Getting students to attend class: Using RFID-based attendance system to reduce absenteeism

With thousands of students dispersed across the campus, K-12 schools are struggling with inefficient attendance practices that underachieved students, put a drag on student success and threatening to dropouts. Worse, outdated onsite legacy software systems are costing thousands of dollars, with ever increasing licensing costs, risks and storage needs.

Schools no longer have to fight indiscipline

For several years, schools are searching for cost-effective ways to tackle these challenges. In the meantime school lived with frequent drop outs, which had a significant impact on student achievement. School records are expanding exponentially, and schools are maintaining records in multiple campuses in multiple locations. With heavy workload of staff, maintenance of attendance records were time-consuming and tardy.  

As education technology makes inroads into classrooms, it’s important for schools to adopt emerging technologies to enable students to achieve their unique potential.

Reduce absenteeism and track tardies

Attendance management is all about managing attendance to a successful outcome - whether that is reducing absenteeism and discipline or tracking down student tardies.

In cloud and mobile-based attendance management system, Creatrix Campus allows teachers to take attendance in a single click, which can be viewed from mobile devices at any time. It is highly secure since Creatrix allows administrators to restrict access through role-based permissions and privileges. Teachers can update a single desktop, and Creatrix automatically syncs with mobile devices. Previously, marking attendance took valuable time with manual paper process.

A day in the life of smart kid

With RFID or Biometric based attendance, students can swipe their ID card or use fingerprint to enter the campus classroom. Schools can manage time and attendance efficiently and provide convenient tracking and monitoring of attendance records even from remote location. Parents will get email notifications and SMS alerts, letting them know their child’s absence or insufficient attendance. Teachers can generate a variety of attendance reports to take data-driven decisions.

Empowering educators

RFID and Biometric-based school management system let schools track students’ attendance. Teachers could track tardiness and truancy and begin to see positive results immediately.

Reduction in absenteeism & dropout rate

Tardiness and disciplinary incidents will decrease in the first three months. School dropout rates will decrease significantly as well when compared to previous years.

Automated attendance management provides an accurate and consistent tracking process to make students accountable for their actions because the information is stored on the cloud. Students will be more motivated to attend classes on time and improve their achievement.