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Chapter I
PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
Knowing the grades at the end of every semester is the most
awaited and most important part of individual student, particularly
students in college. Merely because grade is one of the essential
qualities and products of school works. All their labors and sacrifices
for the past semester will be measured and determine whether a
student passes the subject or not.
It also helps the professors and instructors to guide and facilitate
students learning development. Thus, students grades must be
carefully accumulated or stored in a database and must be well
distributed to the students.
Some universities and colleges particularly Pangasinan State
University always use the traditional procedure of releasing grades;
students need to go directly to their respective college registrar in
order to acquire their progress or report card or if not students go
directly to their respective professor and claim their class card where
their grade is written. These methods of acquiring are inconvenient,
tiresome, and some instances are time-consuming, and costly. And for
Other Researchers. This study can serve as basis for their future
research and study regarding SMS Based Systems. They can use this
study as reference material that will help formulate ideas. Other
researchers or future researchers can make use of the data and
findings of the study in preparation to conduct a study of their own.
Definition of Terms
AT Commands. AT commands are instructions used to control a
modem. AT is the abbreviation of ATtention. (Developers Home, 2012)
Clerk. Refers to the assistant of the Registrar. The Registrar can have
2-3 clerks at the office.
Database.
Defined
as
systematically
organized
or
structured
(Collins, 2009)
Mobile broadband. It is the marketing term for wireless Internet
access through a portable modem, mobile phone, USB wireless
modem, or other mobile devices. (Wikipedia, 2012)
Retrieval. The process of accessing information from memory or other
storage devices. (Collins, 2009)
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SMS.
Short
Message
Service (SMS)
is
a text
messaging service
Conceptual Framework