UNIVERSITY STUDENT PROJECT TRACKER (USPT)

Abstract

Over the years, we have had complaints of people copying someone else’s project directly as his/her own. Therefore, this project is aimed at solving the problem of copyright as identified during seminar presentations, project defense etc in schools. To solve the above mentioned problem, this  application is developed to  capture relevant  information of all project  works undertaken and completed in the department. The application is an off-line tracking system; it will be installed on the user computer for use. The system will track projects by inputting some parameters of a new project to ascertain whether the work has been done by somebody especially from the Computer Science department, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN). This system would help supervisor to assign topic to students using recommendations from the previous project. Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) methodology was used for the analysis and design while Java and MYSQL was used to implement in a window 7.

Chapter 1:

Introduction

1.0   Introduction

Over the years, there have been several issues of students going to the departmental library to pick a copy of project written by another person, not as a guide but to submit the same topic as a research proposal to his/her supervisor without the knowledge of the teacher or supervisor’s recommendation. When approved, the student goes ahead to copy word after words as his/her own. And these are plagiarism which is against the academic law. Therefore, this project will serve as database for the department of computer science to check mate these abnormality by student. To this end, this project is aim at solving the problem of copying someone else project as his/her own as identified during a seminar presentation in the department of computer science. To  solve  this  problem mentioned above,  monitoring software will  be  designed, to  capture relevant information of all project works undertaken and completed in the department. This project will track student by querying the database, using text from the students research work through some parameters of the new project to ascertain whether the work has been done by somebody else. This system would help supervisor to assign topic to students by the recommendation from the previous project. The University Student project Tracker (USPT) will be designed using Java and MYSQL implemented in a Windows 7. This USPT is a standalone application that will help to track the project work from the database through the search engine. In this case, the entire project that undertaken and completed in the department will be stored for records purpose or referential purposes. The USPT is an off-line tracking system that will help to track the project work by comparing the proposed project with the one stored in the database which is off-line.

The USPT will help the department of computer science to track project works, documents, assignments and research papers. They can check the contents of a project’s originality before accepting or rejecting it. When a project is loaded in the USPT, it goes through its content to ascertain the percentage of text copied or the similarities with existing projects through the search engine.

1.1   Statement of the problem

Over the years, we have had complaints of people copying someone else’s project directly as his/her  own.  This  has  led  to  lack  of  originality  in  several  researches,  increased  level  of plagiarism and laziness on the part of researchers.

1.2   Aim/ Objectives of the project

The aim/goal of this work is to design a tracking system for the department of computer science that will serve as a database for storing project work done by students. Specifically the aim/objectives of the project are:

1.  To identify the original owner of a project work.

2.  To identify the percentage of text copied or similar in a project

3.  To help supervisor in assigning topics to students using the recommendations of the tracker.

4.  To provide a database of the project works done by student of the department for records purpose or referential purposes.

1.3   Significance of the project

1.  This project has a greater potential for the department of computer science as it will help them before the defense to track any students who copied someone’s work directly as his/her own.

2.  It will also help supervisor in assigning topics to students using the recommendations of the tracker.

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