Real-time notification system for class activities in Busitema University.

Abstract

In recent years, resourceful technology and innovation advancement has occurred in the area of web applications development, especially with advance integration of smart embedded systems (SES) which has contributed immensely to the collaborations between web applications and embedded system developers. Several challenges have been experienced in adopting computerized system for activities such as scheduling of work, time-tabling, lecture notes preparation and distribution, power point slide, results preparations and notifications of events in most institutions of higher learning, colleges, industries, banks and others. In this report, the author developed a real time notification system for class activities in Busitema University, Uganda. The proposed system utilizes the bulk Web-SMS service to send real time messages to students. The web application was developed using MySQL database with python as the web scripting server side language.