Digital Attendance (API)

Digital Attendance is an open-source project supported by UNICEF Kenya through a collaboration with Computing for Development Lab (C4DLab), University of Nairobi. The platform allows tracking of individual attendance of students in schools.

• Supports offline & online mobile versions
• Open source Ionic 2 Application already built
• Open source Dashboard in Angular2 already built.

Features!

• Enrolment of students
• Registration of classes and streams
• Registration of counties
• Registration of schools
• Registration of teachers
• Record attendance for students
• Promotion of students (stream-based)
• Sorting of students in schools (e.g. moving of streams)
• Exporting attendance data per school
• Registration and assignment of schools to partner organizations or counties (government agencies)

Dependancies

Digital Attendance uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• [AngularJS] - HTML enhanced for web apps!
• [markdown-it] - Markdown parser done right. Fast and easy to extend.
• [node.js] - evented I/O for the backend
• DjangoREST Framework - Development of the API
• Django - Python Framework
• Ionic 2 - Development of the mobile Application

And of course Digital Attendance itself is open source with a public repository on GitHub.

Installation

Digital Attendance requires Python 2.7 to run.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

Clone the public repo and create a virtual environment.

$ pip install
$ ./manage runserver

Verify the api by navigating to your server address in your preferred browser.

127.0.0.1:8000

Contribute

Want to contribute? Great! Get in touch with the development team.

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License

MIT