Development of an Online Attendance System for Educational Institution

Abstract

Student attendance plays an important role in academic institute.
Most institutions make use of manual means (paper attendance
system) in taking attendance which is ineffective, inefficient and not
secure enough. Therefore, Academic institutions need a system
which is secure and fully responsive. With the current advances in
information technology, there are lots of technologies being used in
this 21st century. Different software and hardware have been
developed in order to save and retrieve data and information in a
computerized system. With this new innovation in technology, we are
able to develop online attendance system which is web based. This
system helps lecturers take students attendance through the
developed attendance website and attendance records which is
gathered from the website and is stored automatically into the
attendance database. It is a web based system which uses student
matric numbers as means of taking attendance. Thus, this paper
presents the development of an online attendance system for use in
educational institutions in Nigeria.