This document provides an introduction and overview of a proposed student attendance monitoring system with parent portal. It discusses the need for the system due to issues with traditional methods of informing parents about student absenteeism. The proposed system will have two platforms - a window-based system to record attendance and grades, and a web-based parent portal. If a student is absent, an SMS will be sent to parents. The parent portal will allow parents to view their child's attendance and grades. The document outlines the objectives and functionality of both the window and web-based systems. It also discusses the technologies that will be used such as VB.NET, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX.