Tablet-based tracker for in-Classroom use.

Tracking pupils mid lesson is hard. I am sure that as I become more accomplished as a teacher I can keep all this stuff in my memory, but I like objective records and I like React Apps. This therefore is a solution, orginally designed to support my pre-cataract surgery eyesight deficit, which gives me a list of students to call, to award credits or decredits to, to record any disciplinary actions or warnings which I might have to give and to record notes for each student. It also has flags to warn me of students who might need some kind of additional support, so I can check their confidential record and getn it right. It is designed to work on a tablet (such as my Surface Pro or an iPad) in landscape mode.

Here are some screenshots:

The main timetable page. This is test data, so don’t think I only work half the week! On each page there is a real-time clock, mainly because so many classrooms I am in have broken clocks and I want to just be able to glance at my tablet and see the time quickly.

This is the main in-class screen. It shows on the left the list of students to call. When they are called, and I record that with the “Call” button, they are moved to the bottom of the list. The red number indicates the number of times they have been called that lesson.

The + and – buttons add or subtract credits, and if I have a disciplinary issue, I can record the status of that by clicking on the discipline status. I can make any additional notes for each lesson and each one is timestamped and added to my student record.

Unfortunately in this scenario, I have had to give a minor warning to Velma to stop looking at Tik Tok in the lesson and so I have marked the first disciplinary stage and made a note in her record.

At the end of the lesson, the number of times called, the number of credits awarded and the disciplinary status at the end of the lesson is recorded in the student notes.

This gives me a record of cumultive achievement and will contribute to the reports on the students that I write.

For each class I can allocate a couple of images of the classroom layout for my seating plan. This is better and bigger than the ClassCharts one which is almost illegible.

(Obviously, I was just using any image I had to hand for testing)

In this Edit Class screen I can add students using a combination of search and a dropdown

When managing student records I can see a summary of all their notes (again useful for report-writing)

Given that a College might have a thousand students, the search facility is useful.

This project is uploaded to github at: https://github.com/SimonRundell/ClassAssistant

If anyone would like to try it out, then please let me know. I can provide the facility for a very very low price (I’m talking a tenner a year) or you can compile and implement it at your school for free. I’d be available to consult if you needed any help, support or advice on that.