There is still one area where these services have not been utilized to the right potential is in the field of academics. Although it has the widest reach of all the technologies in the college campus, it is still very much underutilized in the student services administration. In this paper, assessment of SMS based applications for student services administration is explored and an approach for implementing these applications is proposed. The proposed applications include use of Short Message Services by educational institutes for Information Dissemination, Alert services, and Information On-demand services for students.
Use of Short Message services (SMS) for various applications have increased significantly. There is still one area where these services have not been utilized to the right potential is in the field of academics.Although it has the widest reach of all the technologies in the college campus, it is still very much underutilized in the student services administration.In this paper,assessment of SMS based applications for student services administration is explored and an approach for implementing these applications is proposed. The proposed applications include use of Short Message Services by educational institutes for Information Dissemination, Alert services, andInformation On-demand services for students.