INTRODUCTION

Due to student’s interest in classrooms, and whose is the largest union in the study environment of university or institution, so recording absence at a department having a large number of students in a classroom is a difficult task and time-consuming. Moreover, the process takes much time, and many efforts are spent by the staff of the department to

complete the attendance rates for each student. So in many institutions and academic organizations, attendance is a very important criterion which is used for various purposes. These purposes include record keeping, assessment of students, and promotion of optimal and consistent attendance in class. As long as in many developing countries, a minimum percentage of class attendance is required in most institutions and this policy has not been adhered to, because of the various challenges the present method of taking attendance presents. The process of recording attendances for students was in the form of hard copy papers and the system was manually done. Besides wasting time and taking efforts for preparing sheets and documents, other disadvantages may be visible to the traditional one due to loss or damage to the sheets-sheet could be stolen. The developed system considers as an alternative to the traditional one, it is easy, fast and reliable than the traditional one, especially after the development of information technology and its usage by educational institution Therefore, the design of student attendance system has a significant reality meaning.The system is a Web-based application developed for daily student attendance in departments within the university. It facilitates access to the attendance of a particular student in a particular class. This system will also help in generating reports and evaluating the attendance eligibility of a student. The system is not only improving the work efficiency, students’ study and development, but also can save human and material resources.

Recently, there has been so much research in the development students absence and attendance system, some of which include Internet systems like web-based system, mobile-based attendance system, some of the others computerized attendance system

with hardware technology like fingerprint based attendance system, iris-based attendance system, face recognition based attendance system, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) based attendance system, and others need communication technology like Bluetooth  based attendance system, NFC (Near Field Communication) based attendance system  and other systems such as using technologies utilized in. According to  Web application attendance management system used SMS software technology to send SMS easily to student parent. The system can store in details all data about the students and those cares absent. The advantage of it using efficient techniques to store and update the student attendance and report in the Web Site rather than wasting the paper as well as decreasing the faculty’s time also.  The system has other technique to register the

attendance according to  Web service for student attendance management system is used a QR Code technology to register the student presence by scanning the QR Code using a QR Code scanner. Then this information delivered to the server, where the server

makes the call to the API.There is multitude developed Web-Based Student Attendance System using Radio Frequency Identification technology will significantly improve the

current manual process of student attendance recording and tracking system, especially in a university or school environment because it is easy to connect data of internet. The system promotes a semi-automated approach in capturing the student attendance, i.e. by

having the students to flash their student cards to the RFID reader. In most institutions attendance part of student's continuous valuation or there have conditions that student must be met before they allowed to sit for examinations so very important to us attendance management in educational institutions. The system required minimal hardware, NFC tag, and NFC-enabled mobile device. The benefits of like these systems

eliminate many paper works involved in it, removing the opportunity of losing attendance data, can generate different presence reports easily by a click of a mouse

 

The Student Attendance Management System (SAMS) has designed with the techno-ms architecture and implemented with the powerful Laravel Framework. In order to increase use of the application and make it easy to use and attractive, JavaScript and its j Query libraries, and AJAX use. In this section, explain the system contents will be presenting.

Database

The system uses MySQL as a language for the database, and the migration techniques for selecting a different type of databases for the system such as SQL

Server, Sq-lite, etc. Tables Eight tables have used for the system to has  been implementing. The tables are Object, Staff,Department, Course, Staff Course, Student, Record and Absence tables. The tables have normalized prior the implementation phase so as not to get redundancy in the facts to been a store. Later, relationships among them

have created. Figure 1 shows the details of the tables and their relationships

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Interface

The application is design with the latest technology of user interface designs by means of its simplicity, lightweight weighted pages, and responsive to all device screens. The system uses Bootstrap framework within it to increase the intuitive perceptions to the user.

System diagram

The system's diagram can illustrate in figure 2, starts from the simple page which works like the main gate to the system. There are two types of pages, staff

and student pages. Each of the pages asks about the login details which is an email and password, after entering the correct credentials, the users will go to their entrance. For students, a simple page that built containing student name, department, class, picture and all the involved courses with their attendance proportions. For the staff login, the entrance console is different depending on the role of the staff, which has described in the following section.

Core of the system

The system consists of two main parts, public, and private site. The public site is where everybody can visit it, while the private section is limit to authorized people. The public part consists of a simple page asking for the log in details. So, anyone with the credentials

can log in and check his/her attendance details. The private part has designed for staff of the system. There are 5 types of users for this part similar to the staff of University, and they are lists below from the highest level of privileges to the least level of privileges:

Full Admin User (FAU),

This type of user is normally used by the university registration directory to register all the details of students at the University. This user has all the privileges over the system to control everything within the system. Through this user, HDUs are creating. Head of Department User (HDU),

The head of the department at the university uses this user type to manage the department students. This user can create courses, credits of the courses, theoretical and practical hours for each course, create, department staff, lecturers, and assistant lecturers. This function used to assign the teachers to their courses.With the privileges of this user, editing the attendance details is possible to including the removal of a student

attendance. Since the students at each department are

categorizing according to their classes (stages), therefore, the first thing this user has to do is to create the department classes. Normally there are 4 classes/stages in each department to assign students to their classes. Afterwards, the courses are creating for each class, and students having these courses was insertinginto them. Later, the lecturers will assign to each course.Staff of Department User (SDU) This type of user works like a secretary of the department. Within this role, can show all the department's specifics, such as general information, staff details, course details, and classes. The attendance

information of involved students can also be  discovered, and they can generate reports. Reports can customize as follows: 1) all department students report,

2) a specific class report, 3) a specific course report, or 4) a specific student report. Reports can generate and downloaded as PDF or Spreadsheets formats.