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2023 Faculty of Science and Technology NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Design and Implementation of a Modular Student Results Management System for a Senior Secondary School in Old Kampala Senior Secondary School

Mugisha Samuel

At the turn of this century, the government encouraged the use of computers and IT teaching in schools. It wasprudent for Old Kampala SSS to embrace this innovation or else it lags behind. It was therefore due to this urgencyto keep up with the pace that led to the development of a student results management system at Old Kampala SSS.Traditional methods of recording, compiling and keeping student results were the norm, for example, the use ofpapers to record and store exam results in file cabinets, the manual compiling of students’ results was very slow,prone to errors and very tiresome which lead to the late release of student results. With the above background, astudy had to be carried out, whose main objective was to design and implement a modular student resultsmanagement system that would enable the staff of Old Kampala SSS to record, compile, process and store studentresults so as to increase efficiency and effectiveness. System requirements were obtained using several techniquesincluding the sampling technique which was used to identify the sample population from whom data was got. Thesample population was then subjected to the data collection tools using Questionnaires. A Use case diagram, ClassDiagram, Data Flow Diagram, and Flow Chart were used to analyze and design the system. The system wasimplemented using VB used to design the front-end user interfaces (forms), while MS Access was used for thedatabase server.