I think an optimal system if resources are no issue
What resources would be required for this?
an app
On what platform? As I commented on another reply, many of our student attendees come from poor districts so I don’t want to assume every student has a smartphone.
The Amazon reviews suggest that it’s a really terrible phone.
(It’s also worth noting that in many cases most of the cost of owning a smartphone isn’t in the nominal price of the device but in what you pay for network service. If you buy that smartphone, how much more do you have to pay to make it actually connect to the internet?)
I think an optimal system is resources are no issue is to have an app that allows the teacher to ask every student in attendance questions.
It creates makes the teaching process more interactive and it also requires attendance.
What resources would be required for this?
On what platform? As I commented on another reply, many of our student attendees come from poor districts so I don’t want to assume every student has a smartphone.
The cheapest android phone I can find seems to be sold for 32.17$ (Rs. 1,999) in India (http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/jivi-launches-cheapest-android-based-smartphone-in-india-at-rs-1999-594264).
Likely Android and IOS.
The cheapest android phone you can find is used, a few years old, and your neighbour is selling it for 5 euros...
I wouldn’t know where to buy 100 phones for 5€ each.
The Amazon reviews suggest that it’s a really terrible phone.
(It’s also worth noting that in many cases most of the cost of owning a smartphone isn’t in the nominal price of the device but in what you pay for network service. If you buy that smartphone, how much more do you have to pay to make it actually connect to the internet?)
I think most universities do have WLan in which devices can login.
On Amazon.com there LG Realm for 40$ and Kyocera Event for 30$. The LG Realm has 4.4 out of 5 stars average on Amazon.
Unless you treat that smartphone as not a phone, but a tiny computer. Wi-Fi is free, usually.