QR Code Attendance System with SMS Notification
Abstract
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Technology played a vital role in the improvement and development of the educational field. It altered the way how teaching, learning processes, and other educational activities are conducted. Technological advancements have the potential to change the traditional educational systems and learning processes. The educational institutions can take advantage of different educational technologies, computerized systems, and applications in teaching and operating school activities and transactions.
The capstone project, “QR Code Attendance System with SMS Notification” is designed to systematize the attendance system in school. The attendance system will be based on QR codes scanned by students in entering and leaving the school premises. Upon the recording of attendance, the system will generate SMS to notify the parents about the arrival and departure of their children in school.
Core features of the QR code student attendance system will focus on time-in/out for attendance, student information encoding, SMS notifications, QR code generation, and scanning reports generation, and database backup.
The system will record the list of students who arrived and departed from school. The system will closely monitor the attendance of students in school every day in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner. The system will automatically generate reports of attendance at every end of the day. Reports will be provided to the school faculty for student record tracking and decision-making support purposes.
The implementation of the QR Code-based attendance system will ease up student attendance recording and monitoring. The system will eliminate the errors and problems encountered in the manual attendance system. By implementing the system, the recording of attendance will be efficient, timely, convenient, and accurate.
Introduction
The capstone project, entitled “ QR Code Attendance System with SMS Notification” is purposely designed to be used by the educational institution. The attendance system will only require the students to scan the QR codes to record their attendance during arrival and departure in school. The said project also has an SMS feature that is used to notify the parents of the students about their attendance.
Checking student’s attendance is an essential day-to-day activity in school. It is done to ensure that students are always present and attend classes. Student’s attendance is also critical in tracking and monitoring students in school. Conventionally, student’s attendance is checked and recorded manually. Some of the most common manual methods of attendance are roll calling, use of class records, and letting students sign an attendance sheet. The mentioned methods are prone to human errors and are not highly accurate and reliable. The manual method is not ideal for it requires a lot of time and effort from both the students and the instructors. There are also loads of paperwork and it is very time-consuming. The manual process is very ineffective and outdated.
Proposed Solution
As a response to the above-mentioned concerns, the researchers proposed the QR-Code-based Attendance System with SMS Notification. The system will record the list of students who arrived and departed from school. The system will closely monitor the attendance of students in school every day in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner. the QR Code-based attendance system will ease up student attendance recording and monitoring. The system will eliminate the errors and problems encountered in the manual attendance system. By implementing the system, the recording of attendance will be efficient, timely, convenient, and accurate.
Objectives of the Study
General Objectives – the researchers mainly focus on designing and developing a QR code-based Attendance system that will provide an efficient, timely, and accurate record of attendance.
Specifically, the researchers aim the following objectives:
- To develop a QR code-based attendance system with SMS Notification.
- To timely monitor attendance of students during arrival and departure in school.
- To ease up the recording of attendance just by scanning the QR code.
- To transform the traditional attendance system into an advance and technology-assisted system.
- To allow parents to monitor their students by receiving SMS notifications of attendance.
- To develop a system that will let managing attendance records easy and convenient.
- To provide an accurate list and records of Student attendance.
Scope of the Study
The researchers mainly focus on developing an attendance system that is QR-code-based. The system will have an SMS notification that will notify the parents of their child’s attendance. The project is solely for educational institutions to automate recording student’s attendance. School faculties, students, and parents will participate as respondents to the study.
Significance of the Study
Educational Institutions. The success of the project will benefit schools by having a systematic method of recording the attendance of students. The system will help them gather accurate and reliable records of attendance.
School Faculty. The system can help them have an accurate list of students who regularly attend school. They can easily monitor their student’s presence.
Students. They can record their attendance easily and conveniently., The system will ensure that their attendance is accurately recorded.
Parents. The system can help them monitor their student’s attendance in school. The system will notify them by sending a short message about the arrival and departure of their students in school.
Researchers. The project will further enhance their knowledge and skills as program developers.
Future Researchers. The study can serve as their guide in developing updates for the system or if they wish to develop their version of the attendance system.
Development Tools
The QR code-based Attendance System with SMS Notification will automate the recording of student’s attendance in school. The system will collect the attendance of the students by QR codes. The students will scan the QR Codes during the time in and out in school. The system will make a recording of attendance easy, fast, convenient, and accurate.
This article will provide you with an idea on what are the forms to be included in a QR Code-based Attendance System with SMS Notification. C# were used to develop the said project.
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Project Highlights
The capstone project, “QR Code- based Attendance System with SMS Notification” is a database-driven system that will record and store students’ attendance every day. The system will gather and generate accurate reports of the student’s attendance.
The following are the advantages of the system:
- Automated Recording and Monitoring of Attendance – the system will make it easier for schools to record and monitor students’ attendance in school.
- Records Management – it is a database system that makes the records of the student’s attendance electronic, safe, accurate, reliable, and fast.
- Report Generation – the system automatically generates and provide reports about student’s record of attendance.
How the System Works
This article will explain the features and how the system works. This section will discuss the forms, modules, and user interface of the QR Code Attendance System with SMS Notification.
Login Form – this form will be used by the intended users in logging in to the system. The users will set their username and password to access the features and records of the system.
The image shown below is the design of the login form.
Attendance Record – this form will allow the system administrator to manage the records of the students who recorded their attendance.
The admin will manage the following information:
- QR code
- Log date
- Arrival time
- Status -(ex. enter or exit school)
- Departure Time
- Status – (ex. enter or exit school)
Shown below is the design of the attendance record form.
Messages/Notifications – this form will allow the admin to manage the records of messages sent to the parents of the students.
The admin will manage the following information:
- QR code
- Recipient number
- Sender
- Messages
- Date and Time
The image shown below is the form design of Messages or Notifications.
Generate QR Code – this page will allow QR code generation to record the attendance of the student’s arrival and departure in school.
The following information will be encoded and displayed on the page:
- Student ID #
- Student Name
- QR code
The image shown below is the page design of Generate QR Code.
Student record – this form will require the system administrator to input student’s information into the system.
The admin will encode the following information:
- ID No.
- Student Name
- Gender
- Age
- Address
- Phone Number
- QR Code
- Action – ( edit, delete)
Shown below is the design of the Student Record Form.
Conclusion
Technological innovations significantly contribute to the improvement of educational institutions. Educational technologies, computerized systems, software, and applications improve educational systems, teaching methods, and learning processes. This study was conducted to assess one of the vital activities that every school conducted, the checking of student’s attendance. The researchers have seen that some schools still use the manual method of checking and recording student’s attendance. Thus, the researchers proposed and developed a QR Code-based attendance system with SMS Notification to automate and ease up checking and recording of student’s attendance. The result of the study showed that the developed system met the needs and requirements of the intended users and respondents.
Hence, the researchers concluded that the developed system is an effective system to ease up checking and recording of the student’s attendance. The implementation of the QR Code-based attendance system will ease up student attendance recording and monitoring. The system will eliminate the errors and problems encountered in the manual attendance system. By implementing the system, the recording of attendance will be efficient, timely, convenient, and accurate.
Recommendations
The significant result of the study prompted the researchers to highly recommend the implementation of the QR Code Attendance System with SMS Notification. The system is recommended for its efficiency and reliability that can be rendered to the target users. The attendance system will be based on QR codes scanned by students in entering and leaving the school premises. Upon the recording of attendance, the system will generate SMS to notify the parents about the arrival and departure of their children in school.
The researchers specifically recommend the following:
- Schools should install the system to easily and accurately record student’s attendance.
- The implementation of the system is highly recommended for it will generate a credible and accurate record of student’s attendance.
- The researchers strongly suggest the use of the system to make attendance checking and recording of student’s attendance easy, fast, efficient, timely and, accurate.
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