Ah, you've met Gary, good! I used to have an application that could tell me anything about any student a couple of decades ago. Attendance, address, any issues

Ah, you've met Gary, good! I used to have an application that could tell me anything about any student a couple of decades ago. Attendance, address, any issues from tutors &c. We are getting back to that now slowly, but with Web interfaces on screens with 9x the area and a quarter of the information on each page.