Attendance App Reviews

I use this app daily. Its unquestionably the app I get the most satisfaction from with the least effort. Easy to set up, easy to use, generates reports in moments. Easier than keeping attendance records on a spreadsheet, especially with the function that makes the students marked present disappear from the list. Simple and efficient.

Great app, easy to navigate thru and set up. Professional look compared to some others that seem to be designed for preschool. Please consider adding a section for student grades and this app would be complete. Five stars!

I have downloaded well over 200 apps, at least half paid, and have only left 10 reviews. This app is well-deserving of my 11th review! The CSV import feature is wonderful and ability to take attendance "on the move" is a fantastic convenience. As a college prof. with courses exceeding 75 students, this has saved me time and headaches, and allowed for quick communication via text to my students. Bravo Mr. Reed!

Wow! I found that this application alone justified my use and possession of owning an iPod Touch! This app increased my productivity for taking and assessing attendance in all seven (thats right... seven) of my classes this semester. The use of this app helped me do an excellent job without any loss or interruption of logistical methods of content delivery in my courses. I teach at a private university in art and design and taking attendance, sending emails, executing reports, and importing those reports into Apple Numbers (or MS Excel) was totally seamless. I highly recommend this app for any teacher! The only thing that I have to remember is to bring my iPod with me each day. ; )

Update: After a term using Attendance, I remain really pleased with this app. Worth every penny! Not a single problem all term. The update adds Dropbox integration, which will be perfect for me. My only quibble is that there does not seem to be a way to archive old courses into a folder. I can download or email the files, but it would be nice to have archiving by folder. This app is not meant as eye candy. But would we want pretty for such a task, and who has time when taking attendance to dwell on frills? This app is five star for doing what it sets out to do. Dev actively updates, too. OLD: The other reviews thus far accurately represent Attendance. I think its fantastic for a couple of reasons. First, with this app and ice breaker games, I was able to master 60 student names and faces in two classes instead of the usual two weeks. That aspect alone makes it well worth the money to me. Second, although I have always been organized as a teacher, I would take roll on paper and then miss a late student, and sonetimes I have been interrupted at the start of class and forgotten to take roll. I use this app on my ipad right in class and I cannot imagine any easier way. Some points, using ipad and WINDOWS: --My college has online enrollment but the rolls do not export easily to a spreadsheet. I copy and paste these online rolls into excel and then set up my GRADEBOOK using excel. Then, I save the student info from excel to csv. I have to use a text editor like word pad to remove some funky remains from Excel (this is to get the info into the app without typing it all). I then use USB disk for ipad to transfer one .txt file per class. I open the file and copy and paste the roster into Attendance. I have not yet found an easier way to get info right into the app, but that may be because I am using an ipad and Windows products with my schools online enrollment software, which is primitive. --The cut and paste worked PERFECTLY! just as the app directions indicate. --My students photos can be pulled up on a web browser. On the ipad, I saved the photos into the native ipad Photos. It was then a breeze to pull the photos for each student into the app. --I am able to take attendance with student name and photo, along with NOTES. I like to see the students majors, for example, and add it and whatever else for each student. --Fully customizable status (present, absent, late, or whatever else you want) --A wow function: the ability to randomly cycle through students when asking for student questions and comments. Also, the ability to divide the students into groups instantly and randomly, in the size you select. I teach small writing classes that involve lots of group work and discussion. This randomizer and grouping function is really helpful for my pedagogy. --Tip for ipad users: If you use a personal email account as the ipad default, you might want to add new email accounts to the ipad via general settings. Then you can customize from which account the teacher email will be sent. So I can send students email using my teacher email address even though I use a personal email account for the ipad default. This needs to be done outside the app, General Settings > Mail, calendars, etc. Would like to see: ---About 3 or 4 more colors to use when customizing attendance status. --The reports would be more useful to me if I could customize what info to put in. So far, I havent found a way to do that. Am I missing something? Also, when sending emails to students, the default entry of the record could be more user friendly. Any way to customize what the default individual email looks like? The program is the best method Ive found for taking attendance. No bugs or problems in this version that I have encountered. It works smoothly and there is no question that it was an excellent investment. I have not used the options to import from web server due to my particular schools web set up. I also have not needed to transfer between devices, so I cant comment on that function.

Trying to get information from the author web page is a nightmare as well. He refers you to his blog for help, but there is nothing helpful there except a history of the various releases. He posts Flash videos where you can hardly see what you are supposed to, no instructions for basic functions, etc. Users shouldnt need to spend so much time trying to figure out how to use it. A waste of money and time.

I swear on everything that is holy and sacred that this app is not user friendly regarding importing names. Horrible! Perhaps, now that the names are loaded, I will enjoy it...but the last two hours have been hell. The instructions arent written well, importing a .csv file from dropbox is impossible, and emailing/pasting works just well enough for me not to throw this iPad out the window. Please make the language in the instructions more precise; perhaps hire someone else to write them. Also, you should develop a way to make the roster directly importable from Blackboard. Currently, the Blackboard roster URL isnt readable by your program. If I had it to do all over, I would spend the $5 on a coffee and use the energy to do something different. Sorry.

I have wasted a lot of time trying to get this app to work with what is provided on blackboard and on registrar lists, and it is impossible. Unless data is imported exactly the way this app is designed it is worthless and doesnt load at all. It is worse than typing each item in yourself, which Im sure it would ruin at some point, losing that data too. Do not buy this app unless you are looking for something to waste a Sunday afternoon on before you discover that there is no way to make it compatible with any standard export lists. The app store needs to design some sort of return and refund mechanism. The way it is now, anyone can design an app and there doesnt seem to be a way to get a refund when you encounter junk like this one.

The last 3 reviews I feel seem to be personal. I find the information they are saying totally false. The creator of this app writes back instantly. The app is well thought out and has shown the ability to grow and develop over time. iTunes should develop a policy against false and incorrect reviews. These people need to be stopped. Do not let the negative reviews influence your decision. Write the developer. He will respond and will help you.

I was able to import rolls by following the directions inside the app, with no need for the further clarification on the support pages. I love having students pictures with their names, & the ability to text the whole class makes it easy to remind students of special meeting sites or let them know if I have to cancel a class. (Unlike email, text messages actually get their attention.)

This App is a perfect addition to my teaching tool-box. I teach two large sections of an Introduction to Religion class in a university. It makes learning student names a painless process by being able to view student pictures in the App as I take attendance. I can easily email absent students with the App. Backup is possible through Dropbox. It took me a couple of hours to figures out the "ins and outs" of how the App worked and to get my student rosters, pictures, and emails added. It wont take me that long in the future. The App is pretty intuitive. I heartedly recommend it to teachers with an iPhone or iPod touch. Keep up the great work David!

I used to work at a university with all smart classrooms and digital grade books, where this program complemented the technology I had. Now, I work at a university without any technology and this program has become essential to my teaching. Attendance is faster than a paper grade book, easy to export to excel. This is program really lets me focus on teaching and less on administrative stuff. Now other iPhone users in my department rely on Attendance too.

I use this to take attendance in all of my university courses. Its simple and well designed. I also like the fact that students can be added via address book groups which makes it easy to import the information rather than entering it by hand. The export feature makes it easy to import the attendance data to my gradebook on WebCT. This is my second year of using the program and I havent had a problem yet. Just an update -- Im still using Attendance and it remains my favorite app on my iPhone.

I have been using Attendance for about two years now in a variety of university level classes. I have found it to be very easy to use - setting up classes, taking attendance, customizing the app for my specific purposes and exporting reports that can be used in other applications is very intuitive and seamless. I havent seen a more effective alternative.

This app is very useful. It does way more than just take attendance. For instance, it can randomly make groups of 3 for you just from those in attendance today. Or you can email your whole class something. Or want to randomly pick a student? This does that too. The reports that you can send yourself or your students are great. And the author has been adding new features. I highly recommend paying for this app.

Product was useless and directions even more so. Could not load CSV file or a cut and paste from my email. Video was so small you couldn’t see the examples. I hope dave enjoys the fiver.

The developer consistently improves the versatility and functionality of this app. Ive been teaching for 22 years at a university with a mandatory attendance policy and this app makes roll taking less painful. My attendance records have never been more organized. This app has the capabilities to do many things. Just figure out what you need to do with attendance and learn the procedures to accomplish that goal. This app has capabilities I have not even explored, but then again, I dont need to explore them. It does the two or three things I need and it does them very well. Ive got a few other people at our university using this app and they focus on some of the other capabilities. If it does not do what you want, email the developer and it probably will within a short time. This app has made my life much easier.

I have been looking for something like this for a while--even attempted to use apps to create a reusable template for this purpose. I finally bought a cheap app, but, while it takes attendance, it lacks some fundamental features. So I browsed the more expensive apps for comparison. After watching the videos on this app, I bought it. Having played with it for a while, I am very happy. As far as I am concerned, aside from taking attendance by class and by name, an attendance app must: 1. allow me to transfer the data out--as text in an email or in some form for other desktop software to open. Otherwise, what good does it do for me to keep it on the phone only? One can email both a plain text AND a spreadsheet (which can be previewed in app). 2. allow me to display attendance report with all the dates and checks *all on one page.* Looking at the data student by student is useful in some cases, but for the most par I keep records for a whole class on only a couple of pages. The spreadsheet report created by this app (when emailed) does just that. 3. allow me to add unique status in addition to "present", "absent", and "late." I wanted to add "sick," "training" (which is required where I work), and maybe another one or two. Much to my amazement, this app does it. The status choices can be totally customized in this app. Personally, I was not very much concerned with importing data, but this app does allow import of csv files. Having played with the import function, I must say I am glad the app allows the wholesale import of a csv file (and the authors video shows exactly how), as entering more than a handful of names manually (with emails and all) *will* be a chore. One additional unexpected feature: This app allows me to email, directly through the app, any individual student, or students who are absent on a given day, or all the students in a class. For a variety of reasons, Outlook Express, at least the way it is set up at my workplace, does not allow me to create a mailing list. All year long I have been struggling with an easy way of keeping students addresses grouped by class or retrieving students addresses on my phone. This app seems to have solved the problem for me. So far, so good! All I can say is that I hope the apps author keeps it updated (not necessarily for more features, but so that it remains stable).

Im sure this works Great for Teachers but it also works amazingly with a business too. I have a staff of 60 employees to track, notify, manage, and send phone lists for employees trying to call out. Its also great that I am able to send statistics to my District Manager on call outs, no call no shows, sicknesses,..... Please allow your great app to be more business friendly :) Thanks!

I really like being able to take attendance this neatly and quickly. I look forward to a grading option.