Actually I finished my undergrad last December [2006]. I was doing my internship at Datasoft from September’06 to December ’06. In the mean time I got an offer from my university to join there as an information systems analyst. It’s a great pleasure to get like this offer. I had taken a decision to join there. The responsibility of an information systems analyst is to making all the necessary development & maintances of web application and all kinds of network supports. At that time i didn’t know anything about PHP. Usually in university life, we were doing lots of programming with C/C++, Java, ASP etc but except PHP which is widely used scripting language for web application development. I remembered, in my senior project, I was working on parallel programming using JAVA RMI. It’s a huge work, I think but after finishing my senior project, I didn’t get any scope to use one line of code from that project. Okay I think may be I am going irrelevant to my topics. I will write those at later in some other head.
Now, come to the title, actually this was my third project after joining IUB. In the end of July, we took a plan that we [khalid bhai, sujan bhai & me] were working on distance learning issues. We were trying to establish some ingredient for e-learning in Bangladesh. Then we were doing some study work on that topic and finally we found our self that cell phone is most useable media for establish e-learning in Bangladesh. At present, Bangladesh has approximately 15 million 30 million cellular phone subscribers. then we were in big trouble?? How can we integrate cell phones in our educational systems? We decided to use cell phone to improve feedback process in our educational systems. How was it? Students can appear their exam using cell phone. On exam date they had to come to exam hall and they just get question paper nothing else. He or she must have a cell phone which is very common in our country. And they are submitting their answer through SMS (Short Message Service). Within a few seconds he or she gets their result via reply message. This is most instant feedback process ever done in educational systems in Bangladesh. We are proud to implement such a process in our university. It is not easy to developed but explain. So far IUB walks one step ahead from others. For pilot project we had taken one of the sections of MAT211 course in last autumn semester[2007]. We have also web based feed backing systems. for visit cilck here. It is keep all the record which delivered to the student.
When we took a decision to use sms for taking exam, we were study hard to implement this. We were very excited to develop such systems. We found we have to use a SMS GETWAY for broadcasting SMS. How we gonna manage this GETWAY. :) At that time we got a strong help from one content provider company named “SSD-TECK“. They gave us a share of their SMS GETWAY and we were assigning a number i.e 2580 which is working for any operator in Bangladesh. I want to say, it was really an interesting one that I did in my short development life. You can try it now.
Goto your message option write “iub hello world” and sent to 2580 number from any cellular connection in Bangladesh.
And let’s see how much smart it is. at the end this semester[Autumn 2007] we can say that it is very good ingredient for establish e-learning in Bangladesh.
i believe it’s a pretty easy and cost effective to implementing automation in your organization through SMS. Currently we are thinking about this. From this semester we will publish our school’s course grade through SMS. It is very common; we have lots of students who are living outside Dhaka. After finishing their final exam they are not staying anymore at Dhaka. When grade will publishing they can not get it directly, they try to find out a friend who is staying in Dhaka and over the phone they try to get it. So isn’t it good system that he or she just sent a SMS like “IUB MYGRADE” and sent to 2580 and reply message it shows like “MAT211 – A, CSC405 – A+” etc. we can also manage notice board systems via SMS.
when i was reading first para, in my head i was like “this is something i really wanted to read!”- but topic turned into another great thing. as an IUBIAN i feel proud that we got some thinkers like Khalid bhai, Shujan bhai and You. Hope this works for all of the students. Great post
Its really nice to hear that , it is implented at IUB .
Good job jewel,Khalid Vai and Sujan Vai!!!
Keep on your ways to Publish the semester result via SMS.
WoW!!! I must say that its a great thinking. And this will take our university one step head from other universities. Full credit to all of you. I am proud that i was in touch with you and i am an IUBIAN.
Yeah! it is a great idea. If it can be implemented then IUB will be a model University for the whole Bangladesh. Try hard to make it more interesting and useful for the students and also for the teachers. I hope all the best for Jewel, Khalid Bhai, and Shujan Bhai.
Best Wishes
Soss
OH Hoooo, Forget to give my profile.
I am Imran, my friends call me soss. I was also a student of IUB and a very good friend of Jewel. I have completed my graduation in September, 2006. I am working at Standard Chartered Bank sinch December, 2006. Hoping all the best to all of them who are trying to de something better and different.
Best wishes.
Soss
Hi Md.Mosharraf Hossain [Jewel].
I read your article on SMS and found it quite interesting. What do you prefer to be called Jewel or Mosharraf. I have a couple of questions that I wonder if you be kind enough to answer.
1. In your test example , it read like a short answer was sent back to the server and then the server transmitted back a response to the sender. Then the next question was addresed by the student and the server again responded back to the user. In my mind this was not a Push -Pull . but could be obtained by the student simply answering a series of answers one at at a time. I am thinking that if the question was sent to the student via the Push aspect then the stundent would respond to the question with an answer then the next question would be sent this would be an example ofthe push -pull. My particular rationale for the question relates to whether the push pull capability of SMS could be adopted to be more like a conversatuion between two parties where party A provides a question and Party B provides and answer and Party A provides another question that is selected based on parties B answer and so on. Is this vaible with the Push Pull capability of SMS
i am an under graduate… i wanted to know how to use the sms pulling software in order to process the senders smss on the computer