STUDENT ATTENDANCE REGISTERS SYSTEM

Student Attendance Registers System For The CMS School



Student Attendance Registers System For The CMS School

The software system is based on inserting, deleting, updating and querying of a database management system. Emphasis is mainly on a real time application, namely tracking and counting of students in a crowded seminar rooms within a short time. The system was experimented with the university students attending numerous SPIKE seminars at EMU and the results are also presented in this paper. Furthermore, improvement of the system with new technological tools is introduced(Sriram, 2011, pp. 641 -646).

Attendance of students into classrooms or seminar rooms is important and can be considered as the starting point towards attaining a good education. This process therefore requires attention of the instructor. Among the classical methods of taking attendance are reading out the student names and check if they are present in the class or signing a paper by the students present in the classroom. The pros and cons of the classical method is the useful interaction between students and the instructor through which the instructor can get to know the students in a small class and on the other hand, loss of time spent while taking the attendance of a crowded class (Weinstein, 2012, pp. 27 - 33). Technological improvements can be useful tools to help in the development of new methods to eliminate the disadvantages of the classical methods while enhancing its advantages. It is important to identify the correct tools to use in commercial and scientific studies. Barcode readers, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system Bluetooth are just a few of the examples to such tools. However, they were expensive when first introduced and therefore they had limited use. Nowadays, they become cheaper and they can be used in a variety of applications, such as, identification, counting, tracking or positioning. Barcodes and their readers are heavily used in markets to identify the objects on sale. For instance, in shopping centers, people load their shopping baskets with the products which are labeled with the barcode and then the cashier uses the barcode reader to identify the products and therefore the prices so that the total price can easily be obtained for the customer. The use of new technologies could save precious time of the customer and the shop staff(Hallberg, 2011, pp. 954 - 958).

System Architecture

The main purpose of this system is to take attendance of the students to SPIKE seminars. Meaning, who attend to which seminars and count the attendancerecords of the students and give their grade at the end of semester as 'U' (unsatisfactory) or 'S' (satisfactory) (Sriram, 2011, pp. 641 -646). The technologies used for this purpose are barcode readers and notebook computers as clients, a desktop computer as a server, a database management system and internet connection for the online recordings. There are two kinds of recording mechanism that are implemented; the first one is Online System and the second one is Offline System followed by online ...