Design and Implementation of a Tuition Centre Timetable and Location-Based Attendance Management System

Tuition centres often manage class schedules, attendance records and announcements through paper-based processes or messaging applications, which can lead to fragmented information, scheduling conflicts and difficulty verifying students’ presence. This study aimed to design and implement a centralised Tuition Centre Timetable and Location-Based Attendance Management System that brings these operational functions into a single platform. The project followed an Agile development approach comprising requirements identification, planning and design, iterative development and prototype deployment. Requirements were informed by the developer’s first-hand experience as a part-time tutor and were translated into functional and non-functional specifications. The resulting prototype consists of a React and TypeScript web application for administrators, React Native mobile applications for students and tutors, an Express.js backend and Supabase services for authentication and PostgreSQL data management. The implementation provides user, subject, class, enrolment and timetable management, automated weekly session generation, conflict checking, attendance reporting and push notifications. It also incorporates geofencing to permit student check-in only when the reported device location falls within a predefined tuition centre boundary. The implementation demonstrates that these components can be integrated into a unified web and mobile architecture and made available through role-specific interfaces. However, the prototype has not undergone formal usability, performance or operational testing, so its effectiveness in reducing workload and improving attendance accuracy cannot yet be established. Overall, the project provides a functional foundation for digitizing tuition centre administration. Future work should evaluate the prototype with tuition centre stakeholders, assess location accuracy under different conditions and examine usability, security and system performance before operational deployment.

Attendance Management, Geofencing, Mobile Application, Timetable Scheduling, Tuition Centre

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