OsloMet: – I would estimate that we have reduced manual work by 75% by using NOA
NOA streamlines attendance registration for the first day at school
Registering students as 'Present' by roll call or paper list on the first day at school is a manual task that requires time and resources. Fortunately, our customers who use NOA for attendance registration don't have to worry about this.
Canisius Habyarimana, senior engineer at the section for digitizing education at OsloMet, has been responsible for ensuring that the correct data has been entered into NOA from FS, including student data, SMS sending times, attendance times, and numerical codes associated with the study programs.
Before NOA, the challenges included multiple paper lists that had to be collected at the faculties and sent to the admissions office for further punching into FS, which meant a lot of work at the faculties and probably less control in my opinion.
Canisius Habyarimana, Oslo Met
OsloMet first used the service in the autumn of 2020 on approximately 7,000 first-year students.
– Based on these experiences, we saw that an integration between NOA and FS's admission module would be brilliant for retrieving and writing back attendance data, which was implemented for the 2021 admission, says Habyarimana.
Habyarimana believes the solution is valuable for OsloMet because it meets the needs of higher education institutions that practice first-time attendance registration.
I would estimate that we have reduced manual work by 75% with this integration, and with a couple of new adjustments, the solution will be even more robust for OsloMet's next admission.
Canisius Habyarimana, Oslo Met
Hege Longva, founder and CEO of NOA, is proud that so many universities and colleges have adopted NOA.
-We look forward to helping even more people with the next admission, says Longva.
The service for first-time attendance is used by approximately 25,000 students at OsloMet, the University of Southeast Norway, Østfold University College, NLA, and UIA.
NOA is simple and streamlines attendance registration. Students receive a text message with a link that connects them to their study program. The students then enter a code as confirmation of attendance.