Case Study: Realtime Attendance Processing System (RAPS)
Overview
IOPEN stepped in to produce a realtime attendance processing system for Burnside High School and the
Christchurch College of Computing, after another company had discarded the project into the 'too hard' basket.
While the brief was to provide a fast, intranet based, attendance processing system which would work
with the school's MUSAC learning management system, IOPEN produced a
modular system that could potentially import and export data to any learning management system.
As well as entering the days attendance data, Burnside and Christchurch College of Computing staff are able to get
realtime reports on student attendance.
Key Technologies
- HTML
- Relational Database Support (currently PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- MUSAC flat file -> Relational importer
- Zope
Screenshots
RAPS Homepage
Interested in using RAPS technology in your project or school?
One example of a possible use of the RAPS technology is the MUSAC to RAPS importer and RAPS to MUSAC exporter.
We have refined these processes so that the data imported/exported is significantly more
robust than original MUSAC data, making the importer a perfect extension for an existing learning
management system. It would be straightforward to modify the importer/exporter to work with a different
relational schema, or even a completely different data structure. The importer/exporter produces data
consistent with the New Zealand Ministry of Education requirements for data collection.
While IOPEN is not actively marketing RAPS, we are interested in talking with you about
licencing key RAPS technologies for your project or school. If you have a project in mind,
please contact us today.
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