Model of Mobile Information System for Bugema University Dean of Student Office in Uganda

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.