A mobile web application for attendance management using geolocation

Abstract

Attendance Management is the art of managing the attendance of students in the class to minimize loss due to productivity and student absence. The most common method of attendance taking is the paper method such that students fill in their name and matric number and then sign using their signature, this is one of the most inaccurate and time-consuming methods and it is still being used in almost all universities. Therefore, due to all these factors mentioned above, an alternative solution was worked on to reduce or eliminate these problems by bringing about a cost-effective, efficient, and more accurate solution using geolocation. The system only allows you to be able to take attendance only when you are within the location of the venue through your mobile phone. This is a web application that works on mobile phones. It was developed using the visual studio IDE, Geolocation API, (HTML 5, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, BOOTSTRAP) for frontend and (PHP, XAMP server and MYSQL) for the backend. The application used bootstrap mainly for the user interface and HTML 5 for texts on the web app and for form validation, CSS is the main tool used for the styling and design of the app, JavaScript and jQuery were used for event handling at the frontend. For the backend logic, PHP was used, and MySQL was used for the database and XAMP was used to host the web app locally. The attendance system was validated using User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Quality Assurance Testing (UAT).