A Web-Based School Identification and Attendance System

Abstract

One of the many challenges facing schools today is accurate identification and clearance of persons who brings a pupil to school in the morning and/or takes a pupil from school after closing hours. Nowadays there are several threats to pupils in the schools such as intruders, kidnappers and a known person to a pupil, who deceived parent of the child to be out-of-town. Nevertheless, in developing countries, most schools still depend on manual security and attendance system that is not 100% secured because of inevitable human errors. In this paper, a web-based school identification and attendance system using QR code was developed. The system was designed using UML diagrams and implemented using JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheet, and HTML5 in Microsoft Visual Studio Code for the frontend, and PHP and MySQL relational database management system for the backend. The system was tested/validated severally using arbitrary information, which shows that it was user-friendly, reliable, has fast response time and secured.