« With Edusign’s API, we push thousands of sessions, including the Aprender Haciendo rotations unique to Zamorano, with a single click. The university’s official attendance now runs on data that requires no human intervention between systems. »
Carlos Antonio Gonzales Zuniga, Academic Software Coordinator, Universidad Zamorano
64,974
attendance records in 23 days
2,523
sessions created via API
5 weeks
from idea to production
Zamorano built its reputation on Aprender Haciendo, its historic methodology where every student alternates between classroom theory and field work, with rotations that change every week and Saturdays dedicated to specific modules. This timetable, with its odd and even weeks and quarterly rotations, fits no standard university SIS template.
Before the DAGCA Portal, each academic period lived scattered across Banner (the official student information system), Blackboard (the LMS platform), shared Excel sheets and attendance in Edusign. To keep everything running, coordinators manually replicated each course, section and rotation from Excel into the other systems.
The in-person attendance of 1,130 students via biometrics, NFC and QR codes only has value if sessions are correctly created upstream. Yet the typical errors of this manual replication (duplicate courses, the wrong teacher assigned, Saturdays misplaced in Aprender Haciendo) compromised the reliability of official records.
« The most painful case was Aprender Haciendo. The rotations, combined with odd and even weeks, are Zamorano's signature. Rebuilding them by hand every term was practically impossible. »
Carlos Antonio Gonzales Zuniga, Academic Software Coordinator, Universidad Zamorano
Zamorano's IT team built the DAGCA Portal in five weeks, from idea to production. The goal: a single source where each academic period is designed, that talks natively to all three existing systems. Banner remains the official enrolment system, Blackboard remains the LMS, and Edusign's open API serves as the backbone for attendance.
This architecture was only possible because the Edusign API readily accepts the cases that commercial ERPs reject. Courses split across four quarterly blocks, rotating Saturdays, teachers who change from one rotation to the next, odd weeks alternating with even ones: everything goes through the REST API with no format constraint imposed by the tool. DAGCA pushes sessions, groups, teachers and students to Edusign in a single call, and the day's signatures flow back to enrich the internal attendance dashboards via a midnight cron.
The operational flow that has become standard: the coordinator designs the period in DAGCA, adjusts the Aprender Haciendo rotations, clicks Sync to Edusign, and everything is in place for attendance to start the next day. The CSV templates Banner requires (PlantillaNrc.csv, Horarios.csv, Instructors.csv) are generated in one click from the portal instead of being assembled by hand in Excel.
« Edusign's API has never been a limit for us. Anything we imagine on the DAGCA Portal side, we can push to Edusign, even the trickiest cases like our Aprender Haciendo rotations. »
Carlos Antonio Gonzales Zuniga, Academic Software Coordinator, Universidad Zamorano
For period 202620, after 23 days of operation at 20% completion, the numbers speak for themselves. 2,523 class sessions created via the API, 288 Aprender Haciendo modules synchronised including rotations, 64,974 attendance marks processed at a 95.18% presence rate. 1,136 unique students out of 1,130 active enrolees signed at least once, an effective coverage of nearly 100%.
The reduction in manual work is hard to overstate. The typical errors of the old process have disappeared because the source of truth is now single. Banner receives its templates via automated export from the portal, Blackboard stays connected identically to the SIS, and Edusign receives its sessions without any coordinator having to duplicate entry. Three systems, one motion.
The part the team is most proud of is the Aprender Haciendo module: a use case no commercial ERP handles well, now driven in one click. The message for other universities is simple: if the Edusign API can model Aprender Haciendo, it can absorb pretty much any attendance scenario. Like UNAM and Universidad Linda Vista, Universidad Zamorano is part of the wave of Latin American universities adopting Edusign. Also discover our digital attendance and AI & automation solutions.
« In five weeks we went from idea to production, with more than 60,000 attendance records processed in the first 23 days of operation. »
Carlos Antonio Gonzales Zuniga, Academic Software Coordinator, Universidad Zamorano
« With Edusign’s API, we push thousands of sessions, including the Aprender Haciendo rotations unique to Zamorano, with a single click. The university’s official attendance now runs on data that requires no human intervention between systems. »
Carlos Antonio Gonzales Zuniga, Academic Software Coordinator, Universidad Zamorano
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