Electronics&TelecommunicationDepartment

Students ' attendancerecords are important documents for academic institutions thatreflect the students'performancesand thecredibilityofthe academic institutions.Nevertheless,the process of managing these documentshad been done manually, bypen andpapersthusmakingitlessefficient. This paper discussesabout thedevelopmentof thenew OnlineAttendanceSystem astheenhancementofthe previous developed system named Attendance Register Systemfor higher academic institutions. The new online system Is being developed by adapting the concept of the web-based system architecture. The web-based system architecture used in the development of this system involves integration of various open source web-based technologies such as MySQL,PHP and WebServer hence making the Online Attendance System more efficient and cost effective. The development of the Online Attendance System involves four main phases which are the construction of the conceptual framework where the scopes and requirements as well as the target users of the system had been identifie, developing the proposed system's architecture by adapting to the web-based architecture,and the construction ofthe logical design and the physical design. The Online Attendance System consists of automated processes such as able to generate on line attendance reports, warning letters and graph charts thus making the processes of recording and reporting the students ' attendances more efficient and well-organize