Volume 16 , Issue 2 , PP: 137-146, 2025 | Cite this article as | XML | Html | PDF | Full Length Article
Mohammed Kamal Nsaif 1 * , Abdullah A. Rashid 2 , Haifaa J. Muhasin 3 , Wisam A. Shukur 4 , Amna Y. Muhammad 5 , Firas A. Abdullatif 6
Doi: https://doi.org/10.54216/JCIM.160210
Certificate generation systems play an important role in higher education institutions because they prepare certified students for the job market and induce organizational efficiency. In this context, the College of Education for Pure Science / Ibn Al-Haitham (CEPSIH) does not, however, have its own electronic system. This point motivates us to conduct this monitoring situation as a case. We designed and implemented the Ibn al-Haitham Certificate System (IHCS) as an automated certificate generation database system at the CEPSIH. This case study aims to put this system in a real educational environment into a valuable context, where the successfully implemented system meets the objectives of CEPSIH, illustrates the major bottlenecks, the overwhelming challenges, and the negative impact resulting from a time-consuming, manual certificate issue process at the CEPSIH. The authorized staff members will generate certificates using IHCS database server with a user-friendly interface. Users (or the student graduators) will go through online panel and register before logging into the IHCS. Registered users authenticate themselves, after which new user accounts can be used to request the graduation certificate from IHCS database and then generated it automatically. To implement the IHCS, it was necessary to collect data from paper records and old Excel sheets which belong to more than 35000 graduates since 1980s. The collected data should be converted to CSV files which we designed in particular form in order to be imported to the IHCS database. Data verification and validation are conducted in specific manners within IHCS to ensure that all stored data are correct without any errors and meet certain standards of the CEPSIH. All graduate information stored in the IHCS database are encrypted by AIS algorithm using encryption key of 256 bit.
Certificate generation , Graduate database , Data verification , Data validation , Generate e-certificate , Encrypted relational database
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