Keerthana S J and Prof. Sandeepa K M
The Smart College Management System (SCMS) to solve a problem I kept noticing in how colleges of my institution's size handle everyday admin work: attendance registers, fee ledgers and notices are all kept separately, often on paper or in scattered spreadsheets, which makes them hard to track and easy to get wrong. My system brings these three tasks onto one platform with three logins — Admin, Faculty and Student — using CodeIgniter 4 (PHP) and MySQL. The part I am most satisfied with is the attendance module: before a faculty member can mark attendance, the system checks their device's GPS coordinates against a stored college location using the Haversine formula, so attendance can only be marked from within campus. I have also implemented fee collection with receipt generation and balance tracking, course/subject setup, and a simple notice board. This paper walks through how I designed and built the system, what worked, and what I would still improve