A mobile students’ industrial work experience scheme logbook application

Abstract

Monitoring of students who are undergoing the Students’ Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) program by school-based supervisors is a difficult task because the current paper based logbook system currently employed is not adequate enough to determine how well students are undergoing the program. It is difficult for school-based supervisors to know whether students actually filled their logbooks daily, showing what they have done or whether they filled it all at the end of a long period of time which means that such entries are very likely to be fraudulent. Which is why school-supervisors try to visit students on the program to physically monitor such students, however due to distance and other logistical issues school-based supervisors are only able to visit such students once or at most twice or sometimes never. The application was developed following the incremental model. Node.Js was used for the backend, MongoDB was used as the database while React Native was used to create the front-end. This application helps school-based supervisors monitor students on the SIWES program more effectively and also makes grading and commenting on logbook entries a lot easier. It can therefore be deployed to tertiary institutions in Nigeria to assist them in the running of their respective SIWES programmes.