University students create prototype attendance management system

Four AI and Data Science students from the University of Wolverhampton have recently completed an internship and created a prototype dashboard to support attendance management at the University. 

Students Youssef El Ghoulali, Mary Miti, Abhishek Angadi and Karan Shrestha, as part of an internship at the University, produced a working prototype using simulated data which could be deployed securely to any staff member who wished to use the dashboard to support students to improve their attendance.  

The dashboard included functionality to visualise student attendance by postcode, nationality, working status as well as permitting a deep dive by Faculty, School and course. 

It comes as the University uses an attendance management system which permits efficient recording of attendance and absence. The students as part of the internship worked alongside staff on what other efficiencies and business insights could be made available within the dashboard.  

 Dr. Liam Naughton, Associate Professor in Mathematics, said: “What we have here is an example of excellence shown by four tremendous students who were delighted to work on this internship alongside their studies.  

“The prototype they produced in a short period of time could save staff countless hours by introducing efficiencies in how we support students.  

“They achieved all of this without ever getting their hands on real data. All we had to do was provide the parameters and the characteristics of the data and these students did the rest.” 

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