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Developing an automatic attendance register system for CPUT
Ivanilson Ganga Francisco
Cape Peninsula University of Technology [e-mail] Boniface Kabaso
Cape Peninsula University of Technology [e-mail] Fernando Neto
Cape Peninsula University of Technology [e-mail] Abstract
Attendance register is a fundamental and compulsory tool in the academic environment. Despite the use of different mechanisms in the IT Department in CPUT to track students’ attendance, problems remain because there is not a standard format for the attendance register, what makes the manual analysis of it inconvenient, time consuming and inaccurate. A standardised and consistent attendance register system does not exist in CPUT. The paper presents a network based automatic attendance register system with use of RFID technology as the solution to ensure the well being of the institution and academic progression of students. An electronic solution is a more effective mechanism to for collection, processing, storage and production of attendance reports and long-term analysis.

Keywords: academic attendance, RFID, attendance registers system.

List of Acronyms
RFID

Radio frequency identification

QR Codes

Quick response codes

CPUT

Cape Peninsula University Technology

IT

Information technology

Developing an automatic attendance register system for CPUT

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1. INTRODUCTION
Academic attendance register is a very important and compulsory tool in the process of learning; it helps lecturers track students individually and measure their interest.
Academic attendance is indeed one of the key factors that determine students’ performance (Durden & Ellis, 1995). Even though there is no causal relationship between students’ high attendance and good academic performance; but there is a positive correlation between them; in general students with good or excellent academic performance have high attendance

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