What an attendance record proves, to whom, and what it takes to make it hold: essays for training centres and schools, wherever they are.
Signing for an absent friend is old, cheap and hard to see. Biometrics are the answer data protection regulators have rejected as disproportionate. The measures that work are duller: codes that expire, a tag in the room, a trainer who counts, and two numbers compared.
ComplianceeIDAS defines three levels of electronic signature, and protects the lowest one in a single sentence. For attendance records, what persuades a funder or a judge is not the level of the signature but the file of evidence around it.
ComplianceA Swedish school had parental consent and an opt-out, and was still fined for taking attendance by facial recognition. What a training centre may record at sign-in follows from one sentence: the purpose. Everything else is a column too many.
PracticeA learner without a smartphone is not a compliance problem: a signature on a screen is a means, not the requirement. It is an organisational problem, and it is solved elsewhere.
ComplianceA trainer's signature does not prove the trainer was there. What links them to a session lies elsewhere in the file, and without it the whole course is in doubt.
ComplianceA video-conferencing tool records a connection, not attendance. The difference between the two is made on the day of the session, or it is never made at all.
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