An App for laptop loan checkout?

[Jim Hahn]

We just wrote something for this that we are getting ready to roll out this
summer! We may be able to share parts of the code, though I'd have to ask
around first unfortunately it isn't on a public repo currently.

It works as you describe: the students sign on a touch screen and the
receive a pdf of the completed agreement -- we used our campus exchange
servers for email (a Spring web app running in Tomcat takes care the logic
of sending the email) and two really helpful JS/HTML5 tools :

1) jsPDF https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF

2) Signature Pad inspired by Square: https://github.com/szimek/signature_pad


Right now our public service staff are evaluating if they want to use a
touch screen montior or move to a tablet with stylus for checkout.

- Jim Hahn

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:00 PM Claibourne Williams <
clwillia at hunter.cuny.edu> wrote:

> Hunter College is an urban, primarily commuter school with about 15,000
> FTE.
>
> Our laptop and tablet loan program has about 300 checkouts/day for most of
> the semester.  We are wondering if anyone uses or has written an app for an
> iPad (or other device) with a card reader attached that would take over the
> check in/out process for our equipment loan using the student’s ID. What we
> are hoping for is a way around an accumulation of paper since the students
> do sign a “contract” which isn’t a short document.  Ideally, the receipt
> would be via email. The machines are checked out as an item in the catalog.
>
> Our staff is considering writing one of our own, but it is often good to
> check and see what else might be out there first
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>
>
> Clay Williams
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