The ENHS Student Attendance Monitoring System

Abstract

Chronic absenteeism poses a widespread challenge in schools, prompting the need for an advanced attendance monitoring solution beyond the basic features provided by the Department of Education (DepEd) Commons. The Estancia National High School (ENHS), located in Estancia, Iloilo, which has more than 3,900 students and employs approximately 400 teachers, also encounters this problem. To address this issue, the ENHS Student Attendance Monitoring System (SAMS) was designed as a mobile application to streamline and automate attendance tracking processes. It was developed using the Flutter framework, Dart programming language, and NodeJS. It uses MySQL as the database and is currently hosted on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Instance running Ubuntu Linux 22. The resulting system allows teachers to input student absences per day and generate monthly reports on student absences. An alert is created when a student reaches a certain number of absences. The alert prompts the teacher to take action according to the number of absences. This proactive monitoring and alerting on student absences benefits students, teachers, and parents. Student absenteeism problems can be easily caught, tracked, and remediated before worsening.