Back2classroom.app Spring 2021 Release

Overall improvements

New benefits to students and instructors:

Calendar — it is now embedded in the app and allows clear visibility relevant to each week/date courses.
Notifications can now be supported within the application rather than only through external apps such as Google mail.
Health-pass and Health Docs showcasing the CDC vaccination card and associated barcode. Everyone that has been fully vaccinated has unrestricted access to socially distanced classrooms.
Each user has a profile that they can edit.
Help is now within the app rather than as an external web guide.

More benefits specific to students’ needs:

Students can switch to online a specific course. They can switch back to in-person as many times as they would like. The system will not schedule them while a course is switched to online.
Each course info is now decorated with colors that indicate its status.
Timeline — now students can see all past activity from managing their class attendance.
Waiting-list — now students can see the classes that they have been wait-listed.
Statistics — students can see their attendance statistics aggregated across courses.
QR code scanning is now supported by a PIN.

More features specifically for instructors:

Instructors can now manually mark a student as attended.
The list of students in the roster has now embedded very clear status information per student.
Instructors can download student attendance to their laptop.
Instructors have access to aggregated per-course analytics.

For the Institution Administration:

We are able to now accommodate a cohort based attendance policy in addition to the policy where the app scheduling algorithms determine an in-person class attendance.
We are now able to accommodate multiple merged courses that convene into the same classroom.
As always all policies are controlled by the university and guarantee an equal opportunity for in-person attendance for all students.