Attendance App Reviews

At first I was thrown off by it but now it is the best thing to take role for my college classes. I wish you could see a summary at the end of the spreadsheet view. Again if your a college professor you must get this app. I really look forward to new features.

This app is so complicated I cant figure it out and Im a doctor. Why cant I just input students names and be done with it or why is it so hard to download a roster? My stupid college requires hard copy attendance records; is there an app for that? Ive got enough work to do without worrying about this too.

We develop tools to assist hockey coaches and one of those was an excel based Attendance Tracker. Now we use this app on the ice to track attendance and later import attendance records into our tracking and reporting tool. This is a well thought out app that I have been using for two years now. Regular updates keep making it better and better. I love the student notes, especially the Time Stamp button to capture exact time of someone who is late. It does all that I need and more. Thanks for making attendance taking easy and for providing integration methods to get the data from the iPhone easily into our Attendance Tracker. Coach Plum Colorado Hockey Institute

I love this app. Could not live without it. Since I started using it, 7 other teachers on my faculty now use it. Makes communicating with the parents of my high school students so easy.

I use this app to take attendance at my choir rehearsals. Its easy, fast, and now there are no more papers to keep track of! Love all the ways to backup and send the data out, and the thoughtful nuances (like auto-scrolling in Take). Also appreciate all the useful updates. Plus, youve given me yet another reason to love my iPad all the more!

The app is life changing and has morphed my whole perception about taking attendance (which I hated!). My only need at this point is to be able to have data on my iPhone sync with my iPad. ICloud would be a perfect way to make that happen!

I just wanted to take attendance but Im discovering many other useful features. I can email reports to myself, email absent students, keep class notes for each class right there next to the attendance, and--this was a pleasant surprise!--divide the class into random groups of whatever size I choose. I just exported my roster data from Blackboard and imported as a group into my Contacts (synced via MobileMe) and could then set up the class in one click! Im looking forward to keeping attendance records for the first time in years.

What a great app! After downloading last night, I had a issue figuring something out, so I emailed had got a response within minutes! We went back and forth about an upgrade that would help me as a band director sort my students with in sections alphabetically by last name... the current version would not do this...this morning I get an email telling me he updated the program for the need sorting features and it will be available in a week or so! WHAT GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE!! Thanks David for a incredibly useful app!!!!!

I am a university professor with a full-time course load. Ive tried other attendance apps to keep track of students and learn names, and this is, by far, the strongest. Even more, the latest update, 4.6 (a larger picture option by tapping the photo), makes an already excellent app even better. Also, very prompt support response, including follow-ups. But start with the website which is quite thorough.

This app is so great!!! You can look at photos of students and take attendance at the same time!!! I thought it didnt and I wrote to the creator an he got back to me with in the hour!! He told me to go through the settings and turn the feature on and it worked perfectly. Thankyou thankyou thankyou for this amazing app!!

I should have read the critical reviews first. I was really hoping for an attendance app that would allow me to quickly scan photos and identify one of my 150+ students by photo, then name. No luck. To see the photo, one has to click on the name. My college webrosters include photos first, next to the name. Shouldnt this be a customizable feature? I also wish there was less "click through" to get to the attendance taking feature. In an app devoted entirely to Attendance, with the ability to add brief notes and email students, this process really should be simplified somewhat. FYI: for those stumbling through .csv import, you really do need that every field is separated by a comma, with no spaces. With most .csv downloads (except from Blackboard gradebooks) its best to open the file with a text editor and screen the data. (Tip: use "find/replace" to remove quotation marks, spaces, etc.) IIts a nice app for the most part; the ability to move students around rather than have them strictly alphabetized is nice, though Id love to be able to create groups within a course (for groupwork oriented classes). if the UI is reworked it would be so much better.

I havent used this in class yet but so far its fairly simple if you follow the directions and double check your text editor settings to save in the correct format. I would like to have the ability to include dates in the csv file before you import the roster. As a professor Im not allowed to share student names, so it would be nice to have the option to password protect rosters to be more compliant with privacy policies. Id like to be able to see the last date of attendance as an option in the report section. New financial aid laws require it to be reported in certain circumstances.

I am loving this app! It has been worth way more than the $4.99 already. I love having pics of my students so handy and I love that I can write notes about individual students, a particular class meeting, or just general class notes. It is very versatile and pretty easy to use when you learn the ropes. There is a little bit of a learning curve with it, but once you master it, it is really a pretty powerful app.

I love this app too! It has been amazing. Im so organized. I did take the time to watch the video tutorials online to figure out how to download my class list. Plus I read through instructions. Once I did those 2 things it was easy to figure out. I also had a question about having the students photo show up while taking attendance. I emailed the developer and he got back to me within an hour. He had a quick solution to my problem. Awesome App!

I teach up to 4 courses a semester in two different graduate schools, and Attendance is a superb tool for keeping track of attendance in class sessions. I also use the Note field for each student, each class, to record my assessment of class participation. That takes only a few minutes, and I do it right after class while the memory is fresh. It does take some time to get used to the apps style of input/output/editing, etc. If you work on it, and watch the excellent videos on his website, you will finally be rewarded with a powerful productivity tool. Furthermore, I had it for 3 years now, and I am pleased with the added functionality and improvements which the developer continues to make. Excellent value...worth even more. I wish the app were more intuitive, and some of the file handling involved fewer steps, but it works quite well.

Nice app that makes it easy to take attendance by name, photo, or group. Developer is highly responsive. I made a suggestion, he told me he would consider it, and made the change in the next update. You can tell Dave uses the program and that polishing it for others is a labor of love. Interface to extra capability can take a little getting used to but the included instructions and on-line videos are helpful. Very good value and functionality.

Attendance looked like it had everything I needed to keep attendance, but once I got it I couldnt "get it." Turns out it is difficult to learn the simpliest tasks. Instructions were of little help and the "Attendance Support" at iTunes was of little help too. for a visual learner, written instructions were just so many chicken stratches. After a week of trying and experimenting, Ive got it and it works like a breeze! Thank you (visual instructions would help in the future).

This apps works great. I surely recommend it to others teachers. I have one request for this app. My school district requires that i sort my attendance by gender but this is not an option on the apps. Can this be included to make things smoother.

Update: bumped it up to 5 stars, just because this developer is constantly updating his app. Constantly. This app does exactly what it says and what I need it to do. My only complaint is that sometimes the buttons lack sensitivity. These times are the only times with my iphone, regardless of any app, I find that pressing a button gets no response. Sometimes I have to back out of a page and go back in, or move the button higher or lower in the view so that it registers my touch. Its a weird and annoying problem that Id love for the developers to address.

I bought Attendance for $5 (more than I spend on apps in genera), then as soon as I started reading the FAQ discovered there was an Attendance 2 and Attendance 1 would no longer be supported within a year. So $5 more dollars later I got Attendance 2…and now I discover neither of them do what I need them to do. Then I tried to contact the developer to ask some questions and found he had no contact information anyplace. So $10 down the tubes. The problem with this program as I see it is that it assumes you keep a separate CSV list of students for every single class which will then repeat in its entirety in future classes. There is no master pool of students from which to pick a subset to add to a given session. For instance, as a dance teacher, I have students who attend classes across many different levels. But not all students attend all the same classes. The only option I am given is to import my entire student list (which is over 500 students), or copy a student list from a different class (only some of whom would be taking both classes). What I need to be able to do is add a session, and then be able to search a list of past/current students and add them individually for that session. Student A may attend class 1, 2, and 3. Student B may attend only 1 and 2. I need a searchable list with all my students in it so when I am setting up Class 1, I can pull up my student list, checkmark Student A and B and add them both to the class. Then do the same when setting up Class 2. Then for Class 3 be able to just check next to Student A and add them, since B isnt joining Class 3. I also need to be able to set recurring dates and sessions for classes. Such as when setting up Class 1, set it for "Once a week on Tuesdays from October 2-Novermber 6". As I see it right now, I have to add dates completely individually. So for a six week class I have to add a class date every week. If I have a dozen classes to track, that is a lot to add as I go. Perhaps some of these issues can be overcome or dealt with more cleanly. But without a way to contact the developer and get help with my individual concerns, I am sharing my thoughts here.