Registration Systems

OMR

• Teachers are given an OMR form with class lists each week and they put a black mark whether present or absent.

• The form is read by computer and an absent list produced.

• The teacher marks the reason for the absence in the correct space on the OMR form.

Radio tags

• As pupils enter a classroom the PC detects their presence from the tag and adds the information to the central register.

Admin software on PC / laptop / tablet / phone

• Teachers take the register on their machines and the information is transferred electronically to the central server.

Bromcom/wireless

• In some schools the teachers have a specialised device with a wireless link to the admin server.

• Teachers fill in an attendance form at the beginning of every lesson and this is wirelessed up to the office

Smart cards

• Each pupil has their own smart/swipe card which they swipe through a computer at the beginning of registration and every lesson.

• This data is sent to the office either by wireless or by file transfer.

Biometrics

• Each pupil as they enter the classroom they place their thumb on the fingerprint reader.

• This data is sent electronically to the office. (same for retina scanning).

Advantages of Computer Based Registration Systems

• Saves teachers/teaching time

• Improved attendance

• Easier to spot absence patterns

• Improved tracking of attendance cuts down internal truancy

• Automatic SMS messages to parents

• Automatic creation of statistics, automatic archiving /sharing of data

• Know which pupils are in and are late

• Know where pupils are all times if year tutor wants to see them

• Printout report summary to check pupils % attendance

• Multiple access points to the data