Attendance Monitoring
Uni Nanny is an electronic attendance monitoring system, primarily designed for Universities and Colleges to help improve attendance and retention. The Uni Nanny system is mobile, reducing registration time. The software improves the management of student attendance and can be imported into other student information systems, which can indicate any attendance problems. If attendance is measured using attendance monitoring software, attendance tracking is improved resulting in students being less likely to miss lectures meaning improved exam results and retention.
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How Does It Work?
Workplaces have been using attendance monitoring software for the management of student attendance for a number of years. This is generally a ‘clocking in’ process where people visit a fixed unit which is positioned at a central point. This is impractical on large, dispersed college and university campuses where there are several entry points to buildings. The Uni Nanny system is mobile and used within classrooms, thus eliminating queues and time-wasting registration procedures and the need for many fixed units across the university or college.
The Uni-Nanny system is unique because it has completely eliminated the need for fixed units and is much more appropriate for students attendance monitoring and management. There are basically four stages to the Uni-Nanny process:
Stage 1
The lecturer attends a learning event (e.g. lecture, tutorial etc.) with a small electronic baton, and a ‘fob’ for that learning event. At the beginning of the learning event, he/she places the fob near the baton – a process which takes seconds. The lecturer then passes the baton to the students.
Stage 2.
The baton is then passed around the learning event, which could be a lecture, a tutorial, a seminar, or even an outdoor practical. Each student introduces their fob to the baton. It is estimated that the process is at least four times quicker than students signing their name on paper
Stage 3.
The baton has finally returned to the lecturer in much the same way as a piece of paper would be handed around all the students in the class and returned at the end. The lecturer might use the same baton for any number of learning events that day or that week but lecturers are encouraged to take the batons back to the central administration area on a daily basis, where the information can be downloaded to the database. The data that is downloaded is held on a local machine and also automatically updated to a central web server.
Stage 4.
Administrators can now monitor students’ attendance, using information on their local machine, or they can use more complicated search facilities, which is web-based. Administrators can also issue usernames and passwords to other members of staff who may wish to monitor the attendance of their own classes.