Designing of a Mobile Application for the Pre-Admission Process of a Vocational School

Abstract

The Department of Education of Puerto Rico (DE), has begun to implement and improve its administrative processes using web technology. Platforms such as SIE (Student Information System), a system that collects, manages and stores all data related to students and the academic offer in schools, allows the teacher to perform tasks in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. Although the DE has made an effort to implement web technology, the PR school’s still does the preadmission, admission and enrollment processes in the traditional way of collecting information using the paper. Process that in the case of the Vocational School Miguel Such is extremely tedious and archaic, where much of the data collected is redundant and poorly processed due to lack of standardization and protocols in the processes. This often resulted in duplication of work and the incurrence of incorrect information causing the pre-admission process to be affected. The implementation of mobile technology through the development of an app, could speed up the preadmission process by guaranteeing the collection of data in an orderly manner without redundancy and duplication of work. Key Terms - Cocoapods, DE, Firebase, iOS, Pre-Admission, Vocational Miguel Such, Xcode.