Student Diary: enhanced activity tracker by using real time schedule

The digital era presents important obstacles for securing parent engagement in secondary school student education especially in Malaysia because many families face difficulties managing their time and using appropriate communication platforms. Report cards coupled with periodic school meetings deliver late and inadequate feedback that hinders parental support for academic and personal development of their children. The Student Diary mobile application serves as a solution to bridge this connection gap for real-time task follow-ups between learners and their parents. The Student Diary mobile application was created to fix this gap in order to allow real-time task monitoring between students and their parents. The application provides students with daily recording features for academics and personal matters while letting parents check remote student progress through an organized secure interface. This project serves to improve student time management along with academic performance enhancement and it aims to establish meaningful communication between children and their parents. In order to do so, the project applied Waterfall development model, which operates on the step-by-step case basis and has five main steps (requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance). In the requirements analysis, the former was done through analysis of comparable apps and the latter through user needs. The developers constructed the application through Android Studio using Java and XML for interface code creation and integrated Firebase as their cloud database solution with real-time authentication features. The System Usability Scale (SUS) and Nielsen usability model were performed to test the usability of the application, which demonstrated that people found it easy to use an application, efficient, and helpful to track and communicate. It has shown a high satisfaction and effectiveness in establishing student self-discipline as well as improving parental involvement. Student self-discipline expanded through the application while both students and their parents experienced better academic participation. This system demonstrated several drawbacks that consisted of dependency on reliable Internet and restricted offline mode usage as well as issues related to privacy protection. The Student Diary application provides students with a functional solution that unites academic life with household responsibilities