Attendance tracker Android application
Ratna Mehta · California State University ScholarWorks (system-wide DSpace) · 2014
Taking attendance in a class can often be a time consuming and a manual process, which is prone to human error(s) and hence recording incorrect data.Also, querying the data per student can be the tedious process since it involves some sort of manual tracking/counting of days attended.With advent of smartphones and tablets which are very handy to use, this process can be made completely automated and error free by using the right technologies.For this project, I am creating an android based application that can be used for Attendance tracking which is easy to use and free from any manual tasks.Users (Professor/Course Instructor) just have to add courses he/she plans to take for Fall/Spring/Summer semester in the application.For each class that he conducts, students will just have to scan their student ID badge and the application will capture their unique student id from the badge using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technique via camera of the device.Once the student Id is recorded, application will update the appropriate attendance database for that particular course.v At any time, User can query the database to look at attendance of students for any particular course or look at attendance record for any student.An application like this is not only guaranteed to be accurate but also extremely easy to use now that smartphones/tablets are used in common.