Recording of student attendance with blockchain technology to avoid fake presence data in teaching learning process

Abstract

University operational activities are a routine part of university operations and supervisory control and monitoring function. The low controlling and monitoring of operational activities can cause irrelevance in the teaching and learning process. A graduate may have a graduation document but has never attended the teaching and learning process. An official institution can issue this graduation document, but it is fake because no teaching-learning activity occurred. It happens because the data is easily being manipulated and changed in the current system. From the problem, this is what drives this research to be carried out. With the characteristics of distributed, secure, and traceable information, Blockchain will solve this problem. Based on a previous study, blockchain technology facilitates university operational activities so that it will solve the current problems. This research uses qualitative research methods. The research process starts with literature studies and forum group discussions conducted on nine universities in Indonesia (public and private universities). This study used the User-Centered Design Technique. This research focuses on the user, so the results possibly are applied. The research results prove that Blockchain technology can record student attendance as part of the graduation process's teaching and learning process. Blockchain's immutable, unchangeable, and distributed characteristics will ensure the student attendance record's validity in the teaching and learning process.