Attendance Clock

The attendance clock was adopted in 2015 when Scott Karlins introduced the device to the team. It is a fingerprint scanner that takes a member's fingerprint and logs in their hours for certain events or general team meetings. This is used to compile hours gathered by members over the year to see if they are eligible to earn a robotics varsity letter.

How it Works

The team has a laptop dedicated for this fingerprint scanner's operations.

General Set-up of Fingerprint Scanner

• Insert flash drive found in fingerprint scanner package into the windows laptop you wish to connect the device
• Connect the device to the windows laptop using the USB cord
• Once the flash drive and device are both connect, open up the folder of the flash drive and open the File Folder that is named RAMS. Then open the application that is named RAS.
• Contact either the Vice-President of Communications or the Secretary for the team password
• What you see next should be the Main Page where basic functions dealing with the device can be performed. These include adding new members, uploading new members onto the device, grab fingerprints and clock-in/clock-outs from the device, and compile an Hours spreadsheet

Adding new fingerprints

• Creating a new roster or creating new members
  • Before you started creating new members, go back and see if you have some members who have either graduated or are no longer a member of the team. If so, it will be more efficient to edit those members and change their names to the name of the new member you wish to add
  • Remember that once you do this, you must obtain new fingerprint data ASAP
  • When you actually create a new member, make sure you all all necessary fields filled out. A non-manager’s password should be the same as their two-digit user ID. Make sure you go to the “extend info” tab and check to see that the Lock 1 and Lock 2 boxes are unchecked. In this tab, you will need to also enter in their tag ID (firstname.lastinitial)
  • Make sure to include them in the Robotics --> Students group in Default Attendance
• Adding new fingerprints
  • Once you have added new people in or edited a pre-existing profile, you must collect fingerprint data before hours can be collected and recorded
  • To do so, you must be at the Main Page of the program.
  • Open Device Management --> get all log
  • Navigate to the person’s ID profile on the physical device by clicking Menu. It should prompt you to a Manager? Screen. There, you enter in your User ID (if you are made a manager) and your password should either be 1261 or your User ID
  • Click users --> enroll --> enter in the User ID of the member you wish to add fingerprints for
  • Ask the member to swipe their pointer finger three times for optimal accuracy.
  • Once finished, navigate back to the device management page on your laptop and click upload all enroll. After this finishes, the fingerprint data should be valid on the device.