Abstract

Information is an important part of any system. In the academic world, information is especially very important and essential. Students have to register for courses, take attendance, quizzes, and exams and as well as check their scores. Years after graduating from the school, students come back asking for transcript. It is therefore very important to handle students’ records in a way that is accessible, maintainable and secure. The manual method of cumulating and storing student record is often prone to various degrees of human error and is also unsecured making it exposed to unauthorized personnel. This paper presents the design and development of a biometric student record management that provides an interface between student and the institution to enable prompt checking of grades, as well as track their progress and efficiently record each student’s attendance for every lecture attended through the use of a biometric device. The methodology used in developing this system is the waterfall methodology and this was used because it is a one dimensional model, meaning it is very easy to implement and also the documentation is done at the beginning of the software development. During the course of this research, it was realized that developing a biometric student record management system was a herculean task. This system was given to random students to use and 90% of them loved the interactive nature of the system. A projection of record growth in relation to student population and system requirement was carried out in the study.