Development of an Automated University Examination Timetabling System
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Date
2016-01
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International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
Abstract
Timetabling is one of the most important administrative activities that require huge attention
of the school authorities in all educational institutions. Part of which has to do with
examinations. Examination timetabling is sometimes a serious challenge in most universities.
The objective of this work is to design and implement a web-based automated platform for
university examination timetabling. The system discussed in this paper was developed using
Macromedia Dreamweaver for creating the websites while MySQL serves as the database.
The programming languages used consists of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), PHP
(Hypertext Preprocessor), Javascript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and SQL (Structured
Query Language). PHP is a scripting language that is embedded in HTML. PHP scripting
code is used to connect web pages to MySQL databases to create dynamic web sites. The
system was able to successfully schedule the university examination timetable within a few
seconds without clashes of invigilators and examination venues. If the system is fully
implemented and adopted, it will go a long way to correct the problems encountered during
the manual method of examination timetabling in most universities
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Keywords
Examination,, Timetabling,, Programming,, Automated,, Web-based