(NU/1112) Student Attendance Monitoring System Hardware.

Descriptions

The Student Attendance Monitoring System (SAMS) project was initiated in order to enable Newcastle University to undertake effective and efficient monitoring of student engagement and to enable timely provision of attendance data in the event of a Home Office (UK Visa and Immigration) audit.Newcastle University invites tenders for the supply of a commercially developed system to facilitate the process of recording students' attendance.The scope of this tender is:— Supply and installation of approximately 400 smartcard scanners. The University will provide the network point and electric power in the lecture rooms as required;— Supply and commissioning of 50 mobile scanners to register attendance and necessary software to transfer data from the scanners to the software.Solution.— Supply and installation of a software solution which will store all scan data (including date/time, location/scanner ID, smartcard number) from fixed scanners in (or close to) real time, with associated data interface to allow integration with the existing SAMS systems.Full details are available in the ITT and Appendix documents on the University's Due North Pro Contract Portal.