Project Idea #3: Grades via SMS

This idea was proposed as a mechanism to deliver student’s grades via text message (SMS). The use case is that a teacher would be able to use this application as an alternative to email to contact students when their exams or course final grades are determined. One consideration with this project is that, currently, most SMS services charge per message. Thus, we would either have to find a free SMS gateway or build some sort of payment mechanism to handle the messaging costs. We also discussed the possibility of integrating this tool into a student portals such as Blackboard. Of course, due to the sensitivity of grades, security concerns will likely need to be addressed as well.

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