I Am (Still) Here!

Abstract

Students must be accounted for in a classroom environment, and there are several methods to ensure student checking. Traditionally, attendance can be done with paper-based solutions such as the signing of attendance sheets. However, this is unreliable, time-wasting, and not scalable. In this paper, we describe an automated, costless, portable, web-based platform that is resilient to fraud thanks to device fingerprinting techniques, retrieving indicators such as the user-agent, IP address, fonts installed, geolocation, and others. Various simulations tested our solution and proved that the platform could detect fraud using the fingerprinting mechanism and the geolocation method.