A Smart Phone Integrated Smart Classroom

Abstract

Smart phones are playing a vital role in our day-today life, especially in the field of education. A student can use his personal smart phone for carrying his softcopies of his lecture notes (as storage device), for reading the lecture notes (display device), even it is a complete encyclopaedia due to the technological inventions in smart phone area. Even though smart phones have all these educational advantages, mobile phones are banned in many educational institutions as students misuse the phones during the class, by chatting with friends, playing games... This project involves research and survey to identify how usage of mobile phones at education institutions can be made under the control of authorities and how 1000s of lecture hours can be saved in a year using this device. We propose a mobile application which will help institution authorities to control the students' mobile phones and attendance will be taken by the students itself for saving the time of taking attendance. Students will be forced to run this application as their attendance will be marked through this application. This will also save the lecture time to some extend and will reduce the chances of students marking proxy attendances. Authorities can configure the list of white listed applications students can use in their phones when they are inside the campus.