Abstract
The use of Google Meet has grown since the Covid-19 pandemic hits the world. Google Meet is an effective platform for delivering online education. Currently, Google Meet attendance sheets are only available through ‘G Suite Enterprise for Education’, requiring a subscription fee. For other user types, the Google Meet attendance extension is a good alternative. However, it comes with several disadvantages, including the inability to identify absent students and summarise the monthly attendance of students. As a solution, Google Meet Intelligent Attendance (GMiA2021) was developed, which includes a more systematic and easy-to-use multi-functional coordination and help track student absenteeism. This intelligent attendance system can connect directly to WhatsApp to remind students of class absences. GMiA2021 also allows lecturers to keep proof of absence and documents provided by the students and prepare monthly attendance reports, in line with academic rules to enable students with 80% attendance to sit for the examination. GMiA2021 is expected to help efficient monitoring of the student’s attendance and collaborations with university academic administration for a systematic attendance system.
Highlights
The global outbreak of Covid-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the education sector, leading to the closure of educational institutions (OECD 2020)
It is anticipated that this particular system may serve the following functions, (a) manage students’ absenteeism, (b) calculate the amount of time spent in class, (c) link letter of excuses to the attendance sheet, (d) send WhatsApp reminder, (e) facilitates the task of attendance taking, and (f) serve as an efficient communication tool between students, lecturers, and faculties for supervision purposes
In order to achieve the said objective, this project has developed GMiA2021 by combining technical knowledge of Excel’s tools, the programming language and a third-party application available on Google Chrome. It is a more systematic and user-friendly multi-functional coordination system that assists in the tracking of student absence
Summary
The global outbreak of Covid-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the education sector, leading to the closure of educational institutions (OECD 2020). Observation discovered several other problems with the current attendance system Such as its lack of accuracy, the inconvenience of calling the students’ names and filling in a form each time they attend class, and the difficulty of procedures for collecting and recording excuses of absence from absentees. This project aspires to address the said issues by introducing a new system that allows lecturers to monitor attendance more efficiently in an online teaching and learning environment. This section is followed by a discussion on the project outcomes, the product’s novelty, and a conclusion
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