An Alert Grading System for School by Using SMS

need to strengthen their children with high level of education. Parents need to keep
track and aware on how well their children perform in the learning process. Having
good interactions with children, providing adequate learning programs and nurturing
mental and physical strength are some strategies could be used by parents in
organizing their children. The objective of this study is to develop a prototype of an
alert grading system specifically for school. The system integrated with Short
Message Services (SMS), which is act as a medium to alert parents about student's
performance in trial exam of Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM). Presently, parents are
quite busy since they have less time to pay attention on children's learning
performance. Therefore, the idea of this project is to increase parents' awareness
about students' achievement in learning process. The scope of this study is ranging
from the students' performance on SPM trial exam and the usage of SMS as a
medium to alert parents. Besides, the SMS contains only the summary of students'
achievements. For project work, Dual Development Methodology is used as
methodology, which is comprises of two parts. There are research and development
parts. Functional and integration testing used to ensure the system is wellfunctioning.
SMS can be successfully sent from the system as an alert. As a
conclusion, the system managed to alert parent on their children's achievement in
trial exam and will make a contribution to the development of education field.
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