Implementación de una aplicación móvil para gestión de portafolios académicos de la Facultad de Ingeniería Civil usando la metodología swirl

Abstract

La evaluación del prototipo desarrollado se basó en los estándares de calidad de la norma ISO IEC9126 que trata acerca de la funcionalidad, eficiencia, compatibilidad de los sistemas. One of the tasks that every university student must carry out is the preparation of the academic portfolio. Its radical importance in that, being a method of learning, teaching and evaluation, it allows at the end of each course to observe results were the weaknesses and strengths during that Period, resulting in a continuous improvement of the same. As it is a compilation of all the works and a daily monitoring of all the classes taught for each subject of an academic period, its preparation process can become somewhat tedious for the student, in addition to the fact that there is a presentation format that must be follow and that not many students fully comply by not respecting the guidelines established for their correct presentation. The use of mobile applications is on the rise, because more and more users choose to use applications on their cell phones in order to carry out their activities or simply distract themselves from their daily life, making them now indispensable. Thanks to this, the development of applications as a business has increased in its production, seeking to satisfy the needs of this audience in order to help improve their productivity and user experience, especially those who make use of mobile applications for work or educational purposes. That is why, as a resolution to this problem, a mobile application was developed in order to improve the process of preparing the students' academic portfolio, giving a quick solution to formatting problems and the heavy task of organizing documents. The mobile application was developed mainly under the Flutter multiplatform framework, other tools were also used such as jQuery, NodeJS, Flask (back-end), the SWIRL methodology as a development metric and finally as database sources to PostgreSQL and MongoDB. These databases are hosted on their own server under a public address to access this information through the use of APIs developed for this project. Within the mobile application, if the user is a student, they will be able to log in and enroll in the subject s that they take during that academic Period, then they will be able to access the portfolio format automatically created for that subject, where the metacognitive journals will be organized and ready for the student to write the corresponding information on them. The use of notifications through Firebase will be present to remind the student that they must carry out the journal corresponding to that day. Once the portfolio is completed, it can be downloaded in .rar format so that it can be sent and used. Regarding whether the user is a teacher, he can assign a registration key to the subject taught by him so that students can enroll. The teacher will be able to download the completed portfolios of all the students enrolled in their subject. The evaluation of the developed prototype was based on the quality standards of the ISO IEC9126 standard that deals with the functionality, efficiency, and compatibility of the systems.