Improving in-class interactivity via SMS and Android based applications

In this thesis, studies regarding increasing efficiency and interactivity of student-educator are done by taking the advantage of technological opportunities. A system was designed for students and educators by using mobile phone and internet potentials in order to use interactively and quickly by students and educators and an application setting was developed.Within this study, to make the in-class student-educator interactivity more productive, a system integrated with mobile communication was developed. The users can access in three different ways to this system according to the necessities and potentials: SMS, Web interface and Android application. Flexibility and ease of the application in order to be used integrated to the other automation systems in other institutions is also planned and web services were developed in order to achieve this.In this system, SMS interpretation, web technologies and Android applications are worked integrated and a system which is most suitable for the needs and easy accessible was designed. By including GSM modem which enables the users to communicate with each other over SMS messaging was done over modem. On the other hand, the system was designed flexible for also enabling to be used not only in the research but also for various applications. It has been carried to a structure to be integrated to other systems easily by web services if required.keywords: .NET, Android, GSM modem, Mobile communication, SMS