RFID based teachers’ attendance logging system.

Abstract

In a school setting identification of teachers with regard to attendance of lessons takes a major concern of every stake holder in the education sector. With the current trend in Ugandan schools where teacher(s) presence in a school is realized by signing an arrival/departure book and lesson attendance books, this is not enough to guarantee attendance to the lesson because this is rather too manual and synchronizing the two books becomes difficult. Even with lesson attendance books which only provide for time in and time out don’t cater for the various time lost due to the long or rather short breaks out of class that accumulates to valuable lost contact time to learners. The system developed provides a working solution since it is based on RFID technology where the teacher is automatically supervised by the Administrator. With this system the classroom module with the help of an RFID reader an RF card that is carried by the teacher is automatically scanned every time the card passes the reader and this information is relayed by the transceiver using RF technology to the system connected to the database on a computer in the Administrator’s office. The data kept by the system provides a basis for evaluating the performance of a teacher in specific period of time.