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AttendanceCurrent Version: 3.5

Attendance is a universal iPhone/iPad app (runs on iOS 3.1.x, 3.2, and 4.0) that allows you to take and keep attendance records. Its main intended use is for teachers to keep track of records for their classes, but it can also be used for meetings and group gatherings. The attendance statuses are completely customizable. You can import names by pasting in a CSV file or placing the CSV file on a web server, or from Address Book groups you create on your computer and sync with your device, or you can enter the names by hand on your device.

For more information, see my website:
http://www.dave256apps.com/attendance/

See screenshots and videos showing how to use Attendance and import names at http://gallery.me.com/dave256

If you have any issues please email me (see the instructions tab in the app for email address).

Take a photo via your device's camera or select a photo from you photo library (a Settings preference controls which is used) and view the photos next to the names as you take attendance to help you learn the names (Settings preference controls if the photos are displayed).

Use Attendance to keep separate attendance records for each day for each class/group. The statuses default to Absent, Present, Late, and Excused, but can be customized (see the videos).

You can view records, email an entire group, email the students that were missing on a given day, send the records to individual students, email the full records in a CSV spreadsheet format, and many more features. Each student, course, and date you take attendance has a note field for storing additional information.

Supports TextExpander (if you have it on your device) touch snippet expansion for use in the note fields and a view for creating the body of an email message. A preference controls if a separate screen with TextExpander support is used to enter the email message.

The 3.0 version has a Tier 2 price in-app purchase for transferring your data between multiple iPhone OS devices via WiFi so if you have an iPhone and an iPad you can copy all your data from one device to the other to keep updated records on both devices. See the videos for more info on this.

Thanks to Gus Mueller of Flying Meat software for the fmdb library used in Attendance. Also thanks to Jens Alfke for the MYNetwork library.
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Attendance Review

Attendance tracker a must-have for any teacher with an iPhone or iPod touch

Ever since I moved to an electronic gradebook, keeping track of attendance has been a nagging problem. Usually I circulate a sign-in sheet—but sometimes I forget, or let them accumulate before updating my spreadsheet. I’ve even misplaced one or two.


Attendance
David M. Reed Software’s Attendance is designed—by a professor—for people like me, or even more organized people who teach or run meetings. For $3, the app features an intuitive interface for taking attendance, plus a “random student generator” (the better to call on students without picking on anyone) and two ways to report its data.

You can add students manually or by importing them as a group from Address Book. (If the latter, the app grabs students’ photos, which makes it easy to learn their names.) Access student records by tapping on their name or by e-mailing yourself a comma-separated report. The app accommodates multiple classes or sections.

Attendance lives up to its name, and is easy to use. Any teacher with an iPhone or iPod touch should give it a try.

Attendance is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.]

[A professor in New Britain, Conn., Jason B. Jones also writes on books, higher education, and technology. His Web site is The Salt-Box.]

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Organize Your Attendance Tracking

I discovered this application by reading about it recently. My hopes got quite high, as I thought about keeping attendance in real-time and not letting my sign-in sheets stack up quite so tall on my desk. This application has a slow learning curve and in no time, you’ll have your classes set up and can take roll with ease. I still use a sign-in sheet for the students, but immediately after the class can mark the entire roster as present and then one-by-one change the status of those students who were absent/late. COST: $3-4. No brainer in terms of time saved.This app gets five stars once an improved means for importing rosters becomes available. My confidence is in this developer to continue to innovate how we professors take attendance.


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