Automated Student Enrollment & Administration Tracking Application
Improve productivity of application that collects, tracks, reviews, allows additions and corrections, routes, and approves enrollments electronically
Case Study: Improving productivity is a goal on every company’s to-do list. Intertech’s team was hired to assist an educational technology collaborative in developing an application that would allow parents to enter student and school choice information online. At the same time, it would also let school administrators track, review, add to, correct, route, and approve student enrollment applications all electronically.
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Technology Used
AngulatJS
RESTful
MongoDB (NoSQL Database)
.NET
Bootstrap
Methodology
Agile / Scrum
Project
Student Enrollment Application
Project Requirements
Student enrollment can be a time-consuming and manual process, requiring parents to drive to a central location or even several schools to enroll their children. With manual process comes errors (inaccurate, incomplete, or illegible data). Entering in information manually can also be time-consuming and costly to school districts where staff may be required to work overtime during peak seasons, adding additional pressure.
Result
The online enrollment system allows parents to electronically enroll their children in various Minnesota school districts, eliminating the need for parents to complete multiple forms, along with mailing or delivering them to one or more school districts and offices. For school districts and administrators, the system reduces the errors in the information provided by parents, improves the readability of the information, and captures additional information that schools can use to get more community education investment from the state. With these improvements, schools can save thousands of dollars each year in reduced complexity and staff overtime costs.
Overview
To eliminate the time-consuming challenge of manually working student enrollment, Intertech was brought in on the project shortly after the project was presented to its first school district. As part of the pilot, numerous changes and bugs were identified. Following an iterative development process, Intertech assisted in implementing the new features, fixing identified issues, and recommending the best (development and deployment) practices for the second phase of the application’s pilot – in which several more school districts would be participating.
Intertech consultants worked closely with the application manager and development staff at the client’s headquarters to help build a modern, single-page application using AngularJS, RESTful web services, and a NoSQL database MongoDB. The site includes user registration (using OWIN and Windows Identity Foundation) and a wizard that walks the user through the enrollment process (using Windows Workflow Foundation). The site makes creative use of Angular features to allow the wizard steps to be completely customized for each school district. In addition, the use of Angular UI states gives the site the ability to provide the user with clean, bookmark-able URLs. Finally, the site uses responsive design techniques and libraries (Bootstrap, CSS3) to support a wide variety of devices.
“I appreciated the work [Intertech] did for us and I hope we can work with [them] again.”
Client Employee
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