Attendance Management System

* TABLE OF CONTENTS

* Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 0

GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY 2

1.1 Introduction 2

1.2 Objectives of the Study 4

1.2.1 General Objectives 4

1.2.2 Specific Objectives 4

1.3 Subject and Field of Study 5

1.4 Research Problem Statement 5

1.5 The Methodology/Method 5

1.6 Background Study and the Justification of the Project 7

1.7 Significance of the Study 8

1.8 Expected Outcome 9

1.9 Safety, Environmental and Economic Aspects 9

1.10 Limitations and Delimitations of the Study 10

1.11 Definitions of terms 11

1.12 Presentation of Thesis 12

1.13 Project Implementation and Schedule 13

1.14 Conclusion 14

1.15 References 15

CHAPTER TWO 16

1.16 UGANDA AND ITS ATTENDANCE ISSUES 18

1.17 2.2 Northern Arizona University to Use Existing RFID Student Cards for Attendance Tracking 22

1.18 2.3 UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON 24

1.19 2.5 UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORSHIRE 30

1.20 2.6 HID R DeVry University 33

1.21 2.7 College Attendance Management System (CAMS) 37

CHAPTER ONE

* GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY

Introduction

For many educational and other institutions, tracking attendance can be a time-consuming and tedious chore. Typically, a lecturer takes attendance manually, by mentioning each student’s name for them to respond when his or her name is called, or by scanning the classroom to determine which students are present. The lecture then writes the information down, and it is transmitted to the school administration, often by hand. If a student enters the class late, after attendance has been taken, the lecture must take note of that fact, and interrupt teaching to update his or her attendance records, does it later or even forgets.

At least one automated attendance monitoring system has already been developed, and this system uses student-specific identity tags or cards and wireless readers to track the physical location of students. See U.S. patent application No....