Thesis (MSc) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Computer Engineering Department

Includes bibliography (sheets 55-56)

ABSTRACT
Educational institutions and companies are switching to online attendance systems
due to the disadvantages of classic registration systems based on signature logbooks,
class attendance sheets, and all those manually processed ones that take time and are
prone to errors due to human involvement in the process.
An online QR attendance system aims to solve the above-mentioned difficulties by
allowing students to take attendance through their mobile phones in a short time of 6-
7 seconds and make sure that each mobile phone will be restricted to one account by
getting the mobile phone id of the student. Therefore, their attendance records are
registered into a common database and can be accessed by the instructor for different
purposes. In addition, the aim here is to help the instructor to collect the attendance in
an easy and secure way. At the end of the semester, the instructor can easily get the
report of any student and the number of absences in class.
The proposed system is implemented and designed using Phpstorm as IDE, Laravel,
and Ionic as frameworks. The experimental result shows that the proposed system
needs less than one minute for taking attendance.
Keywords: Attendance System, Education, QR Code, Real Time.