Students' Class Attendance Tracking System
Date
2018Author
Shaba, Victory Hope
Nerima, Angel
Kirabo, Gloria
Nakibuuka, Shamsa
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The students’ tracking attendance system has been established to monitor students’ attendance reliably in various session throughout their time at the university. It mainly consists of a fingerprint scanner which captures the students’ thumbprints and the attendance data is displayed on the mobile application interface. A database was constructed to store all system information about the students, courses and lecturertimes. Random students have been assigned unique ids for each and their fingerprints captured and stored in the reader. They were also assigned to specific courses attendance system page through the interface. Random information about lecture times, courses and departments' codes have been inserted into the database for testing. Attendance of previous students has been taken at different times for testing. At each time attendance of students has been obtained correctly and a .csv file is generated inform of a reporting displaying students’ attendance.