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Covi

New Southbound Duty Lookup

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Project record

Covi was a duty lookup tool for New Southbound international students at a university in southern Taiwan. Students entered their student ID or a keyword to see their dormitory duty (disciplinary) records and whether they had been cleared.

How to use each platform, what the lookup results mean, and FAQs are collected in the Covi documentation.

Users
New Southbound international students at a university in southern Taiwan
Lookup results
Student ID, department, name, penalty month, reason, dormitory rule, number of duties, and clearance status
Offered as
Website, LINE official account, iPhone/iPad/Mac app (CnuCOVI), Windows app
Status
No longer maintained; the app has been removed from the App Store

Platforms

PlatformDetails
WebsiteLookup by student ID.
LINE official accountLookup by student ID or name, with field names in both Chinese and Vietnamese.
CnuCOVI (iPhone, iPad, Mac)Paid app on the App Store (Taiwan), NT$30; required iOS/iPadOS 17.6 or macOS 14.6 or later. Lookup by student ID or keyword, saved search history, and switchable dark mode, font size, and 9 interface languages.
WindowsDesktop app: keyword lookup, paged results, Excel export, and dark mode.
AndroidWas in development; never released.

History

  1. Lookup available on the website and the LINE official account; usage guide published on YucDu.

  2. CnuCOVI 1.0 released on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

  3. 1.1: added search history and a Vietnamese interface, and switched to keyword matching (the Mac version updated on October 31).

  4. Windows version released on TedSky Resources.

  5. 1.2: added Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Korean, Japanese, Thai, Indonesian, and English interfaces, and cached lookup results within a session. The same day, the website moved into the TedSky forum.

  6. 1.3: settings moved to a sidebar (dark mode, font size, interface language, cache); lookup results were saved on the device and cleared on the first launch each day; search history kept the latest 20 entries; results could be paged; push notifications on iOS.

  7. Date not recorded

    No longer maintained: no feature updates or routine maintenance, and the app was removed from the App Store.

Screenshots

CnuCOVI 1.3 App Store image: the title “New Southbound Tool – CnuCOVI” above the lookup screen in light and dark mode
1.3 promotional image: light and dark mode
CnuCOVI 1.3 App Store image: search history, font size and cache settings, and the menu of 9 interface languages
1.3 promotional image: search history, sidebar, and language menu
Mac version lookup screen (in Chinese): the title “New Southbound Tool > Duty Lookup System”, a dark mode button, Chinese and Vietnamese language buttons, a student ID field, and a search button
Mac version (early release)
Windows version lookup screen: keyword field, search and clear-history buttons, paging, Excel export, and a dark mode option
Windows version

Images: App Store screenshots and the YucDu article.

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