ABSTRACT
Lecture Reminder is a tool that permits academic students and lecturers to keep track of all the things you need to know like due dates and locations. The aim of the study is to design and implement a Lecture Reminder System that will notify students and lecturer about the scheduled lecture date. In achieving this aim, the specific objectives were set out to develop a Lecture Reminder System application software that will be compatible in any browser accessible devices, and implement a system that will facilitate early notification / reminder of scheduled lecture date, design a system that will flexible in terms of serving as a reminder toward rescheduling of an impromptu lecture by course lecturer, thereby notifying students about the new venue and time of lecture, develop a system that helps out the staff to make their message receive are more manageable and easy to the check their task within the system, build a system that give alert message using SMS application at the same time make things easier for staff and lecturer to check their lecture scheduled date and venue. The motivation that led to the implementation of the proposed system is that academic staff and lecturers forgets an appointment that has been arranged, thereby not teaching / lecturing the course for the schedule date, some Students omits lecture classes due to wrong scheduled venue and time as a result of an impromptu change of venue and time, and lack of compatible devices to execute the existing application software, hence the new system will be designated for all browser accessible devices with data required. Lecture Reminder System has many features that very helpful to the user. The first that can be described is calendar system. Calendar will be use as a reference to the dates and the days that users are going to set. The user can view the current date and month or the previous and next month calendar, the system will also help to arrange the lecture with furtherance to their order of priority.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
Lecture Reminder is a tool that permits academic students and lecturers to know like due dates and locations. Lecture Reminder has turned to be a very important tool in time management and it is a common saying in time management that it is better to keep track of things using a system rather than your memory. A Lecture Reminder System is important for busy people because we do not have to remember all our academic works, and writing them down somewhere is not a very good idea because then we have to keep track of that piece of paper. The Reminder System lets you “set and forget” and then gets reminded when the lecture time comes and so it becomes a perfect tool for lecturers and students.
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Limitation of the study and Definition of technical terms.
1.2 Background of Study
According to Wikipedia (2021), lecture reminder software is a type of time management computer software that is designed to alert the user of important events that they have input to the program. Most programs provide a calendar or list view of events, as well as a reminding technique. Most common reminding techniques are pop-up dialog boxes and auditory alarms (Wikipedia, 2021).
Events may include birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, various one-time events. Often the software comes with a set of pre-installed events (such as holidays) and allows the user to create custom events. As software has made the transition to web services, a number of online reminder services have appeared. Users subscribed to those services usually receive their reminders by email or SMS. Context-aware reminder systems can set reminders based on the user’s current location (Wikipedia, 2021).
Modern mobile devices such as smartphones have become increasingly powerful and also part of day-to-day lives of the people. As mobile devices become more like PCs they will come to replace objects we tend to carry around such as planners, to do list etc. and also help in accomplishing our daily tasks. (Divya et al, 2012)
The increasing growing in the popularity of the android devices is part of the few reasons I decided to choose this platform for the implementation of this project. Lecture time table reminder system is an application which is meant to prevent users (both students and lecturers) from being forgetful about the lecture they have according to the information they have entered.
Therefore, in Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State where the research was carried out, the activities that was conducted is to implement the Lecture Reminder System.
