Keywords:Attendance Management Systems, Web Application, Absence Management
System.
INTRODUCTION Due to student’s interest in classrooms, and
whose is the largest union in the study environment of
university or institution, so recording absence at a
department having a large number of students in a
classroom is a difficult task and time-consuming.
Moreover, the process takes much time, and many
efforts are spent by the staff of the department to
complete the attendance rates for each student. So in
many
institutions
and
academic
organizations,
attendance is a very important criterion which is used
for various purposes. These purposes include record
keeping, assessment of students, and promotion of
optimal and consistent attendance in class. As long as in
many developing countries, a minimum percentage of
class attendance is required in most institutions and this
policy has not been adhered to, because of the various
challenges the present method of taking attendance
presents. The process of recording attendances for
students was in the form of hardcopy papers and the
system was manually done. Besides wasting time and
taking efforts for preparing sheets and documents, other
disadvantages may be visible to the traditional one due
to loss or damage to the sheets-sheet could be stolen.
The developed system considers as an
alternative to the traditional one, it is easy, fast and
reliable than the traditional one, especially after the
development of information technology and its usage
by educational institutions. Therefore, the design of
student attendance system has a significant reality
meaning.
The system is a Web-based application
developed for daily student attendance in departments
within the university. It facilitates access to the
attendance of a particular student in a particular class.
This system will also help in generating reports and
evaluating the attendance eligibility of a student. The
system is not only improving the work efficiency,
students’ study and development, but also can save
human and material resources.
