An Integrated Approach for Management of Activities, Documents and Evaluation of the Learning Process with a Mobile Component

In the past years the technology took a big turn and started to enter almost any common field of interest and activity. Motivated by this, a lot of applications were developed to overcome the time issue, in order to be able to decrease the amount of time involved using traditional work style. In this paper the design and implementation of The School Information Management System (SIMS). The main idea of the system, was to offer support for an improved communication between teachers and parents and to help teachers and headmasters to manage their daily administrative tasks. Complementary, the evaluation of the students and teachers is achievable using the system, and the management of various activities is also possible using specific features of the system. By offering a smart UI, the users are able to resolve various tasks in a time – effective way. The system is structured in a web application and a mobile application, both sharing a common data storage. SIMS was designed as a distributed system and relays on the Java EE – the Enterprise solution offered by Sun, also the mobile application developed in Android was designed and developed with the main purpose to offer access everywhere and every time to stored data of interest for parents from the educational process: student grades and absences . General Terms Distributed Systems, Information System, Web application, Mobile application