10 ways mobile apps can transform education and improve student experience

Mobile is ubiquitous and has permeated every aspect of our life today enabling us to do things when we need it - quicker, better and save even more time. It spans the whole life experience and the education industry is no exception. Its impact can be deeply felt as mobile is preparing the third great wave revolution in the education industry.

Enhance education through technology

Transform education through the cloud and mobile technologies to overcome challenges and improve the achievement of students, instructors and the institution. Smartphones and tablets improves collaboration and engagement among the community of students, faculty, staff, administrators and parents. Mobile app for education can engage the community never before to improve the lives of students. Here are the 10 ways mobile apps can transform education and student experience:

1. Ease-of-access

Students, faculty and staff can get fast and easy access to information related to profiles, attendance, assignments, grades, fee payments, events, etc. right at their fingertips.

2. Create student groups & improve engagement

Create student profiles with biographic and demographic information, photos, contact details, etc. to improve campus-wide collaboration and response rate. Engage students, instructors, parents and the community to create an interactive education environment through notifications, messages, chats, discussion forum, and social networking.

3. Real-time tracking

Track all your activities and schedule to get real time information. The mobile app lets you know exactly on attendance, timetable, grades, news, events, library, transport, hostel and more.  

4. Seamless learning

Search and share various resources including assignments, syllabus, lesson plans, course evaluation forms to students from anywhere in a seamless learning environment to achieve goals.

5. Track progress with Reports & Analytics

Dashboard reports and charts within the app provide a mobile-optimized user experience. It gives key performance metrics on various academic processes to help administrators make informed decisions.

6. View assignments & grades

Teachers can allocate assignments to students, review them, submit grades with comments and share the feedback with students and parents. Monitor the student’s progress and evaluate the class performance.

7. Develop problem-solving skills

Mobile app help students improve their problem-solving skills and critical thinking with quick access to accurate and up-to-date information, generate images and charts, and make decisions.

8. Event scheduling & notifications

Create schedules and events for the academic session using the calendar and send instant notifications to students, faculty, staff and parents via email, SMS alerts and push notifications.

9. Strengthen information security

Manage information security and risks inside all the academic data to create role-based secure access and user permission rights for different groups of the institution and prevent sensitive information leaks.

10. Offline data storage

The mobile app provides offline storage capabilities which enable students, faculty and staff to store and retrieve files and documents such as assignments and assessments locally on the mobile device without syncing to the mobile service.