Mobile Barcode Based Examination Attendance System

Abstract

Smartphone usage has revolutionized the world to many settings including that of the education system with numerous potential and realized benefits. While the functions of smartphones, such as text messaging, multimedia, and Internet connectivity, may seem purely recreational, they can be used within the academic institution to manage students attendance to speed up the process of taking attendance by academic instructors, hence reduces time, human errors and redundant works as compared to the manual attendance system. In this paper, we introduced an automatic examination attendance system on smartphones based on the Barcode to automatically capture student examination attendance. Although many existing systems (Sudha et al. 2015) have been proposed using smartphones for automatic student attendance, there is little study known about a system that is specifically designed for capturing student examination attendance. The main difference among our system and existing systems is that existing systems are using extra hardware device Barcode reader while our system is using smartphone, which highly reduce the cost. Our experiment shows that our proposed student examination attendance system is better for capturing the student attendance information during the examination as compared to the general student attendance systems.

QR Code and Fingerprint Systems for University ExaminationsManagement

“…There has been little literature on electronic university examination attendance management. The literature includes the Mobile Barcode Based Examination Attendance System (MBEAS) [3]. The MBEAS is preconfigured with subjects, examination halls, and schedules during examination sessions.…”

“…Several automated attendance systems have been developed to overcome the challenges associated with the paperbased attendance system. Popular methodologies for automated attendance systems are barcode [3,4], QR code [5,6] and fingerprint [1,2,7]. Other methodologies include iris scan and face recognition.…”

Satisfaction in using barcode attendance for the Criminology Students of Data Center College of the Philippines, Laoag City

“…While some smartphone features, like text messaging, multimedia, and Internet access, may seem purely recreational, they can be used in educational settings to manage student attendance. By facilitating the process of academic instructors taking attendance, smartphones can save time, prevent human error, and eliminate redundant tasks when compared to the manual attendance system (Khan, 2018).…”

Android-based Attendance System using QR Code and Fingerprint Features

“…If the match is successful, attendance is updated in the database. Rahul Sharma et al, [9] developed a mobile app which scans the QR code which acts as user ID and uses fingerprint or voice recognition for verification. In the proposed system smartphones are used instead of separate machine for attendance check-in.…”