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Four Methods of Tracking Students Visit at Off-Site
Tutoring Sessions
Chenxiao WangStudent Learning CenterUniversity of Oklahoma
Student Learning Center at OU
Free Tutoring with PLA and Professor/GTA
Student Success Series
Online Tutoring
Free Study places and computer lab
Student Learning Center at OU
21 places all over the campus.
21,000 visits for 2012-2013 academic year
The place can be categorized as “Center” and “Satellite”
Center example
Satellite example
217
2,138
Purpose for tracking students visit
Collect data of utilization of our center• Internal reporting to admin• Justify budgets• Pinpoint areas of weakness
2,691
Number of clients for previous 3 semester
Methods for Tracking Students Visits
Laptop/Desktop Sign in sheet
Magnetic-Stripe Card Reader
TutorTrac on an iPad
Laptop/Desktop
• Accessible to all features.
• Can handle burst visiting by attaching usb card reader.
• Normal way to use TutorTrac
• Hard to Transport
• Depends on the condition of the facility
• Cost is higher
Sign in Sheet
• Easy to carry
• Facility independent – useable everywhere
• No cost
• Easy to lose
• Hard to validate hand writing data
• Extra human labor required for data entry
• Easy to carry
• Facility independent – useable everywhere
• Login and logout fast, able to handle burst visits.
• Hard to validate data
• Extra human labor required
• Sometime depends on battery life.
• Function Limits
Portable Magnetic-Stripe Card Reader
• Combine all the advantages above
• No post session labor needed
• Data is more often correct
• No function limits
• A little bit costly but can be optimized
• Currently third-party app is needed
• Wifi required
TutorTrac on the iPad
Our Equipment Costs for Tracking Students Visits
Laptop/Desktop$500-800
Sign in sheet$0
Magnetic-Stripe Card Reader
$600
TutorTrac on an iPad$520
iPad: Behind the Scenes
Studen
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Tuto
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Student ID read from card
swiper attached to the ipad.
iPad: Behind the Scenes
• This link is where TutorTrac used to verify and login the student.
• The parameter findstud specify the student ID to be verified.
• Thus if we can read the student ID from the ipad and send to this link,that make it possible to login the students on the mobile devices
iPad: Behind the Scenes
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Chenxiao WangStudent Learning CenterUniversity of Oklahoma
Four Methods of Tracking Students Visit at Off-Site
Tutoring Sessions
Chenxiao WangStudent Learning CenterUniversity of Oklahoma