Toward a student information system for Sebha University, Libya

Abstract

A student information system provides a simple interface for the easy collation and maintenance of all manner of student information. The creation and management of accurate, up-to-date information regarding students' academic careers is critical students and for the faculties and administration ofSebha University in Libya and for any other educational institution. A student information system deals with all kinds of data from enrollment to graduation, including program of study, attendance record, payment of fees and examination results to name but a few. All these dataneed to be made available through a secure, online interface embedded in auniversity's website. To lay the groundwork for such a system, first we need to build the student database to be integrated with the system. Therefore we proposed and implementedan online web-based system, which we named the student data system (SDS),to collect and correct all student data at Sebha University. The output of the system was evaluated by using a similarity (Euclidean distance) algorithm. The results showed that the new data collected by theSDS can fill the gaps and correct the errors in the old manual data records.