A Suggested Model for Using a Students Attendance Management Information Systems/ A Case Study In Lebanese French University/ Erbil

Abstract

This study aims to design unified  electronic information system to manage students attendance in Lebanese French university/Erbil, as a system that simplifies the process of entering and counting the students absence, and generate absence reports to expel students who passed  the acceptable limit of being absent, and by that we can replace the traditional way of  using papers to count absence,  with  a complete electronically system for managing students attendance, in a way that makes the results accurate and unchangeable by the students.

            In order to achieve the study's objectives, we designed an information system by using Visual Basic.net programming language, and connecting it with a Microsoft access database, and we chose Lebanese French university as a research scope.

The importance of the study lies in its shading the light on the importance of student's attendance management system and its contribution in organizing absence and attendance information in the university, in addition to clarifying the reasons of student's absence either its justified or unjustified, and generating the first and the final warning for the students who passed the acceptable limit.

The research problem lies in using the university an old fashioned way of registering absence of the students without having a complete system with a programmed databases and interface, in addition to  wasting of the time & the effort of the teacher.

The study was ended with a group of conclusions, the most  important one is that students attendance management  system represents a completed system that depends on a central database connected with all of the teachers, and this system generates reports daily, weekly, monthly, and depending on the conclusion the study ended with a set of recommendation including the necessity of removing  traditional methods of registering absence and depending completely on registering it electronically through the suggested system to minimize the time, effort, and having most accurate results of the generated reports.