THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMPLE AND ADAPTIVE DIGITAL TOOL TO RECORD STUDENTS' ATTENDANCE

Abstract

Keeping a record of attendance is a practice as old as the world and still as useful as ever, but being an old practice doesn’t imply keeping to old methods, as much as every other aspect of modern human life, attendance registers are long overdue going through a digitization process. Creating a single-purpose digital attendance register for a specific field may seem ideal, it can be done relatively quickly, requiring at most a month of development time but other requirements such as multi-platform availability could increase either the development time or deployment costs of the solution and it could also become obsolete and require a complete re-writing in a year or two if any major changes to the structure of the organization happen. This paper proposes a digital solution for attendance register, which can easily and quickly be modified to accommodate any changes or even switching to a completely different field or type of organization, the minimum development time of such a project would begin at three months for full functionality with security adding another month or two however when done it would run on all major platforms and could be modified in as low as a single day to offer as a ready-made solution to a different organization and could also easily integrate hardware-based attendance tracking mechanisms.

Keywords

• digitization
• attendance register
• students
• employees
• services
• products
• programming