Design of a Mobile Application for Providing Information to Advanced Level Students in Uganda

Education is the key to success in the existing world. Providing necessary information to students at the right stage of education that determines their future is useful to students, simplifies work, and reduces responsibilities for educators. Unfortunately, the existing ways of providing information to A'Level students in Uganda are unmodernized, and thus, important information is inadequately accessible to the students. Because of this, most students make uninformed decisions and study without focus. A prototype mobile application was designed to enable A'Level students to access necessary information about qualifications requirements, study materials, subjects, schools, etc. A rule-based method was also used to help students choose subjects that match their desired career options. The user interface design process followed a User-Centered Design approach to meet the students' requirements. SPSS software was used for analyzing the data, and results were obtained. The evaluation of the design showed that 95.76% of Advanced Level students who were participants agreed with the designed application prototype. This result indicated that A'Level students are interested in using mobile application technology to access information. This prototype design will ease students' getting information and ease educators' work, thereby saving the time wasted in attending to students physically to deliver all the necessary information.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.2.2.7