THE EFFECT OF ONLINE REGISTRATION SYSTEM ON STUDENTS

(A CASE STUDY OF A.D. RUFA’I COELEGS MISAU)

MUHAMMAD ALIYU MUHAMMAD

SCIS/01/22/355

COURSE CODE: COM222

SEMINER ON COMPUTER AND SOCIETY

Summitted to

AHMAD MUHAMMAD TIJJANI

Department of Computer Science

School of Communication and Information Science

SEPTEMBER,2022

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 ABSTRACT

The internet has finally found its way into the educational sector in a developing country like

Nigeria. This is attested to the fact that most Nigerian institutions have now either completely

or partially embraced the use student online registration system. This paper takes a look at

the various challenges faced by students in carrying out this task. Questionnaires were

distributed to students from various faculties to find out their level of satisfaction with the

online registration interface and procedure as well the challenges being faced in the course

of carrying out online registration. The results indicate that many of the students found it

very interesting and easy to use but with attendants’ challenges of inadequate systems to use,

slow speed of server, and lack of privacy of student data among others. The paper also

suggests the way forward in order to make this laudable exercise a huge success in the nation

tertiary institution.

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Contents
ABSTRACT..................................................................................................................................2

CHAPTER ONE...........................................................................................................................4

1.1 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................4

1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY....................................................................................4

1.3 BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................4

1.5 RESEARCH PROBLEM...............................................................................................5

CHAPTER TWO..........................................................................................................................7

2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW...............................................................................................7

CHAPTER THREE......................................................................................................................9

3.1 SYSTEM ANALYSIS........................................................................................................9

3.2 PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ONLINE REGISTRATION.....................13

CHAPTER FOUR.......................................................................................................................14

4.1 DISCUSSION...............................................................................................................14

4.2 CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................14

4.3 RECOMMENDATIONS..............................................................................................15

REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................17

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 CHAPTER ONE

1.1 INTRODUCTION

The role of The Effect Of Online Registration System On Students in tertiary education is

expanding and changing (Aitken, 2017). This is noted conspicuously with the introduction of

online registration in institutions of higher learning across the nation. This idea and

innovation was welcome with a lot enthusiasm. First it was seen as a form of relief for the

hitherto redundant, costly, extortionary, and time-wasting manual registration been practiced

before (Adepoju & Alhassan ,2018). Second, it allows the institutions to join the global trend

in Information Technology and thereby annex the opportunity it provides Registration by

students in higher institutions of learning in Nigeria used to be done manually until this decade

which sees to the introduction of online registration. The manual method involves filling of

different course forms, which are later submitted to the appropriate officers in charge who will

eventually file them as appropriate.

1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

To identify the challenges of online registration system.

To know whether the procedure used for online registration system easily usable and

accessible.

To assess and evaluate the website used for online registration

To identify the problems militating against the use of online registration system

1.3 BACKGROUND

The Effect Of Online Registration System On Students has significantly influenced various

sectors, including education. As technology continues to advance, there is an increasing need

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for a workforce proficient in programming and related skills. Early programming education has

become a key focus in preparing students for future careers in technology, with the aim of

equipping them with foundational skills that are critical in an increasingly digital world.

This list includes seminal works and recent studies relevant to early programming education

and its impact on preparing students for technology-driven careers. Ensure to provide full

URLs or DOIs for digital sources where applicable.

Benefits of Early Programming Education in Preparing Students for Technology-Driven

Careers

1.5 RESEARCH PROBLEM

Despite the growing recognition of the importance of programming skills, there remains a gap

in understanding how early programming education impacts students' preparedness for

technology-driven careers. This paper seeks to address this gap by investigating the role of

early programming education in shaping students' future career prospects.

Early programming education significantly contributes to the development of cognitive skills,

including problem-solving, logical reasoning, and critical thinking. By engaging with

programming concepts, students learn to decompose complex problems into smaller,

manageable tasks, a skill that is transferable to various domains. Research indicates that

students who engage in programming at an early age often show improved abilities in abstract

thinking and logical analysis, which are crucial for careers in technology.

This manual system has its inherent problems which include difficulty in locating registration

officers at crucial times, time wastage, loss of forms, and mutilation of forms and so on.

The advent if ICT which is firmly gaining ground in our higher institution gave room way for

the introduction of the university online registration system. The Effect Of Online Registration

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System On Students which is used as the case study is among the first universities to

commence the embrace the use of this technology in carrying out online registration.

This study therefore serves to critically assess and evaluate the extent to which this new

system has been able to solve the myriad of problems in the manual era and at the same time

to know the challenges and problems facing the current system.

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 CHAPTER TWO

2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW

Nowadays most organizations have their presence on the web. Among the teaming

growth in websites is the institutional or educational websites which are being

owned by schools or institutions. These types of website are very important

considering the type of services they render viz; informing the populace about the

school, online registration, giving guidelines to students seeking admission either for

undergraduate or post graduate studies (academic or research), showing research

areas for those interested in research, displaying admission list among others.

(Adepoju & Osofisan, 2018).

Sadiq, Momodu & Aladejubelo(2018) affirm that a college portal offers variety

of services that can be accessed by students, prospective students and the academic

at large. They further stated that with the aid of college portal tasks such as student

registration, course registration, as well students’ application can be carried out on

the internet. They are of the opinion that this approach is faster and more efficient

than the orthodox way of carrying out the task prior to the advert of college portal.

Olorundare (2019), who is also of the same opinion buttress this fact by

affirming that no doubt Information and Communication Technology has found

its way in education. He further stated that development in the education sector in

developed and developing countries attest to the fact that ICT has become a central

focus of many countries’ educational policies and such, its use and integration has

become widespread in the various school systems.

Berkowitz (2002) reports that information and technology skills are the 'new

basics' and being able to find and use information more effectively is essential to

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the success of students of all ages.

One way to make tasks easy to perform on the websites is to ensure that the site

is easy to use, access and read. This could be easily done by taken into

consideration various usability and accessibility guidelines advocated by usability

experts across the globe.

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 CHAPTER THREE

3.1 SYSTEM ANALYSIS

The students of A Case Study Of A.D. Rufa’i COELEGS Misau form the

population of the study. They are drawn the four schools in the university namely

School of Science and Science Education (SSSE), School of Engineering and

Engineering Technology (SEET), School of Environmental Technology (SET)

and School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology (SAAT). A total of 100

questionnaires were carefully and properly distributed to the students with all

the 100 returned which is 100% of the distributed items (Response rate).Equal

numbers of students were selected from each school. They were purposefully

selected to ensure that students who participate and do online registration on their

own are used for the study.

The questionnaire was divided into two sections with section one focusing on users’

satisfaction with the online registration procedure. Section two ask the users to

identify the various problem encountered in the course of doing online

registration. Through this qualitative data were gathered and the results of the

analyses were collected and analyzed by using descriptive statistics.

Sex Frequency

MALE 57

FEMALE 43

Total 100

Table 1: Sex of The Participants

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Table shows that 5 7% of the participants are Males while 43% are Females.

Table 2: Is Online Registration System?

Option Frequency

YES 90

NO 10

Total 100

From Table 2, 90% of the participants were of the view that the procedure

of online registration is not stressful while only 10% disagree with that view.

. Table 3: Stress Free According to Sex

stress free

SEX YES NO

Male 50 7

Female 40 3

Total 90 10

This is further analyzed in Table 3 according to sex, here 50 Males and 40

Females agreed that it is stress free irrespective of the faculty. Only 7 Makes and 3

females disagreed that it is not stress free.

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From Table 4, 38% of the participants strongly agreed that the log on procedure

to commence online registration is very easy to use, 54% agreed, 4% strongly

disagree while 4% disagree with this view.

Table 3: Log on Procedure based in School

log on procedure is easy

DISAGRE STRONGL AGRE STRONGLY

SCHOOL E Y E AGREED Total

DISAGRE

SSSE 0 1 12 12 25

SET 1 2 14 8 25

SEET 1 0 14 10 25

SAAT 2 1 14 8 25

Total 4 4 54 38 100

From Table 3, 12% of the participants from SSSE and 14% each from SET,

SEET and SAAT respectively agreed that the log on procedure is easy while 12%

from SSSE, 10% from SEET and 8% each from SET and SAAT respectively

strongly agreed. 1 participant each SET and SEET, 2 from SAAT and none

from SSSE disagree. Also 1 participant each from SSSE and SAAT, 2 from SET

and none from SEET strongly disagree with the view. This shows that 92%

find the log in procedure easy to use.

Table 4: Ease of Use Website

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 Ease of Use Total

SCHOOL DISAGR STRONGL AGREE STRONGL

EE Y Y

DISAGRE AGREE

SSSE 4 2 10 9 25

SET 6 4 11 4 25

SEET 2 4 13 6 25

SAAT 5 2 12 6 25

Total 17 12 46 25 100

Table 4 shows that 4 participants from SSSE, 6 from SET, 2 from SEET and 5

from SAAT disagree that the web site is easy to use. 2 participants from SSSE, 2

from SAAT and 4 each from SET and SEET respectively strongly disagree.

Also 10 participants from SSSE, 11 from Set, 13 from SEET and 12 from

SAAT agree while 9 participants from SSSE, 4 from

SET and 6 each from SEET and SAAT strongly agreed. This indicates that

majority of the audience (71%) find the websites easy to use.

Table 5: Ease of Reading of Website

Table 5 shows that 2 of the participants from SSSE, and 1 each from the

remaining three schools disagree that the website is easy to read. 8 of the

participants from SSSE, 16 from SAAT and 14 each from SET and SEET

agree. 15 participants from SSSE, 8 from SAAT and

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10 each from SET and SEET strongly agree. This shows that 95% of the
respondent representing 54% males and 41% females find the websites easy to

read.

3.2 PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ONLINE

REGISTRATION

The students were required to indicate the nature of problems they encountered in

the process of doing online registration. This is in view of the fact that the

problems encountered by students may vary from student to student. In all a total

11 problems were identified by the students in relation to online registration

system.

From Table 7 below, 26.5% of the students experience slow download of the

website in the process of doing online registration. Closely follow this is down

time by the server (20.14%). 6.4% of the respondents experienced wrong

allocation of units to courses, 16.96% experienced delay in acceptance of

financial details by the system, and 2.12% experienced delay from the banks in

sending the financial details to school.

Furthermore 1.1% of the respondents said they encountered problems from power

failure. Unexpectedly this percentage is low but this is so because most café has

made provision for stand by generators.

There is also complaint about security of student data which is represented by 2.1%.

15.5% of the participant also experienced invalid matriculation number which was

wrongly uploaded to the net. More so, 16.9% complained of inadequate system for use

while another 6.4% complained of lack of frequent update of files.

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 CHAPTER FOUR

4.1 DISCUSSION

From the study it was discovered that the numbers of systems available to use

by students either within the campus or even in the cybercafé are not adequate.

This often leads to congestion, long and unnecessary queue, and wasting of

time. All these will eventually lead to the delay in the completion of the

registration process. A similar study conducted by

4.2 CONCLUSION

The results from this study clearly indicate that many problems are still militating

against the students’ online registration system. An exercise that is supposed

to be simple, easy and stress free is nothing but rather tedious, time

consuming and cumbersome despite the widely

Chinwe (2006) indicated that unavailability of internet facilities is an

impediment to its use. If the systems (facilities) are not readily available,

certainly the process of registration will be further delay. She further identified

power failure, poor environment, and slow speed of server, system breakdown,

and insufficient workstation as some of the problems affecting internet access in

institution of higher learning.

From the study lack of frequent updates of the websites is another major problem.

Because of incidences of wrong data entry and wrong allocation of credits to

courses, it is expected that the website should be updated from time to time once

the complaints are made known to the authority. However this is not often the

case as the students keep on making the same complaints over and over.

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At times delay response from some banks in sending financial details of

students for uploading to the server is another problem encountered by some

students.

The slow speed of the server which is as a result of either low bandwidth

used by the cybercafé operator or the school is another major challenge. When

there is traffic congestion accessibility to the site is at a snail speed. This tends to

hamper the registration procedure.

Commenting on the operation of existing and associated problem in relation to

college portal, Sadiq, Momodu & Aladejubelo (2018) describe the epileptic

nature of the electricity power supply in the country as a major constraint in the

usage of internet application which online registration depends on mainly.

Further more students majorly access the portals by visiting public internet

centers popularly known as cybercafé. This may involve transportation from

one place to another on the part of the students which is usually not convenient.

acclaimed technological innovation and advancement. Introduction of technology

or more precisely an automated system should be devoid of most problems

identified in this study.

Therefore, in order to make this system usable, accessible and interesting, I wish

to make the following recommendations. There should be adequate provision

of enough systems for use for online registration. No doubt the population of

the students is increasing session by session, so it is expected that there should

be corresponding increase in the number of access points for students to do online

registration. This will not only avoid congestion on the few available systems but

it will also hasten the registration process.

4.3 RECOMMENDATIONS

A very good alternative is that the management should make concerted effort to
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partner with private or public organization so as to make laptop available for

students at a very affordable price. This will allow students to do online

registration on their own at any convenient time 24/7 using wireless network at

any convenient location.

There should also be increase in the bandwidth used for internet access. The

current 11mbps being used mostly is relatively small and inadequate for the

student population. Increase in the bandwidth will definitely lead to fast

access and speedy completion of registration process. A bandwidth of 100mbps

or more is recommended.

More practical training should be organized for students on internet usage as

this will aid them in carrying out the online registration. As it is today many

students still engage the services of other students or cybercafé operator to do

online registration for them. This is not good enough for our university system in

a developing nation like this.

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