ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES (MSc Program)

Course: Object-Oriented Software Analysis and Design

Title: develop Online Graduates Credential Verification System For Arba
Minch University

Prepared By: - 1. Meseret Humunie

2. Tewodros Demise
3. Tabor wegi

DECEMBER, 2017
ARBA MINCH
ETHIOPIA
Introduction

A system of verification as in this project is an application program used to verify that someone
or something rightly and legally belongs to an organization. Credentials verification system is
used to know whether or not the certificate provided is legal and rightly issued for the student. In
this context, it is also used to verify that a student belongs to an institution and to confirm that he
or she is properly registered in a particular department running any of the institutions program
and checking whether the student Credentials is correct even if their name is registered and
certificate is given for them. This Credentials verification system is an electronic and
computerized means of verifying someone’s claim of studentship or validating degree certificate
by an institution using an output clearly showing the truth or false of student certificate.

Background of the Project

For a long period of time, students identification and verification has been a major problem in
higher institutions as documents, certificate and studentship can be forged at a great rate and easy
way, using the computer negatively. Certificate verification is mandatory for most of the reputed
companies or organizations in order to reduce the risks related to it. Arba Minch University still
now has no such verification system that can help essential for the graduated students when they
are hiring or hired in any organization. Also enrolment verification is designed to fulfil the
verification requirements of companies that offer products or services requiring proof of a
student's enrolment status. For accessing several academic documents graduated students spends
much time and cost and loose several good career opportunities in their life.

Statement of the problem

At this time Arba Minch University is not having any computerized system to deal with degree
verification for bachelors as well as post graduate degree holders from here. Only thing is the
employer or whoever concerned needs to contact the office of registrar or academic record office
for such purposes can contact the registrar and then get the student Credentials. This is one of the
great time consuming circumstance in Arba Minch University registrar.
The following are the main problem
  Time consuming: - In existing system time are consumed in both organization and
external user side.
 Exposed to different factors such as fraud certificate and corruption.

 Difficulty of searching the graduated students file.

 Illegal or faulty modification of credentials.

 Fault certificate made by Arba Minch University name.

 Increased illegal employee in the country.

 Declined legal credentials values

 Embarrassment and negative impact to the organization's reputation.

Objectives

General Objectives of the project

The general objective of this project is to develop web based “Graduates Credential Verification
System for Arba Minch University Graduates and Post Graduates.
Specific Objective
To achieve the above mentioned general objective, the project addressed the following specific
objectives:
 To investigate and identify the problems in the existing manual system certificate
handling.
 To model and implement for using object oriented Unified Modeling Language.
 To propose the solutions to improve the current certificate of Arba Minch University
graduate of students.
 To Design and implement a database for proper implementation of the system.

 To demonstrate the potential of the system for further application and scalability.
 Scope and Limitation of the project
Scope of the project
The scope of this project focus on online Graduated credentials verification system for Arba
Minch and authentication of documents only for students, bachelor’s degree and post graduate
degree. Thus graduates were must be graduated from Arba Minch and also the system is
available only for Arba Minch University.

Limitations of the Project

 The system available for only Arba Minch University.

 Non-graduating students or any person are not entered to the system.

 If there is no power and internet connection the system is not available.