The grade of the students is one of the essential qualities and products of school works. Grades reflect and measure the performance of a student and determine whether a student passes the subject or not. It also helps the professors to guide and facilitate the students’ learning development. Thus, students’ grades must be accurately calculated, safety accumulated or stored in a datadase and must be well distributed to the students.
Knowing the grades at the end of every semester is the most awaited and most important part of individual student, particularly students in college. Some universities and colleges always used the traditional procedure of releasing grades; students need to go directly to their respective college registrar in order to acquire their progress or report card and other colleges post the grades of students in their school websites. These methods of acquiring student’s grades are inconvenient, tiresome and at some instances are time consuming and costly. . Since a mobile phone seems to be a positive feature which most individual’s posses, and take almost in all places with them, it is therefore an extremely effective means of transporting information to them faster and easier. SMS or Short Message Service is one of the most well-liked service components of phone which provide simplest way of accessing information using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or mobile phone devices. As a convenient and low-cost mobile communication technology, SMS is experiencing a very rapid growth. In fact, Philippines lead the Asia pacific region with the highest number of messages sent per user.
Scope:
1) To ease these difficulties in knowing the grades, a system using SMS or Short Message Service will be used. 2) The SMS Based Grade Inquiry System was proposed in order to give way for saving time and money. 3) It intends to perform the following