DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING QR CODE (A CASE STUDY OF IMO STATE POLYTECHNIC OMUMA)

ABSTRACT In institutions of higher learning, the attendance of students in class is directly related to their academic performance. However, the record-keeping of most student attendance is still performed conventionally, which is tedious and time-consuming, especially that involve large classroom. Some higher education institutions now are encouraged to explore the potential use of Quick Response (QR) code and smartphone as a future attendance management system to track and record the student's attendance to the class and tutorial. In response, this study attempts to explain the design and implementation of a system developed using Google Drive, Google Forms, Google Sheets, and QR code images. Students were required to scan the unique QR code image assigned to them using the Attendiz Mobile App downloaded from the Google Play Store during or at the beginning of each lecture in order to confirm their attendance. This affordable QR code-based attendance system enables lecturers to speed up the process of taking attendance, especially in a large classroom and would save them valuable teaching time. The proposed system provides better security than the conventional methods that depend on the sign-in sheet or roll calling student names including eliminating chances of students signing up for others who may not be present. In addition, it also provides a faster and simpler way to take attendance, which could be easily adopted by lecturers to facilitate the process of taking, managing and keeping the record of students’ attendance.