QR Code Based Attendance Management System

Over the years, attendance management has been conducted manually at Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University. To overcome the manual attendance issues, the system developer proposed and implemented a smart attendance system with the aim of encouraging the potential use of the Quick Response (QR) code as a future attendance management system to track and record student attendance in lectures and exercises for all relevant courses. It will help to get customized reports of eligibility calculations for the students in the final end-of-semester examination. The QR Code based Attendance Management System in Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University is the Web application that structured and organized the way of attendance of students. The admin of the website Management Assistant have the full authority to the system operation. He can generate add the new student details into the system, QR Code generation according to the course modules, track the attendance of the student, give warning to the students about low percentage of attendance and provide customized reports for the eligibility calculation. The admin has the authority to track, filter, edit and delete the student attendance. This system will reduce the paperwork and provide efficiency for the department. The students can scan the QR code using the web application and view the percentage of the attendance. The developer planned the implemented system can be modify into the Mobile application in further development. The implemented system helps to reduce paper work, reduce human error, reduce time waste, and avoid fake signatures. This system will be a benchmark for universities attendance management systems.