An Enhanced Result Processing and Checking System for Public Universities using 2FA and TOTP

Abstract

Various universities in developing countries have made several attempts to develop reliable solution that will centrally process student's result and convey same to these students in a seamless manner. There have been several complaints from students on issues bordering on missing scores, wrong computations, secured access to scores and results. We explored the result processing and checking challenges presently faced by public universities in Nigeria, and implemented an enhanced online system of students' result processing and result checking, which combated these challenges. Microsoft ASP.Net, JavaScript, XML, Java, HTML, CSS, JSON, JQuery, Web-API and Android technologies were used for this implementation. This method provides unambiguous identification of users by using two-factor authentication-username/password and time-based one-time password. Enhanced online result processing and checking system provides a platform for easy course registration by students, result collation, grading and publishing by lecturers, result checking by students and management decisions by school authorities alongside Exams department. An evaluation of the new enhanced online system proved that it is more efficient than the existing system. The new enhanced online result processing and checking system has higher quality of information (92%), speed of access (93%), secured (91%), ease of use (92.5%) and low consumption of time (2%). The financial analysis yielded a positive net present value (NPV) and a very impressive return on investment (ROI).