Get set for your college lessons via your mobile

The mobile phone is a revolutionary invention no doubt and whoever complained that mobiles are hampering the studies of college going students please pay attention. Few colleges in Karnataka are using cell phones to improve the academic performance of students and also to discipline them.

In a deal with colleges like Seshadripuram First Grade College, Seshadripuram PU College, and Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women; IPOMO Communications, a Bangalore-based firm has launched various applications for mobile learning. 

The tool called the IPOMO (Interactive Platform On Mobile) Campus features a learning, assessment, and administration platform. The app helps the colleges in handling internal assessment, marking attendance, profiling students and announcing results.
The tool also helps in career guidance and counseling. The company charges Rs. 400 per student per year for the application, the cost of which is transferred to the students.

Anuradha, Principal, Maharani Lakshmi Ammani College said about the mobile app, "We launched the application in July. We have given our lecturers cell phones loaded with the relevant database. The new system is down-to-earth and has reduced our anxieties. Now, we don't have to compile students' records every month. Moreover, it has considerably improved their attendance in the class."

On the students' part, they need to install the IPOMO Teachmate software in their handsets. The application also allows them to take mock tests.