The Design and Implementation of Student Attendance Tracking System Using QR Code Card

In institutions of higher learning, the attendance of students to the class is directly related to their academic performance. However, the record-keeping of most student attendance is still performed conventionally, which is tedious and time consuming, especially that involve large classroom. Higher education institutions in Malaysia are now encouraged to explore the potential use of Quick Response (QR) code and smartphone as a future attendance management system to track and record the student's attendance to the class and tutorial. In response, this study attempts to explain the design and implementation of a proposed system developed using Google Drive, Google Form, Google Sheet, Notepad, and QR Code Generator Add-ons in Google Sheet. Students were required to scan the unique QR code assigned to them using their smartphone during or at the beginning of each lecture in order to confirm their attendance. This affordable QR code-based attendance system enables lecturers to speed up the process of taking attendance, especially in a large classroom and would save them valuable teaching time. The proposed system provides better security than the conventional methods that depend on the sign-in sheet or roll calling student names including eliminating chances of students signing up for others who may not be present. In addition, it also provides a faster and simpler way to take attendance, which could be easily adopted by lecturers to facilitate the process of taking, managing and keeping the record of students' attendance.