Students invent app that ensures no lecturer misses lessons

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology I T student Rex Mudanya explains to their colleagues how an invented digital application works. The application will ensure lecturers and students do not miss lessons. (Benjamin Sakwa, Standard)

A group of students has invented a digital application to curb cases of students and lecturers’ truancy.

The app, developed by five third-year students from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), detects faces and sends the information to the university portal.