Implementation of Electronic
Student Attendance Monitoring
Systems
A single solution to multiple needs
Earl Blake, University of East London, e.blake@uel.ac.uk
The Need
• UKBA compliance
• Student Engagement
• EMR return to HESA
The options
• Manual registers
• Electronic registers completed by staff
• Fully automated electronic registers
Why we chose fully automated
electronic registers
• Reduces workload for academic staff
• Eliminates human error and late submission of registers
• Complies with UKBA regulations
• Can be used to feed into broader student engagement
analyses
• Can be used for accurate utilisation analyses
• Transparency
How it works
• Electronic attendance readers in every teaching room
• RFID chips in student cards
• Students touch in before the class
• Registers generated automatically
• Students able to view their attendance record online
• Data feeds directly into student engagement and
utilisation analyses
The challenges
• Staff culture
• Student culture
• Disconnected policies
• Inaccurate timetables
• Quantity of data
Solutions
• Staff and student engagement
• Communication campaigns
• Centralisation of policy
• Ongoing awareness of timetabling
• Questions?