EDUBase's face attendance app runs on an ordinary Android tablet at the gate. It recognises enrolled students and staff on the device, checks for a live face and marks attendance through the same path as the register.
What is a face recognition attendance app in a school?
A face recognition attendance app uses a device camera to identify a person as they arrive and records them as present without a register, card or fingerprint. In a school it normally sits at the main gate or a campus entrance, where students and staff pass one after another.
The useful question for a school is not only whether the face is recognised. It is also whether the result reaches the same attendance records, parent messages and reports that the office already uses. If it lands in a separate system, someone has to reconcile two sets of data every day.
How does EDUBase face attendance work?
The EDUBase face attendance app runs on an ordinary Android tablet. It recognises enrolled students and staff on the device itself, checks for a live face, and marks attendance through the same path as the class register.
Because it uses that same path, parent alerts and attendance reports work unchanged. Gates are named and monitored from the web portal, so the office does not need to look at the tablet to know what is happening.
- On-device recognition: matching happens on the tablet, so a slow internet connection does not hold up the queue at the gate.
- Liveness check: a photo held up to the camera is not accepted.
- Face Attendance Gates screen: name each gate, see its last check-in and last punch, pause a gate, and see which gate marked a person.
- Same alerts as the register: parents get the same absentee or arrival messages as with any other attendance method.
- Device tokens: every tablet has its own credential, so a lost tablet is cut off without changing anyone's password.
Does it run on a phone, or only on a tablet?
The face attendance app is built for an ordinary Android tablet placed at the gate. A phone is not the intended gate device.
Phones still have a role in attendance. Staff can mark attendance from the Teacher App inside the campus map radius, and the free QR Attendance App on an Android phone scans student and employee QR cards. If your question is about using the phones you already own, these two options may suit you better than face recognition.
What happens to the attendance after a face is recognised?
The mark is stored with the other attendance records, so the school does not keep a separate list for the gate. Student attendance can then be viewed in individual and combined reports, and staff marks feed Employee Attendance.
Absentee SMS or WhatsApp messages and Parents App notifications follow the school's usual settings. For staff, late arrival, short leave and absence feed the salary calculation, and the month can be locked once salaries are done.
- Students: the register, reports and absentee alerts show the gate marks like any other.
- Staff: the marks flow into Employee Attendance and then into payroll calculations.
- Owner and principal: attendance figures appear on the dashboard and in the Owner App.
How should a school choose between face, QR and biometric attendance?
No single method suits every campus. The right choice depends on the gate layout, how many people arrive at once, the devices you can maintain and how comfortable families are with each method.
Many schools use more than one method. Because QR, biometric and face attendance all feed the same attendance tables, you can use different methods at different gates or for students and staff.
What should you check before rolling it out?
Plan the pilot before buying hardware. Start with one gate and one group, such as staff, and confirm the results in the reports before extending it to students.
- Choose a tablet position with steady lighting and a power point.
- Agree how students and staff will be enrolled and who is responsible for it.
- Decide who can pause a gate or view the Face Attendance Gates screen.
- Tell parents what is being recorded and why, and keep a manual register route for exceptions.
- Keep QR cards or the class register as a fallback for visitors, new joiners and unrecognised faces.
Attendance methods that feed the same EDUBase attendance records
| Method | Device used | How the mark is made | Best suited to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face attendance gate | Ordinary Android tablet at the gate | Face recognised on the device, with a liveness check | Busy gates where no card or fingerprint contact is wanted |
| QR attendance | Android phone running the free QR Attendance App | Student or employee QR card is scanned | Schools that already print QR ID cards |
| Biometric terminal | Standard fingerprint or face terminal | Device punches are sent into EDUBase | Staff entrances and campuses with existing terminals |
| Geo-location attendance | Staff phone with the Teacher App | Marked only inside the campus map radius | Staff who move between buildings or campuses |
| Class register | Web portal or Teacher App | Teacher marks Present, Absent, Late or Short Leave | Classes where gate devices are not used |
Related modules
- Face Attendance Gates — A tablet at the gate recognises the face and marks the child or staff member in.
- QR, Biometric & Geo Attendance — Automatic in/out marking from QR cards, biometric machines and phone location.
- Student Attendance — Mark attendance from the class register, the Teacher App, a QR scan or a gate device, and tell parents instantly.
- Employee Attendance — Daily or monthly staff attendance from the register, the app, QR or a device, locked once payroll runs.
- SMS, WhatsApp & Notifications — Reach parents by SMS, WhatsApp, branded SMS or app notification, from every screen that matters.
- Cloud Hosting, Backups & Data Isolation — Your school's data in its own database, on managed cloud servers, backed up and monitored.