Advantages of Using Smart Card to Fill In Class Attendance

Smart card generally, gives lots of advantages to the user. For this project, the researcher will explore the advantages of using smart card to fill in class attendance.

One of the advantages is using smart card will easier the students to fill in the class attendance. The time constraint of using smart card to fill in class attendance is small compared to the existing manual system which use attendance sheet. This is because smart card allows the system to get students' identification efficiently. The main improvement is the possibility to process the information directly on the card.

Other advantages is each student can use smart card securely because the unique identification that the smart card provide. Smart cards can of course retain a huge amount of information compared to the magnetic strip cards, but they can also manage this information much more securely, using authentication and user identification procedures.

Other advantage is using smart card in signature system can tackle student to attend to class. This is because the students know that the system can easily detect those students who regularly attend the class. The students can also view their class attendance percentage which will motivate them to control their attendance reputation.

            Usage of smart card gives advantages to the lecturer because the smart card will directly input the information of student attendance to the system. The lecturers do not have to carry the attendance sheet every class time and filing the attendance sheet manually which is not efficient Smart cards can improve access to services for the disabled and elderly. The lecturer can easily get the percentage of student attendance at the end of the semester without face the difficulties to calculate the percentage manually and view the standardize student attendance report.