Mobile Empowered Educational Institutions - Engaging Students, Parents & Teachers

Technology is implemented at every step of the educational institution to improve its current state and provide the technologically advanced solutions to the students as well as teachers. Mobile apps provide a way to handle various things in a smart manner. There are a number of things a mobile app can provide, ranging from promoting communication to personalized learning.

Why mobile applications?

The educational apps over the SmartPhones that the students use due to the internet access are helpful in a number of ways. Everything is available on the fingertips which include, maintaining attendance to the assignments. Also, mobile applications offer electronic learning (e-learning). E-learning software is recently opted by numerous educational institutions.

Features of mobile apps:

Features of a mobile application are innumerable. Name the requirement of the institute and it can be converted into a feature for mobile application. A mobile application facilitates everything right from online payment of fees to the keeping track of exam schedules. It also facilitates book search and the library management software.

One such application is M-OPAC, a book search application available on the play store. The application is designed by Mastersoft Solutions, a company based in Nagpur. The specialty of the app is that it is a global book search app and that it keeps students intact with the process of e-learning.

How are these apps beneficial to its beneficiaries (students, educators, staff, and parents)?

· Shares messages over the platform in a quick go

· The mobile applications can be accessed from anywhere

· Stationery items are saved and hence also takes a step further in helping the environment

· Time saved in all these processes is put to better use

· Payment of fees can also be done from the application saving the time and exertion of students of standing in long queues

· It also provides information regarding all the events scheduled in the institute

· The students and the staff members alike can mark the attendance from over the application and also apply for the leaves

· Uses cloud-based technology and hence provides the safety and security to the data

· The data can be accessed without a third party breach

· The mobile applications are cost-effective

· Provides ease of management and ignores the chaotic atmosphere

The list can go on and on. There are a number of companies that focus on developing an application as per the need of the educational institutions. These mobile app developing firms focus on the requirement and the nature of the institute. These school management apps are slowly gaining required momentum across India. The tech-savvy students are forcing the institutes to adopt the web-based solutions to all the problems.

Along with the basic features, mobile apps for educational institutions also use the various methods of e-learning, which provide the students to make the most of their time. E-learning is not new to the country and yet struggles to keep alive. However, due to the needs of the students, it is gaining the widespread popularity rather than traditional methods.