp
environment. The environment should not be dusty, the computer and its
peripherals should be provided with dust-proof covers, which could be
used to cover the machine when not in use.
- Training and retraining programe should be organized for the operational
staff to update their knowledge in the field of computer science from time
to time.
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Cardozo Ben. N. The Nature of the student process (New Publish Haven
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