Chinese university uses AI to check class attendance rates and find the reasons behind absenteeism

In China, the days of asking your mates to mark you as present in the class attendance sheet are over.

For harassed teachers and university staff struggling to keep tabs on which students have attended class, a new artificial intelligence-enabled system in China may be just what they have been looking for.

A Chinese university in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, has rolled out a class attendance system that enables students to sign in with verification codes via their mobile phones and issue auto-reminders to those who fail to show up on time, along with a warning about the risks of skipping class.