SATA: A New Students Attendance Tracking Application

The number of smartphone users has rapidly increased in the last decade due to their attractive features and useful applications (apps). On the other hand, manual attendance tracking may waste precious lecture time in addition to other problems. Accordingly, we have created a new Students Attendance Tracking Application (SATA). This app aims to enhance the process of tracking attendance in terms of time and effort in large universities. A course instructor generates a Quick Response code during a lecture and views it for a short time to the students who in turn scan the code and send back attendance requests to the instructor's device. Actually, a fingerprint authentication is required among other restrictions to prevent any possible manipulation. Moreover, SATA allows both instructors and students to show different types of reports and get useful notifications before and after lectures. In fact, our app was practically tested in a number of the University of Jordan faculties where it showed efficiency and credibility based on the outcomes of an evaluation survey filled by users.