Faculty Attendance Monitoring System: An Improved with Barcode Scanner
Higher education institutions (HEIs) seek ways to help students succeed at school. One way to make them academically successful is to ensure the regular attendance of the faculty at their classes. The importance of the teachers’ attendance at class is undeniable. Their attendance motivates students to attend their classes and students' presence in the class signifies a transfer of knowledge from the teacher to the students and vice versa. The Hel’s have their own way of monitoring the attendance of their faculty. Some schools use logbooks while some use computer-based systems such as biometrics, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID,) and barcodes. Each of the attendance monitoring systems has its own advantages and disadvantages. For one, the biometric system is basically used for identification and verification. Such system has three advantages in terms of accountability, efficiency, and profit. However, the system's verification function does not work all the time with all types of biometrics. This study aimed at designing and developing for Capitol University a barcode-based faculty attendance system using the System Development Life Cycle, especially the Waterfall Model, as framework. The development of the system was geared toward the improvement of the school's faculty attendance monitoring, making it efficient in terms of time, recording and coverage.