Starting from this spring semester, new students at the University of Missouri (MU) will be required to install a smartphone application designed to help professors keep track of who is in class or not.
The attendance tracking app named “SpotterEDU” has been used only by the MU Athletics Department in the past four years to stop certain athletes from skipping their classes. Jim Spain, vice provost for undergraduate studies at MU, said in a statement to The Kansas City Star that the school is putting the app in wider use.
