MAM uses RFID / Smart Card technology paired with a node.js backend to record and monitor the attendance of students.
The goal of this project is to make the process of monitoring attendance simpler for all parties involved. Currently attendance to labs can be monitored by swiping a student card to sign in to the session; the same is not true for lectures.
Attendance to lectures is currently monitored using a traditional paper based sign in sheet. While effective this system does not allow for easy manipulation of data and does not provide any sort of analysis of a session.
Lectures could use the same wired swipe in system as the labs do, however this would be a hassle to implement and rather costly. A simple solution to this would be to have a mobile, connected swipe-in system that a lecturer could carry with them.
The lecturer could then place this at the front of a lecture theatre and allow all students in attendance to swipe in using their student ID cards. When swiped the student number from the card would be stored for access by the lecturer at a later date.
For this mobile attendance monitoring system to function correctly, a request must be made to the API with the correct authentication permissions.