Abstract:
Mobile phone plays a very important role in student life today; its functionality has
been extended from voice communication devices to internet surfing and data transfer.
Bugema University dean of student office, hold and organize numerous events throughout
the academic year and it relies on email communications for notifying its students. Using
the email notification for communication to the staff for different issues is suffering from
two main problems which are: most of the students rarely check their email periodically,
which make them miss access to the communications or notification. Similarly, sometimes
internet service is not available or students are at some place where they cannot access
internet which may them miss communication. This study designed and developed a
notification system in order to be used to send the notifications direct to the students mobile
phones via SMS and thus helps to make sure that the message is delivered to all interested.
Successfully implementing this model of mobile information system which may provide
the announcement to the student at Bugema University was finished and tested by the
students to the level of 85% of the a reliable and convenient inter communication channel.
