Internship Management Information System Case Study: Soroti University, Soroti
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2024
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Busitema University
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The purpose of this study was to solve all the problems that exist in each stage of the internship
process, starting from application, registration, selecting an internship place, submission of
report and appraisal of internship reports. This study used descriptive research methods. The
primary aim of this study is to design and implement an internship management information
system, introduce its use to Soroti University and be used by the appropriate departments of
this organization and others in Uganda.
The main goal of this paper is to research demands and practices on internships and to develop
a web application in compliance with these demands and practices. Its role introduces portion
of internship management system functionalities. An important component of communication
between businesses, educational institutions, and students (S-B-A) is the Internship
Management System (IMS), which is also a potent tool for enhancing the digitization of
internship-related procedures.
The Internship Management System (IMS) will facilitate many processes between the
counterparts. Internships will ease the process of discovering talents fitting the internal culture
of the companies and increasing the companies’ productivity. And, the internship will assist
educational institutions being market-oriented by making students prior to their graduation to
be better informed with the requests of the market and being aware of their skills and abilities.
In this research, we give different perspectives and approaches on practices of internships,
design patterns and frameworks and on reinforcing the communication between the three
above mentioned pillars (S-B-A). Questionnaire surveys are used as a methodology for
conducting this research. Businesses are the subject of the study and the gained information
provide a better observation of the study. The design pattern is chosen as a trend in software
development as best suited implementation for the internship web-based portal as an outcome
of this study.
The approaches employed include RAD (Rapid Application Development), which made it
simple to deliver a functioning system by working on every part one after the other, and
Structured System Analysis and Design (SSAD), which was employed for the system's
analysis and design. In addition, the researcher used PHP, an open-source general-purpose
scripting language that is particularly well-suited for web application and system development
and is capable of being integrated into the Hypertext Markup as well as The MySQL database
system as a tool for managing databases. Furthermore, the two main web scripting languages
used to create web pages and web based applications were HTML (Hyper-text Markup
Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). HTML structured web pages, whereas CSS was
mostly used to govern out looks in addition to bootstrap framework open source for uniformity
and system interface consistency and user friendliness.
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Okodan, A. (2024). Internship Management Information System Case Study: Soroti University, Soroti [Research Report]. Busitema University.