Purpose and Description

In our life today, the computer is one of many inventions that greatly affect
our way of living. In fact, it is noted as an essential tool in many areas including
business, government, industry, sciences, education, school, home, and in almost
any company and establishment that existed. It can perform process data rapidly,
accurately and reliable and by using these machines, spending a lot of time and
effort in doing a certain task is minimized.

Computer nowadays has become the most needs of data and information
processing. Computers have been very effective in many fields of work and study.
It certainly helps man to make his task much easier and with great precision. In
schools and universities, computers are used to maintain the basic flow of data and
information and checking the credit status of the students. The computer is very
useful in performing a great task in data and information processing, securing files,
data, and information of the schools and people belong to it. Computer programmers
now a day try to build and develop high-quality systems that are very useful. A
computerized management system maintains the standard flow of data and
information with highly secured and make data processing faster and easier. These
computerized systems help one person, company, organization or any type of
management agency throughout the world to enhance and develop its general
profile.

School attendance is a baseline factor in determining student success. (Great

Schools Staff, 2016) The attendance is important because students are more likely
to succeed in academics when they attend school consistently. It’s difficult for the
teacher and the class to build their expertise and growth if a large number of students
are often absent. In addition to falling behind in academics, students who are not in
school on a regular basis are more likely to get into difficulty with the law and cause
problems in their communities.

Purpose and Description

The purpose of this study (Attendance Monitoring System Thesis) is to
identify the problems regarding the attendance monitoring of the RTTNHS Su-ay
Ext and to implement what is needed by the school. This study is to enhance
students’ and teachers’ attendance performance and school security. This study will
develop a system to help the staff and make their attendance monitoring easy and
their work with less effort.
 With the system, provides a user-friendly environment and effective
performance system, this will provide an easier and faster access to the data of every
student and teacher in their Attendance Report.

Objectives
The objective of this study (Attendance Monitoring System Thesis Chapter
1) is to give a solution to the problem in the existing system and to create a system
that will help the school to make the attendance monitoring more accurate and to
prove that the system developed is effective and helpful. This study is generally to
monitor the students and teachers; attendance and to evaluate performance,
according to their attendance. Specifically, this will answer the following
objectives;

Specific Objectives:
1. To allow teachers to monitor students who are not actively attending the
school.
2. To secure the attendance record of the students and teachers.
3. To automate summary and remarks for attendance, the participation of every
student.

Scope and Limitations

The proposed Attendance Monitoring System is designed and developed for
the school year 2016-2017 at Raymundo T. Tongson National High School Su-ay
Extension. There were 350 students from Grade 7 to Grade 10. It has 12 teaching
staff, including the Teacher-In charge as the school head.

The design and platform of the project is a windows-based system that

manages the user and client registration and provides the functionality of recording
the individual records of the students and teachers. The system also provides a
search capability and generates reports of the attendance.

Significance of the Study

Administrator. The school administrator can easily monitor both student’s and
teacher’s daily attendance.
Parents. The parents can have a record of their student attendance for the purpose of
information about the performance of their students.
Student. The students can easily enter and record their daily attendance in a timely
manner and have the record when they needed.
Teachers. The teachers can easily enter and record their daily attendance in a timely
manner and have the record when they needed.
Future Researchers. The future researchers can use our study as their guide of
reference for their future researchers that are related to the database management
system.

CHAPTER 2

Background of the Study

Raymundo T. Tongson National High School Suay Extension (formerly
known as Vicente B. Figueroa National High School, in honor of the lot donor) is
an annex school of Raymundo T. Tongson National High School, Talaban,
Himamaylan City. It is located in Purok RD, Barangay Su-ay, Himamaylan City,
Negros Occidental with lot area of more or less 3,000 square meters with a total
enrolment of 350 students from Grade 7 to Grade 10. The school has 12 teaching
staff including the Teacher-In charge as the school head. It is a secondary school
under the Department of Education Funded by the National Government.

The RTTNHS Su-ay Extension uses a manual transaction such as enrollment,

attendance and library management. This problem is very common to some schools
especially in some areas that are far located in the city. Nowadays, the students’
population is rapidly increasing and this is a big problem for the schools to have a
manual transaction and operation.

In order to give a solution to this problem, developing a computerized and

automated transaction is a great solution for the schools. This will benefit not only
the school but also the students, teachers, and staff that will make the work more
reliable and economical.

Related Systems

Fingerprint-based Attendance Monitoring System

Monitoring student attendance in the UK has become a verdure concern for
Universities in recent months, due to a perceived lack of accuracy in reports
submitted to the UK Borders Agency and political burden about broad immigration
issues. This project proposes a biometric-based solution to that interest which also
adapt to legislative pressures on data governance and information security, but
which can grant precise, decent data for the institution to use in future reports to
UKBA All biometric techniques obviate to need to carry a token or card, or to
remember several passwords, and reduce the risk of lost, forgotten or copied
passwords, robbed tokens or over the shoulder intrusion, This project shall focus on
using fingerprint recognition, mainly due to the low-cost of devices for deployment
and high user compliance.

Fingerprint recognition has commonly used for data access amongst a mobile
community with increasingly portable devices, but it can also be employed for
observation purposes, and