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Flaws with the manual process (continued):
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students that write their details (particularly their student numbers)
in an unreadable manner,
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manual capturing of these lists are time consuming
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difficult to determine the exact number of sessions attended by a
student (many lecturers only perform these actions at the end of
the course),
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without access to timely attendance data - patterns and
problematic situations cannot easily be determined which could
have allowed for responsive and corrective measures to be put
into place, and finally
–
printing an excessive amount of pages’ - wasting resources (700
students) +- 750 pages/semester/module