SMARTCHECKER: REAL TIME MONITORING AND TRACKING STUDENT’S CLASS ATTENDANCE USING WIRELESS PDA
Maral A. Mustafa, W. Aezwani · 2007
to pocket sized computer devices that make computing tasks more portable and flexible by being small enough to fit into one’s pocket and mobile to be used anywhere. This paper describes the innovative platform, called SmartChecker that integrates mobile technologies into teaching and learning environment for the particularly tracking and monitoring of student’s class attendance. SmartChecker, exploits the use of personal digital assistance (PDA) to provide mobile and instant graphical display. It also furnishes reports and progress tracks for determining student class attendance baselines, and improves the quality of monitoring and data captured technique, data-driven decision making and school accountability. SmartChecker is a new application was developed for data entry and retrieving all the student information using PDA. The software was developed and stored in server could be access using wireless PDA by teachers. The system automatically keeps the student’s record for that class and also will calculate all the attendance for those particular days. SmartChecker serves both the school administrators and teachers. We have also highlighted and proposed solutions on specific technical and design issues relating to hand held devices, such as information display on small screen, information security, and the overall system architecture. 1