DESIGN OF COMPUTERISED TUTOR SYSTEM: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET

Student in tertiary institution suffers a lot of setbacks in external exams due to the type of teaching system which they receive. They don’t have access to the internet and lack knowledge of what is obtainable in the society, in view of this, this research was established to design and implement an E-learning tutoring system for teaching introduction to internet in Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, Nasarawa State with specific objectives to; facilitate the development of information technology and enhance the quality of learning and teaching; provide alternative way of attaining education; improve effectiveness and efficiency of learning. The programming languages used are PHP and MySQL for the backend, while JavaScript, HTML and CSS was for the frontend to design a web base e-learning system. The concept of system analysis and design utilised was; define a prototype system requirement, also evaluate alternatives to existing prototypes, and perform research analysis to determine the needs of end-users. We conclude that E-learning has added a lot of advantages to the training institutes as it teaches student and test their knowledge and add a lot of advantages to education standard as it reduces examination malpractice in our country, and as such should be use as part of a teaching standard in education to enable the student acquire more knowledge.