Online Classroom Attendance System based on Cloud Computing

: Attendance of students in the classroom is one of mark representation of total marking after finish the end of class, some of the students are cheating they are attendance while manual system by sign in the form of attendance. Furthermore, manual attendance is ineffective way while digital technology is available and widely used nowadays and waste of papers. This research discusses on automatic attendance system for students and lecturers, where every student before entering classroom have to tap their student card on RFID reader and before out need to tap as well. Duration of time set as tolerance of lately as well as for early out of the classroom. Similar to students, every lecture required to tap as well before and after teaching in a classroom, besides that lecturer required to hold his card on RFID reader to on electricity in the classroom else no electricity and no power in the classroom. The data of students and lecturer attendance with room number is set and send to a database for student’s attendance and honorarium for lecturer. This system tested in a classroom of Faculty of Engineering, Islamic University of Riau with the number of students 40 people. Data collected by RFID reader passed to the cloud server which controls by University information technology and connects to the payroll system in the finance department. The system gives effective and efficiency in administration, while no more manual record as well as clerk, do not need to summary lecturer attendance at the end of the month for an honorarium. Paperless and efficiency for staff to control and manual attendance is one of the advantages of this system, and also students and lecturer unable to cheat their attendance in double class teaching at the same time.