“E-Attendance”: An Online Attendance Management System

Project Domain / Category
Web Application
Abstract/Introduction
“E-Attendance” is a web-based Attendance Management System for XYZ University.
The aim of this system is to manage the student’s daily attendance which is entered
by the faculty members. Details regarding the different users involved in the system
and the functions which they can perform are given below
Functional Requirements:
Following are the users of this system. Each user must log-in first, to use the system.
• Faculty Member
• Head of Department
• Controller Examination
• Admin
Responsibilities and functions of each user are given below:
Faculty Member:
1. There are multiple faculty members in each department. Each faculty
member teaches multiple courses and, in each course, multiple students can
be enrolled, on the other hand one student can be enrolled in multiple
courses as well. The faculty member can save the attendance record of
multiple students in multiple courses.
2. Faculty member can access and browse the courses in the system which he
teaches. He will enter attendance record on daily basis and can submit. After
the submission he cannot update the records.
3. The faculty member can open the page of any specific course assigned to him.
4. The information which a faculty member can access include 3 non-editable
and 3 editable contents/attributes:
a. Non-Editable
▪ Faculty Member Employee ID
▪ Faculty Member Name
▪ Faculty Member Designation
b. Editable
▪ Attendance
▪ Date

▪ Time
Head of Department:
1. There are multiple departments in university and each department is headed
by a senior faculty member.
2. The head of department assigns the courses to the teachers from a separate
interface.
3. This user can see the information of all the courses of all degrees (offered by
his department)
4. The information which a Head of Department can access for each course
include 5 non-editable attributes:
a. Non-Editable
▪ Faculty Member Employee ID
▪ Faculty Member Name
▪ Faculty Member Designation
▪ Attendance
▪ Date Time
Controller Examination:
This user has the authority to only see the complete information of/provided
by first two users.
Admin
1. Admin is the power user and has the rights of all three users.
Proposed Tools: Java, Dotnet Framework, MySQL, SQL server etc.