Ellucian Attendance Tracker
Ellucian Attendance Tracker from Christian Larsen
Ellucian Attendance Tracker

Taking attendance is part of nearly every school teacher's classroom routine. Ellucian's Attendance Tracker is a tablet-based application that was designed to make this daily task easier, faster, and more convenient.

Since this was one of the first applications for the Ellucian UX team to build for a tablet, we were interested to see what advantages a teacher could gain using a tablet for this task. So, as designers, we compared the paper/pencil routine vs a digital routine and looked for opportunities where technology could speed up the task. We had to familiarize ourselves with mobile patterns and see where these patterns matched a teacher's behavior. To get that feedback, the Ellucian development team worked with a group of geographically dispersed teachers to learn, review, and test the progression of this application.

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Tablet view of Attendance Tracker. The key value was giving teaches the ability to take role on their tablet.
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Aside from the convenience of taking role from a mobile tablet, our customers still requested a need to take role at their desktop machines. This required us to think about how the same job could be done from someone's permanent workstation.
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Ellucian Attendance Tracker

Taking attendance is part of nearly every school teacher's classroom routine. Ellucian's Attendance Tracker is a tablet-based application that was designed to make this daily task easier, faster, and more convenient.

Since this was one of the first applications for the Ellucian UX team to build for a tablet, we were interested to see what advantages a teacher could gain using a tablet for this task. So, as designers, we compared the paper/pencil routine vs a digital routine and looked for opportunities where technology could speed up the task. We had to familiarize ourselves with mobile patterns and see where these patterns matched a teacher's behavior. To get that feedback, the Ellucian development team worked with a group of geographically dispersed teachers to learn, review, and test the progression of this application.

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Christian Larsen
Director of UX at MRM Salt Lake City, UT