Introducing Attendrix

An Academic Management Ecosystem Built Around Real Student Behavior

"Attendrix is a smart attendance tracking system designed to simplify classroom management and boost student engagement. It provides accurate records, streamlined workflows, and gamified rewards that encourage consistent participation"

Attendrix is not a single app.
It’s an ecosystem with multiple entry points, each optimized for a different workflow:

Attendrix (Mobile App) → quick daily actions
AttendrixWeb → power, performance, and depth
LumenAI → conversational, zero-friction interaction

All three connect to the same real-time backend and reflect changes instantly.

Why Attendrix Exists

At NIT Calicut, students must maintain 80% attendance in every subject to write end-of-semester exams. Attendance is taken manually by professors, but tracking it—accurately and continuously—is left entirely to students.

In practice, students rely on memory, rough notes, or spreadsheets. Attendance is often checked only near exams, when recovery is difficult or impossible.

Attendrix was built to eliminate this uncertainty by turning attendance and academics into something students can see, plan, and reason about—rather than guess.

Architecture Overview (Big Picture)

Attendrix follows a shared-backend, multi-client architecture. The mobile app, AttendrixWeb, and LumenAI all connect to the same real-time data layer, ensuring consistency across platforms without duplication or sync conflicts.

Attendrix: Attendance Done Properly

Attendrix understands the NITC slot system, enrolled courses, class timings, and institute holidays. Using this, it automatically generates accurate schedules and skips non-instruction days by design.

Students mark which classes they attended. From that single input, Attendrix continuously computes subject-wise attendance, showing:

total classes conducted
classes attended
current percentage
safe bunk margin
Mandatory attendance needed to stay eligible

An attendance calculator allows students to simulate “what-if” scenarios, turning attendance from a panic-driven problem into a planning exercise.

AttendrixWeb: Power Users, Performance, and a New Interface

AttendrixWeb exists because real constraints mattered:

App Store policies and costs
Flutter web performance limits
iOS-only users are lacking a strong experience
Power users wanting richer interfaces

Built with a modern web stack, AttendrixWeb connects to the same backend as the app. Any change made on the web reflects instantly on mobile, and vice versa.

A Bold Design Choice

AttendrixWeb intentionally adopts a neo-brutalist design—bold colors, strong contrast, sharp edges, and fluid animations. It’s meant to feel like a control surface, not a companion app.

The Study Repository, Rebuilt

The Study Materials page was completely re-engineered:

course-wise organization
live connection to the LaunchPad community drive
star, pin, and tag support
lightning-fast client-side indexed search
offline access with user-controlled storage limits

For many students, this becomes the most powerful academic resource interface on campus.

LumenAI: Using Attendrix Without Opening an App

Available as @HeyLumenBot on Telegram, LumenAI lets students:

check attendance
mark attendance
Receive daily schedules
Get suggestions on what classes to attend or skip

Everything syncs in real time with Attendrix and AttendrixWeb.

LumenAI for Studying (RAG-Based Assistance)

LumenAI is also designed as a study assistant, not a generic chatbot.

It uses an advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline built on:

LaunchPad community study materials
peer-to-peer notes shared with Attendrix

Instead of hallucinating answers, Lumen first retrieves relevant documents and then answers strictly based on those materials. In many cases, it can locate the exact problem or reference from notes.

Free users get efficient, grounded assistance. Paid users later gain access to more advanced models with larger context windows and deeper reasoning.