SmartCaring Application for Twins’ Ark Montessori and Day Care

Abstract

Twins’ Ark Montessori and day care center is located in Bandarawela and it continues the operations since 2013. It offers child care services for the kids who are not yet qualified by the age for entering grade one in the formal schools. Around sixty kids are registered in Twins’ Ark Montessori and day care center currently. Also, experienced and qualified teachers are conducting kindergarten programs. All the staff of Twins’ Ark and most of the parents face many difficulties due to insufficient information about the kids since working parents are very busy when dropping-off and pickingup their kids from daycare centers. Because of their busyness, they will lose their kids’ most important information that they need to know. Information about meals, Snacks, toileting, activities, observations, payments, medications, kids ‘moods are some of the most important information that they need to know on a daily basis. Smart Caring Application was developed for the purpose of bridging the information gap between parents and staff of Twins’ Ark Montessori and daycare center. It is a web-based, mobile-responsive software which provides features and facilities for the kids’ parents and teachers so that they can interactively connect with the daycare. Parents can receive kid’s information and reminders via this system while teachers can send notices to the parents easily. For the successful completion of system development, it was selected agile approach as software development life cycle model. In addition to that Unified Modeling Language (UML) was used for the system designing and different tools such as wire-frame, creately,Star UML were used to draw the diagrams. The system implementation was done using MVC architecture and the boostrap framework was used for developing the system with HTML, CSS, and JS. Also, PHP was used as a serverside scripting language for the development of this web based system and the development environment was created using XAMPP with Apache server and MySQL server. The project was completed successfully so that the client would be able to continue their operation efficiently and effectively.