ONLINE HOSTEL ALLOCATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF MOUNTAIN TOP UNIVERSITY)

Abstract

Hostel allocation has always been an essential part in the process of hostel management. Over the years, it has been noticed that the drastic intake of students into higher institute of learning has in many ways contributed to the tedious nature of the process. The whole process involving allocation, documentation, managing of reports and any more, however, has made it to be most often than not more cumbersome. In Mountain Top University, Ogun state (MTU), the present system been used for hostel allocation and management is the traditional (manual) system which makes it to be complex and can be time sensitive. This in turn has caused the accuracy level in managing of records and allocating students to hostels very low, run on low speed and since the present system involves lots of paper work, cause less efficient and effective as a whole and sure needs urgent attention. This project aimed at providing solutions to stated problems was done by designing an online platform where all student allocation, management and other hostel management related matters can be done fast and easy with less human errors. The system was built by using HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL as tools for its development. HTML and CSS playing a role for interface creation, PHP functioning as an object oriented programming language which basically validates forms and makes the system user friendly and MySQL as the server. The Online Allocation and Management System created helps to manage students’ allocation records in a safer and more secure way. The system provides a faster and more efficient way of allocating students to hostels, manage and adequately store records for future reference. The Online Allocation and Management System is a very useful, convenient, and efficient. It is a safe way of keeping records compared to the manual method currently used. The system is thereby opened to thoughtful future improvements so as to adjust to future needs and increase its level of productivity, effectiveness and efficiency