Developing and Implementing a Barcode Based Student Attendance System

Abstract

In view of the importance of students' attendance at lectures and their impact on their academic achievement, universities take the necessary measures to reduce excessive absenteeism. This is a highly important problem. The administration requires careful follow-up, taking care of it and not being lenient. At present, attendance and absence at the universities are recorded by calling the names of the students or by signing the student's attendance paper. In the process of admitting students into an examination hall in most KSA universities, 85% of attendance must be met and also considered for grade computation, therefore there is a huge need for monitoring and recording students’ attendance. The aim of this work is to design and implement a barcode based student attendance system that can be easily accessed by the lecturers, to help them to avoid maintaining the registry book, providing valuable information about the students and the reports can be generated using real-time processing. The proposed work was designed and implemented using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Microsoft Access 2007 and ASP.NET programming language.

Keywords: Attendance Management, Barcode Scanner, Unified Modeling Language