QR smart IDs
One card per student, scanned at the door, no register to carry or lose.
Education · School management
AppMan
School management, in the palm of your hand.
AppMan set out to replace the paper that runs a school. Attendance registers, test papers, and the phone calls home all became one platform, on the web and in a pocket.
The challenge
A school runs on records that are easy to lose and hard to check. Registers are taken on paper, results are transcribed by hand, and parents hear about a problem long after it happened. Anything replacing that has to be quicker than the paper it replaces, or nobody uses it.
The work · 3 moves
What we actually did.
Not a logo and a landing page. A full effort across strategy, brand, content and engineering — here’s the play-by-play.
- Mobile app
- Web app
- EdTech
- 01
Attendance in a second
Smart ID cards and a QR scan take a register in the time it takes to walk through a door, with the record written as it happens.
- 02
Testing on the computer
Papers are set, sat and marked in the platform, so results exist the moment a test ends rather than a week later.
- 03
A door for parents
A portal for students and parents, so attendance and results are something you can look up instead of something you wait to be told.
How our awesomeness made it happen.
The moves that turned the brief into a result.
Computer-based testing
Tests set once, sat on any machine, marked automatically.
Web and mobile together
The same platform in the office and in a pocket, built by one team so the two never drift.
Inside the build.
A closer look at the work as it shipped.
The result
Proof it worked.
- Web + mobile one platform, two faces
- 3 roles staff, students and parents
- 2022 designed, built and shipped
And this is just the tip
There’s a lot more where this came from.
One project, told in full. We’ve shipped dozens more across agritech, health, media, property, commerce and platforms.
Education · School management · Founder mode
AppMan.
School management, in the palm of your hand.
Client AppMan Year 2022 Scope Product · Web app · Mobile app Web + mobile one platform, two faces 3 roles staff, students and parents AppMan set out to replace the paper that runs a school. Attendance registers, test papers, and the phone calls home all became one platform, on the web and in a pocket.
A school runs on records that are easy to lose and hard to check. Registers are taken on paper, results are transcribed by hand, and parents hear about a problem long after it happened. Anything replacing that has to be quicker than the paper it replaces, or nobody uses it.
What we did
The approach.
- 01
Attendance in a second
Smart ID cards and a QR scan take a register in the time it takes to walk through a door, with the record written as it happens.
- 02
Testing on the computer
Papers are set, sat and marked in the platform, so results exist the moment a test ends rather than a week later.
- 03
A door for parents
A portal for students and parents, so attendance and results are something you can look up instead of something you wait to be told.
Inside the build
What shipped.
QR smart IDs
One card per student, scanned at the door, no register to carry or lose.
Computer-based testing
Tests set once, sat on any machine, marked automatically.
Web and mobile together
The same platform in the office and in a pocket, built by one team so the two never drift.
The scoreboard
Results that talk.
- Web + mobile one platform, two faces
- 3 roles staff, students and parents
- 2022 designed, built and shipped
Up close
The product, in frames.
Your story, next.
Tell us what you imagine. You'll have a reply within one business day.
// deploy report · education · school management
AppMan.
School management, in the palm of your hand.
client: AppMan year: 2022 scope: Product · Web app · Mobile appAppMan set out to replace the paper that runs a school. Attendance registers, test papers, and the phone calls home all became one platform, on the web and in a pocket.
A school runs on records that are easy to lose and hard to check. Registers are taken on paper, results are transcribed by hand, and parents hear about a problem long after it happened. Anything replacing that has to be quicker than the paper it replaces, or nobody uses it.
// pipeline — what we ran
The approach.
- step 01
Attendance in a second
Smart ID cards and a QR scan take a register in the time it takes to walk through a door, with the record written as it happens.
- step 02
Testing on the computer
Papers are set, sat and marked in the platform, so results exist the moment a test ends rather than a week later.
- step 03
A door for parents
A portal for students and parents, so attendance and results are something you can look up instead of something you wait to be told.
// CHANGELOG.md
What shipped.
QR smart IDs
One card per student, scanned at the door, no register to carry or lose.
Computer-based testing
Tests set once, sat on any machine, marked automatically.
Web and mobile together
The same platform in the office and in a pocket, built by one team so the two never drift.
- Web + mobile one platform, two faces
- 3 roles staff, students and parents
- 2022 designed, built and shipped
// assets/
The product, in frames.
$ swizel deploy your-story --prod
Your deploy report, next.
Tell us what you're building. A senior engineer reads every message, reply within one business day.
Now showing · 2022
AppMan.
School management, in the palm of your hand.
AppMan set out to replace the paper that runs a school. Attendance registers, test papers, and the phone calls home all became one platform, on the web and in a pocket.
ClientAppMan Year2022 ScopeProduct · Web app · Mobile app
Web + mobile one platform, two faces 3 roles staff, students and parents The brief Read before viewing
A school runs on records that are easy to lose and hard to check. Registers are taken on paper, results are transcribed by hand, and parents hear about a problem long after it happened. Anything replacing that has to be quicker than the paper it replaces, or nobody uses it.
How it was made The studio's hand, step by step
Attendance in a second
Smart ID cards and a QR scan take a register in the time it takes to walk through a door, with the record written as it happens.
Testing on the computer
Papers are set, sat and marked in the platform, so results exist the moment a test ends rather than a week later.
A door for parents
A portal for students and parents, so attendance and results are something you can look up instead of something you wait to be told.
Details of the piece Look closer
QR smart IDs
One card per student, scanned at the door, no register to carry or lose.
Computer-based testing
Tests set once, sat on any machine, marked automatically.
Web and mobile together
The same platform in the office and in a pocket, built by one team so the two never drift.
The numbers What the piece did in the world
- Web + mobile one platform, two faces
- 3 roles staff, students and parents
- 2022 designed, built and shipped
The gallery Frames & footage from the build
Continue through the wing
Commissions open
Your story could hang here.
Every exhibition in this wing started as a rough idea. Bring yours. We design it, build it, launch it and grow it.
⭐ Gold-star project · 2022
AppMan.
School management, in the palm of your hand.
AppMan set out to replace the paper that runs a school. Attendance registers, test papers, and the phone calls home all became one platform, on the web and in a pocket.
ClientAppMan SubjectEducation · School management ScopeProduct · Web app · Mobile app
Web + mobile one platform, two faces 3 roles staff, students and parents 📋 The assignment
What the client asked for.
the brief
A school runs on records that are easy to lose and hard to check. Registers are taken on paper, results are transcribed by hand, and parents hear about a problem long after it happened. Anything replacing that has to be quicker than the paper it replaces, or nobody uses it.
✏️ Our working
Show your work.
Attendance in a second
Smart ID cards and a QR scan take a register in the time it takes to walk through a door, with the record written as it happens.
Testing on the computer
Papers are set, sat and marked in the platform, so results exist the moment a test ends rather than a week later.
A door for parents
A portal for students and parents, so attendance and results are something you can look up instead of something you wait to be told.
🌟 The best bits
Extra credit, earned.
QR smart IDs
One card per student, scanned at the door, no register to carry or lose.
Computer-based testing
Tests set once, sat on any machine, marked automatically.
Web and mobile together
The same platform in the office and in a pocket, built by one team so the two never drift.
🏅 The scoreboard
What it did in the world.
- Web + mobile one platform, two faces
- 3 roles staff, students and parents
- 2022 designed, built and shipped
📸 The scrapbook
Pics or it didn't happen.
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Every write-up here started as somebody's rough idea. Bring yours — we design it, build it, ship it, and grow it.
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AppMan
AppMan set out to replace the paper that runs a school. Attendance registers, test papers, and the phone calls home all became one platform, on the web and in a pocket.
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