Students usually love the time when teachers take attendance because once the individual has said aloud ‘Present’ against his/her name, it usually becomes playtime for them. However, attendance is never a game for teachers, and when done manually, they often find it to be one of the most attention-seeking and time-consuming aspects of their work. If slightly wrong, corrections might take hours.
As NEP 2020 continually stresses empowering teachers, easing manual attendance work frees teachers to focus more on the teaching-learning process.
Online attendance applications are great work assistants for teachers and school management. When students can track their attendance, they find the system very transparent.
There are more points to add to the benefits of a student attendance application, including:
- Time-Saving: An application that helps mark attendance smoothly and sequentially, with customization and filters, saves teachers time. Online attendance applications allow teachers to utilize their quality time for student outcomes.
- Secure Data: Attendance apps eliminate the worry of wear and tear, loss, and misplacement of attendance sheets. Digitally marked attendance is safely stored, and only those with assigned portal access can view it, ensuring data protection.
- Production of Reports: Attendance reports dating back to previous sessions can be generated for the desired duration from anywhere, anytime with just a click. This ease is not offered in an offline sheet system.
- Environment Friendly: Digital attendance marking saves tons of paper used for something that can be done more efficiently online, contributing to a sustainable world.
- Data Sharing: Through the attendance management application, students and parents are daily updated with marked presence and absence. This helps strengthen a school system that keeps students informed.
These are the benefits that an online attendance application brings with it. In a time when we strive for an emphasized focus on the knowledge and skill development of students, resulting from providing support to teachers, an online management system must be adopted by every 21st-century school.