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section or the practical one. Accordingly, the HCGE specifies the registration duration which allows
students to apply for the exam.
At the end of registration duration, UEGE start its final activities such as managing student seating in
exam halls. Each student is given a Seat Number, which is a unique number, and it's used to identify
the student on the coming exam activities.
After the expiry of registration duration, college registrars are required to correct any errors that may
appear during the registration phase. Thus, they make the necessary updates on their records, and
send them in an MS-Excel file with a predetermined format to UEGE via one of the following methods:
1. E-mail.
2. Floppy Diskettes.
3. CD-ROMs.
4. Flash Memories.
5. Papers (Hard Copies)
The Proposed System
The key solution to avoiding all the problems mentioned previously is to find a unified way to solve the
problems mentioned earlier. The only unified way is by computerization.
First, registrars should find a better way to communicate with UEGE; this could only be achieved by
an Online Registration System. Since the whole country is connected to the Internet, it's very easy to
make use of that feature to facilitate the way in which UEGE can monitor what's going on there in the
colleges and detect errors during the registration process once they are entered to the system.
Hence, there's no need to wait until the end of the registration duration to start auditing.
Online-Registration Systems
Several registrations systems are used in the Jordanian universities and colleges, some of them
support the online registration features and some do not. Some of these systems were purchased by
local or international software companies, and some are developed internally by the software
development teams in the computer centers each in the relevant university or college.
What makes this registration system almost distinguished when compared to others, is that it’s a
Special-Purpose Registration System. First of all, the system is explicitly used to enroll students to
exams, the General-Associate-Degree Examination (GADE); here, courses are grouped into
collections called Exam Papers.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The proposed system is a 3-Tier web-based. 3-Tier Architecture is a Client/Server Architecture in
which the user interface, functional process logic (business rules), computer data storage, and data
access are developed and maintained as independent modules, most often in different platforms[3].
Fig. 1 shows a 3-Tier Architecture design.
The Database Layer
The proposed system's database will be implemented using Microsoft SQL Server 2005. This layer
provides high connectivity and availability, plus, it provides system developers with the ability to
manage and administer their databases easily, especially using the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of
its Management Studio. In addition to enabling developers to create their own stored procedures or
use built-in system ones.
The Application Layer
As shown in Fig. 1, the Application Layer contains the User Interface (UI), Business Rules, and the
Data-Access Components. In this system, .Net 2.0 framework is used to provide data access to the
MS-SQL Server 2005 by the use of ADO.NET.
CONCLUSION
A web-based application was designed, developed, and implemented as a web portal that enables
different parties working with Associate-Degree General Examination to benefit from.
As a proposed future work on this system, the following points should be taken into consideration:
1. Short Messaging Service (SMS): this is a very important service the system must include. Briefly,
student cell-phone numbers are currently stored into the system's database. This predetermined
feature allows us to build on, to come out with a subsystem that enables the system to send news to
students, such as their Seat Numbers, exam appointments, new regulations and legislations, and
probably their results.
2. Online Student Registration: to make it much easier for the college registrars, students might
have been given an access to the website wherever they are; they are requesting to be enrolled into
the exam, the request status stays pending until verified and audited by the registrar.
3. Upgrading the system to support AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML): this reduces the
load time of each page, and thus makes interacting with the system much easier and faster.
4. Customized Reports: as a further future work, colleges might be granted some administrative
privileges on the system to allow them to manage the reports they need, so that the system never
controls the way and format in which reports are displayed, but each college or moderate can
customize a set of reports as they are seen appropriate to their usage.