Abstract
Background/Objectives: Academic tutoring is sought to aid students academically, keep them in school, and eventually earn a degree aside from the learning they get from a typical classroom setting. Academic institutions somehow start programs for peer tutorial sessions among students, but matching of tutees with tutors takes time especially for complex and complicated topics. It even brings a security concern about where students are conducting tutorials. Hence, this study aims to design a tutor appointment system with location tracking feature to give students a more efficient and safer tutorial experience. Methods: GrabTutor is composed of a mobile and web application that communicates through a cloud server. The tutees find tutors through the mobile application. The system generates a unique barcode for each tutorial appointment. A barcode scanner is embedded in the mobile application accessible to the tutor. Once the tutor scans, the system will trigger the timer and sends GPS coordinates to the server to track the location. The location will be represented by a marker on the map of the moderator\'s web application. Findings: Based on the results of the usability tests, the system easily matched tutees to the right tutors. The GPS monitoring system was proven to be a helpful tool to ease the risk of students having to go somewhere else to meet up with a tutor. Novelty/Applications: The proposed system enables quick and efficient matching of tutors to tutees and integrates GPS information of students within the campus during the conduct of the tutorial to track their whereabouts for a more secure tutorial experience. Keywords: Tutor appointment; location tracking; barcode; GPS; security
Highlights
While teachers remain to be the primary facilitator of learning in every level of education, peer tutoring among students of same age brackets have received positive reviews from educators all around the world as an interventionCalo et al / Indian Journal of Science and Technology 2020;13(19):1955–1964 to support student learning outside the typical classroom setup
The academic support of schools provides tutorials to students struggling in a course and students having difficulties keeping up grades to maintain scholarship
Students who would like to avail of the tutorial service of the school can make an appointment through emails to their academic support personnel(3)
Summary
While teachers remain to be the primary facilitator of learning in every level of education, peer tutoring among students of same age brackets have received positive reviews from educators all around the world as an interventionCalo et al / Indian Journal of Science and Technology 2020;13(19):1955–1964 to support student learning outside the typical classroom setup. While teachers remain to be the primary facilitator of learning in every level of education, peer tutoring among students of same age brackets have received positive reviews from educators all around the world as an intervention. Many online tutor appointment or scheduling applications have been coming out for the convenience of prospective tutors and tutees. Students who would like to avail of the tutorial service of the school can make an appointment through emails to their academic support personnel(3). Even tutorial programs are offered; still the common approach to get a tutor is to personally go to the office of the student affairs or academic support personnel or to make an appointment provided online or through email and text messages. Some schools provide greater academic services to students by centralizing all tutors in one location with appointment based tutoring(4)
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