Education · Multinational
A school management system that brings school administration, teachers and parents closer together
Project summary
- Industry
- Education
- Company size
- Multinational
- Services
The problem
The goal was to bring together and connect three school audiences: the administration, the teachers and the students' parents. That called for a school management system that brought all three together, with access on the web and on phones.
What was agreed
- Prioritized scope
- A school management system in three integrated pieces: the web application, the mobile app and the server.
What was delivered
School administration, teachers and students' parents stay connected in the same school management system, with access on the web and through an app.
How it works
The web application is accessed in the browser, and the mobile app on the phone. The server runs behind both and keeps them on the same platform.
The technology, in plain words
- PHP: a programming language made to run on servers and widely used in websites and web systems. It was one of the project’s technologies.
- PhoneGap: an Adobe tool, based on Apache Cordova, for building mobile apps with web technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). It was the basis of the system’s mobile app.
- JavaScript: the programming language of the web, which gives pages behavior in the browser and also runs on servers. It is also the language of apps built with PhoneGap.
How it went
Assessment
At the start
An initial conversation to understand the client's request and problem.
Discovery Sprint
Before building
The problem was understood and the scope defined.
Development
Between 2016 and 2017
Built in incremental releases throughout the project, not all at the end.
Support and continuous improvement
After going live
The system then moved into support and maintenance.
Technical details
Technologies used in this project
- PHP
- PhoneGap
- JavaScript
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