SmartHipona: Distributed Computer System to Record the Academic Performance in Real Time

Abstract

In this paper is presented the design and implementation of a distributed computer system to record the attendances and grades of students. With this platform teachers generate automatically the official grading format of their subjects; education authorities get reports of the academic performance in real time and students check their progress everywhere and every time. Cloud computing technologies are implemented to develop the system, students and teachers access by Google spreadsheets and education authorities using a web app. Spreadsheets synchronize subject data with a software artifact of Data Analysis. That communication uses REST API methods and storage the information in relational databases for further processing. Every spreadsheet is created using high performance computer techniques. Therefore, the creation time of those files is reduced by 93.7%. Considering that a regular school will need approximately 512 online spreadsheets during a year, that online documents will be available in around 1.24 minutes. With this digital platform is proposed the basis to create a Smart City in the academic area because the information is useful to improve the decision-making process of the government.