ABSTRACT

The quality of academic advising received by a student is crucial to the overall performance of the student. Good advising yields a good outcome while bad advising will be frustrating and have a damaging effect on students' progress, This research work is concise and generally summarizes the activities duly carried out in the design and implementation of an Intelligent Course Advising System for undergraduates of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. The objective of the system is to be able to give advice to students based on their academic records and performance levels. The number of students in need of counseling is very enormous and few staff in counseling cannot handle the job effectively and it is always very easy to forget information about students. The mode of storage of information observed from the students in different forms are not reliable, this makes the course advisors apply guess work in trying to direct students in their course of study and it is a very big delay in taking decision on students concerning their future career. It would be of great necessity to provide a computerized system that will provide a substitute channel for academic activities to be carried out The automated system will ensure that information about students are properly managed and also their course that can be registered, The use of database will help in easy retrieval of information and control data concurrency. The automated system expected to provide adequate enabling environment for counseling on student to give them better career perspective and allow student to post uestion to the advisers and receive answer to their questions. The study outlines the main concepts of the methodology and analysis of the proposed system, compares it to the existing and goes further to explain the design and implementation of the system. The methodologies used are Waterfall model and Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology (OOADM). The fact finding techniques employed is questiolmaire, observation, online and library research. The proposed system will be designed using HTML, CSS, PHP and MYSQL as database.