Proposal for School Management School
1. Introduction
Education system can be considered as the number one factor for development in the world. That is the reason why it is crucial to provide a strong educational foundation to the young generation. Advanced information technology available today can play a vital role in simplifying education-related processes to promote easy interaction among students, teachers, parents and the school staff.
Currently the government is now putting more emphasizes on the educational sector by training and upgrading teachers, building more schools facilities, sponsoring brilliant student to further their education and more action which have been undertaken in both primary and secondary schools.
In order to facilitate and simplify these actions one of the basic tool is to have an automated school management system. Automation is the utilization of technology to replace human with a machine that can perform more quickly and more continuously (W. Erben, August 2000). By automating the school management information system, documents that take up large storage rooms can be stored on a single personal computer. It reduces the time to retrieve old transcripts from hours to seconds. However, the school system used in most of the governmental and private schools in Ghana is not automated, all transcripts and reports are manually generated and the school administrators use their experienced knowledge of trial and error approaches to prepare timetables.
1.1 Subject and Field of Study
Information technology can be simply defined has the study of the use of technology to improve information dissemination and handling. This decade, Information technology has made so many impacts in areas like military, health, engineering, education etc. For example in the educational sector, information technology has made a huge impact through the introduction of the School Management Information System (SMIS). SMIS is a process in which tasks such as registering students, keeping
Education system can be considered as the number one factor for development in the world. That is the reason why it is crucial to provide a strong educational foundation to the young generation. Advanced information technology available today can play a vital role in simplifying education-related processes to promote easy interaction among students, teachers, parents and the school staff.
Currently the government is now putting more emphasizes on the educational sector by training and upgrading teachers, building more schools facilities, sponsoring brilliant student to further their education and more action which have been undertaken in both primary and secondary schools.
In order to facilitate and simplify these actions one of the basic tool is to have an automated school management system. Automation is the utilization of technology to replace human with a machine that can perform more quickly and more continuously (W. Erben, August 2000). By automating the school management information system, documents that take up large storage rooms can be stored on a single personal computer. It reduces the time to retrieve old transcripts from hours to seconds. However, the school system used in most of the governmental and private schools in Ghana is not automated, all transcripts and reports are manually generated and the school administrators use their experienced knowledge of trial and error approaches to prepare timetables.
1.1 Subject and Field of Study
Information technology can be simply defined has the study of the use of technology to improve information dissemination and handling. This decade, Information technology has made so many impacts in areas like military, health, engineering, education etc. For example in the educational sector, information technology has made a huge impact through the introduction of the School Management Information System (SMIS). SMIS is a process in which tasks such as registering students, keeping