SMS GATEWAY AND BARCODE TECHNOLOGY FOR PRESENCE OF STUDENTS IN SMK UNGGULAN TERPADU PGII BANDUNG: a Case Study
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2016-04-26
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Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University
Abstract
Students in Indonesia have been cutting classes for
some time now and it has become a bad habit. They leave their
house towards their educational institutions, either school or
college, but in fact, they go somewhere else. The issue was
supported by the lack of communication between the school and
parents related to student attendance. Dealing with the problems
mentioned above, it is needed to create an SMS Gateway
application for student presence as a solution. Application-based
student presence SMS Gateway was made to ensure that students
attend classes, by steps as follow: firstly, students must hand in
the ID card to the teacher on duty, the teacher will then scan the
barcode printed on the card, and finally the data will be recorded
and be saved in the database automatically. The data will be
saved automatically every day, and then it will be sent personally
to their parents who had their mobile phones registered to
receive information regarding their children presence at school
on the particular date and hour. In addition, this application
provides service for the parents to find the information on weekly
and monthly basis. This application can also be a part of
consideration in decision making for the principals by
downloading student attendance data in Microsoft Excel file
format. The implementation of the applications based on SMS
gateway for students presence at school was expected to be a
solution for the problems of student absence due to skipping
school. This application has been tested in SMK Unggulan
Terpadu PGII Bandung with very satisfying results and the level
of student absence was able to be fixed.
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Absences, SMS Gateway, Barcode, Presence