Automation of attendance by using OMR attendance sheet formats

Most schools and colleges follow the traditional way of taking attendance, i.e., via roll call and marking the attendance register to indicate whether the student is present or absent. At the end of every month, the attendance is calculated manually and sent to the board or university. While this is simple when the attendance has to be taken only once in a day, calculating the attendance of every student for every lecture is really tedious. This is where OMR attendance sheets come into picture.

OMR attendance management system documentation

The OMR attendance sheet format can be designed according to your needs. Both period-wise attendance sheet as well as monthly attendance sheet for every subject is available. The method of marking the attendance remains the same, i.e. by roll calling. However, the difference is that with the help of the OMR sheets, automation of attendance is possible. The OMR reader software reads the scanned sheets in seconds and provides daily and monthly attendance reports of the students in an Excel sheet.

OMR attendance sheet: Advantages

Although the system of marking the attendance is the same, OMR sheets help to save time. Addmen understands that filling the bubbles completely would take a lot of time and hence the sheets are designed in such a way that only small marks can be detected. For this purpose, the sheets are printed in pink color. The teachers can use a sketch pen or a marker for marking the sheets because even a small dot of this pen makes a larger mark on the sheet. This helps in saving time considerably.

Apart from being time saving, the best part of OMR sheets for attendance is that they are economical. It is much cheaper than installing a biometric system in each class. Moreover, you do not have to pay anything extra for getting the OMR sheets than for the normal attendance register and other stationery normally used for taking attendance. Other than this, as the sheets are read by the software, the chances of making errors is almost nil as compared to manual calculation of the students' attendance.

Several OMR attendance sheet formats are available. Apart from schools and colleges, even corporate companies use these sheets to maintain the attendance log of their employees. It is possible to personalize the sheets as per your requirement.