PROJECTS GROUND

 INTRODUCTION

It is safe to say that most activities such as hostel allocation carried out in most universities in Nigeria are done manually. Therefore, there is a lot of strain on the individuals running the hostels. An E-Hostel system is simply software developed for managing most activities that take place in the hostels with the help of a hostel administrator.
The goal of this research work is to provide a solution to the problem of hostel management, by designing a computerized system which is user-friendly and GUI-oriented that will be compatible with the existing manual systems. The software to be developed will solve the problem of hostel management; thus helping to reduce problems associated with the manual hostel management system. The project uses University of Calabar as Case Study.

PROBLEM DEFINITION

            Problems associated with hostel records when manually handled by hostel staffs in University of Calabar include:

• Records are manually written and stored in various registers.
• Lots of human errors are encountered when records are hand-written.
• The use of numerous registers for hostel allocation can be very cumbersome, hence tracing records become tedious.
• Difficulty in maintaining or updating the records, hence, retrieval of a certain dataset from a bunch of registers is almost impossible.
• Loss or damage of any of the registers leads to damage of lots of important files at a time.
• Lack of data security.