As part of measures towards providing qualitative learning and teaching for students and lectures, the Kaduna State University (KASU) signed a pact with Tita Universal Services Limited to provide e-interactive timetable for students and lecturers.
Tita Universal Services is an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firm on an e-timetable platform.
The interactive e-timetable platform is aimed at giving students first-hand information and updates on school activities, and also connects students and lecturers, thus, assisting students to optimise the use of their time.
Speaking during the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Vice Chancellor of KASU, Prof. Abdullahi Ibrahim Musa said the use of Tita application will help both the lecturers and students of the institution.
“We want to use the latest technologies, we want to update, so we welcome this kind of initiative whereby some ICT tech firms are able to approach us to provide services for us and our students, so that is why we welcome them and accept to sign the MoU.”
Represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) academics, Prof.Yusha’u Ibrahim Ango, the VC said the application is going to be used by both the lecturers and the students especially in timetabling and submission of assignments online.
Earlier, the company’s secretary, Aisha Aminu Mohammed explained that Tita is an online e-interactive timetable platform that gives students first hand information about their course schedules and activities.
She said “We had an incident that happened to us, we have a friend with Imo State University, Owerri, she was going to class one morning and she didn’t know the class was cancelled, so she went to the class and on her way coming back she had an accident and died, so based on that and our own personal experiences that was how Tita came about.
“We have two benefits of the app, we have the Value side and the Business side. The Value side is where students get first hand information about their course schedules and activities. They have their course materials, academic calendar and others.
“The business side of it is that Tita Universal Services Limited is actually not using the students data, we are leveraging on traffic that is being generated on the application to make money, we are trying to get corporate endorsement, sponsorship from banks and other institutions.
“The application is for free both to the instructors and the students, they are not paying anything, in return we are the one paying them money.”
According to her, it was the official launch of the application, noting that there are over 1500 students using the application in Maiduguri and Imo State Universities.
She therefore advised the students using Tita to be consistent, saying that Tita is here to save them cost and time, stressing that the firm is an indigenous one that designs and develops mobile applications.
