Attendance Monitoring System 1

Introduction Through the different stages of civilizations man always tried to look for ways to make their work and life easier. Man was never satisfied, so the concept of automation was applied to give solutions to different problems from the different fields of Agriculture, Industry, Academic and much more. Most of the companies or institutions nowadays are implementing automated techniques and processes to meet their growing needs, and it can be best defined by widely used of computers and other devices. According to the website polson.k12.mt.us, “Students usually begin each new school year with excitement and enthusiasm – even if they don’t show it to adults. The anticipation of new classes, new friendships, and renewing old friendship provides real motivation for daily attendance at school during those first few weeks.” Unfortunately, after a few weeks some students, particularly those who don’t perform well in school, become careless about regular attendance. Missing a few classes seems inconsequential to them. It is important for a student to have regular school attendance, because it is difficult for young people to learn if they’re not in class. In addition, most of the lessons are presented to students based upon or related to those that preceded it. Therefore, student who misses a day of school also misses a day of education which cannot be retrieved. There are also researches that show that those students who have regular school attendance are more likely to be successful during their school years. It is the school officials particularly the instructors, to maintain and monitor the student’s attendance, doing this task is not an easy job, because it should be done on a daily basis. But even if the schools do their job in monitoring and maintaining the students’ attendance, another task which is informing the parents or guardians of the student if the student missed or skipped a class. AMA Computer College Cabanatuan branch

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