Android based Attendance Management using QR Code

Abstract

Until today, most of the lectures in universities are found still using the conventional methods of taking student’s attendance either by calling out the student names or by passing around an attendance sheet for students to sign conforming their presence. In addition to the time-consuming issue, such method is also at high risk of having students cheating about their attendance, especially in a large classroom. Therefore, a method of taking attendance by employing an application running the Android platform is proposed in this paper. This application once installed can be used to download the students list from a designated web server. Based on the downloaded list of students, the device will then act like a scanner to scan each of the students card one by one to confirm and verify the student’s presence. The device camera will act as a sensor that will read the QR code printed on the student’s card. The updated attendance list is then uploaded to an online database and can also be saved as a file to be transferred to a PC later on.