MySchool Application as a Computer-mediated Communication for Parents, School, and Teachers

Abstract

School is a very important place for every individual and also the primary center of a smart
nation generation where the teaching and learning process is carried out continuously every
day. In the teaching and learning process, communication between parents and schools plays a
very important role because students' academic success cannot be separated from the support
of their parents, currently parents and schools usually create WhatsApp Groups (WAGs) to
establish communication whose purpose is to find out about activities students in school such
as: attendance, student grades, exam schedule, important announcements, and others.
Moreover, the Covid-19 Pandemic adds to the series of problems that must be resolved and
immediately sought for solutions together. For this reason, a system is needed to overcome
these problems through the use of information technology in the communication process
between parents and schools. MySchool application aims to solve communication problems
between parents, teachers, and schools, besides this application also aims to support the school
administration system in such as tuition fees, information on school activities, important
announcements, and others. This application is also a series of solutions for the teaching and
learning processes of school activities during the Covid-19 pandemic and by optimizing it can
convert all activities to be completely digital ones. The feedbacks were very positive like
having mobile app as a mean of communication at school provides effective relationship
between parents and the school.