Development of a Class Attendance Monitoring System Using Barcode with SMS Notification

Abstract

The new trend of technology is embraced by many users considering its advantages. One of those is the attendance monitoring system which is developed in different methods globally to solve student’s absenteeism. Involving technology inventions is a key to motivate student’s awareness, attention, and interest in learning to solve their problems, especially in their daily life. Implementing this kind of system is indispensable to Isabela State University- San Mateo Campus because students are prone to absences for varied reasons observed and their parents or guardians are not immediately informed about the absences of their children. Moreover, the faculty used a piece of paper or class record to document the daily attendance of their students. Hence, this Class Attendance Monitoring System Using Barcode with SMS Notification was designed and developed to provide convenience and ease in monitoring class attendance. It allows the students to place their Identity Barcode on the scanner, then it will be saved in the database and directly send a message to the parents via Short Message Service (SMS) using Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network containing the time and date when their child enters the class for a particular subjects or events. This system will also generate an attendance report containing the time-in and time out of the students by course and section, subject, semester, and even by school event.