Attendance Monitoring System

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Project Context

The advancement of technology today has immersed itself towards education. The presence of technology has reached its maximum of providing sustainable technology towards quality education through delivery and effective learning.[1] Merry Sunshine Montessori School is our target school.

Attendance is very important in every student, a single absent is big difference in performance in the school. Mostly students of high school are prone to absences, it is because of some reasons that they think it is a boring class, laziness to attend the class, some students prefer going to computer shops playing games rather than entering the class and some student cannot refuse the influence of a friend inviting to go with them during class period. Some of this reasons are not reported to the parents or guardians because the way of informing them is the traditional way which is they inviting the parents through telling the students that the parent need come to school and communicate with the teacher about the absenteeism of the student. This process takes a long process and sometimes parents are not able to come because of some reasons that the parents are busy at work; they are away from the school and have an important matter to take care of. These are the reason why the parents are not informed about the absenteeism of the students.

In this manner, the researchers therefore proposed the Attendance Monitoring with Short Message Service (SMS). The design and development of the system consists of a windows-based system. The first platform is the stand alone or window-based system. The stand alone or window-based system’s function is to record attendance. If the student is absent and it is recorded to the stand alone system or window-base system, it will open a form that contains the SMS application that has a function to send a notification to parent that the student is absent. Saving of attendance in the stand alone or window-based...