Student Goal Tracker (Orbit)
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Students today manage multiple responsibilities, including academic coursework, examinations, projects, skill development, health, and extracurricular activities. However, many students face difficulties in setting clear goals, organizing tasks, monitoring progress, and maintaining consistency. Traditional methods such as notebooks, calendars, and separate applications may not provide an integrated view of a student’s overall development. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a Student Goal Tracker, a centralized digital platform designed to help students set, organize, monitor, and achieve academic and personal goals. The proposed system allows students to create goals under categories such as academics, skills, health, and extracurricular activities. Each goal can be divided into smaller tasks with deadlines, schedules, and reminders. The system tracks task completion and displays progress using percentages, progress bars, milestones, and charts. Motivational features such as badges, achievements, and consistency tracking are included to encourage students to remain engaged with their goals. The methodology involves identifying student requirements, analyzing existing goal-management practices, designing the proposed system, implementing its core features, and evaluating its effectiveness through user feedback and measurable performance indicators. Evaluation focuses on factors such as goal completion rate, task consistency, time-management effectiveness, and user satisfaction. By integrating goal setting, task management, reminders, progress monitoring, and motivation into a single platform, the proposed system provides a structured approach to student development. The expected outcomes include improved goal completion, better time management, increased self-discipline, and balanced academic and personal growth.
Language: English
Topic: Mobile and Web Applications
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225422435