Notification alert system through SMS (PTPTN students) / Nora Hashim

Short Messaging Services (SMS) is a service for transmitting text messages between mobile phones and also external systems such as electronic mail, paging and voice mail systems. In today's digital age, this service has becomes a valuable and effective tool for the students in education environment. Some universities have used the SMS technology to improve the effectiveness of their services such as exam result notification, class cancellation, class changes, appointment reminders, class schedules and so forth. With SMS, students can be reached in anywhere and anytime with ensuring that message is delivered. This project called the notification alert system through SMS for PTPTN (Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional) student in UiTM. It is designed to provide announcement to the students regarding their academic billing through SMS. Text message will be sent to the students when financial department has processed the academic bill. The message will act as an announcement to the students that their academic billing has been processed. Therefore the students will be more aware of their academic billing and able to take immediate action if the information of the bill is not accurate. The major application for the system is to send message to a group of students simultaneously.