Attendance2 App Reviews

I am a chief medical resident and am tasked with taking attendance of other doctors at conferences. I refuse to sit there and check off boxes. I found this app and it is the perfect replacement. I imported the residents info into the app from my contacts list, created badges with QR tags using the apps QR creating feature. I now watch as residents scan in for attendance. It feels so high tech, looks complex (but isnt really) and everyone participates. Im very happy with the app and recommend it for anyone who is willing to invest a little time into learning the app. I must say even without scanning the qr badges its quite a good program. The author is very helpful and constantly tweaks the app. Strong recommendation!

This app is great and easy to use. Please keep support for iOS5!

I have been using Attendance for years and have told a lot of colleagues about it. It made my record keeping much easier, and the photo option helped me learn my students names very quickly each semester. When I realized the new iOS would not support my old version I bought Attendance2, and although the interface is a little different, I already appreciate the new features. Now I can record how much a student has participated in a particular class, I can easily see the "red students" who have been missing classes, and I can indicate if a student left early. As I was migrating the information from the first weeks of class into this new app, I was having trouble with the reports. I emailed Dave and, this is no lie, he got back to me within five minutes with the solution -- since the semester had already started, I needed to change the date range the reports were covering. Since he is a professor teaching a full load, I would not expect that amazing response time every day, but it happened today. This app will make your life easier, taking attendance will be unobtrusive, and your students will think you are on the cutting edge of technology.

When I first wrote a review of this app, it was missing a key feature being able to add students from the contacts. However since that time, the developer added this feature and it is really made this attendance app I think the best one. I downloaded a couple of different apps and this one is robust and had got every different setting that you possibly need to be able to l take attendance of any group you ever wanted to, a classroom of students, a sports team, a church whatever youre doing and the developer, if you ever have a question, you can contact him, he has already contacted me back already three times. If he can help, he will. I dont know this guy personally, but he has been a help. Thanks for a great app.

The creator of this app does not understand simplicity and good design.

I wish the look and functionality were like the Red Hawk Attendance app. This one is a bit confusing and a tad tedious. Love the customization and calculations. Id like it even more so if you could customize the exported spreadsheet a bit. My specific want would be to have just the names and the total scores showing. After months worth of classes, thats a lot of data to sort on the horizontal axis of my google doc. Overall, great app. *update* - After creating a spreadsheet that filtered everything correctly, this app works perfect. The UI improvement of the header color was a great and needed touch. Once you get to know the app, its good. Still wish I couldve just customized the spreadsheet output, rather than use a series of formulas and several sheets.

As a visual person, teaching studio courses where attendance is key, I dont know what Id do without this app. I love the photos, the ability to instantly communicate and, of course the reports. After using Attendance 1 for two years, Im thrilled to have the refinements and ease of use of Attendance 2. Its worth every penny.

I have been using this for a while now it is very easy to use and customize. I have found it to be very reliable with no problems. Great app

The author has provided us access to a truly useful and powerful app. I typically use it on my iPad because I have all my class notes and the text book on that device. I am using the Status1 and Status2 features fully, and they are very useful. There is a note-taking capability for keeping track of what happened in class as well as individual and dated notes for each student. There is a small learning curve for the app which is time well-invested. A previous reviewer was carping about the look. I think the look is just fine. Its a utilitarian and stable app created for us by a computer sciences professor who makes but small change selling it. All I care about is that it WORKS. And it works very well.

The App helps me keep track of attendance for my college courses. It is not always intuitive to figure out or understand the Help info, but the Developer is responsive and helpful in supporting the App. As a result, I see now that the App does everything I need it to do for the way I want to track attendance.

You can literally do more with notepad, this app is worthless what a waste of 5.00 should have given it to a homeless person instead

I am safety leader in my building. I am using the Attendance2 to improve evacuation accounting for 300+ people. This is required under US OHSA 29 CFR 1910.38 Emergency Action Plans sub-clause c(4)... An emergency action plan must include at a minimum: c(4) Procedures to account for all employees after evacuation; My goal is to get names of the missing in the hands of leadership for notifications in minutes. To-date companies have written procedures but I think it take a long time, I am one of two volunteer safety leaders for my building. We are planning on using the Attendance2 to improve evacuation accounting for 300+ people. This is required under US OHSA 29 CFR 1910.38 Emergency Action Plans sub-clause c(4)... An emergency action plan must include at a minimum: c(4) Procedures to account for all employees after evacuation; Our goal is to get names of the missing in the hands of our Crisis team(s) for notifications, etc. To-date companies have written procedures but I think it take hours, with manual process, for them to figure out whos impacted in a crisis. This app that got my attention to meet this need.

I use this app every day in my HS classes. Though it takes a little set up and exploration, you will find it has just about everything you could ask for in an attendance app. I especially love attendance2 for keeping track of my students on out of town trips. Give it a shot - you wont be disappointed.

This is a terrific app. I teach at a community college and my students love this way of taking attendance. I am able to export my students info from D2L to dropbox and right into the app. I can generate qr codes and then each student gets one. Most of them store them on their smartphones. Then they just beep in every day. Awesome.

I think Attendance2 runs the smoothest out of any available attendance app on the AppStore. I used the first version for 3 years and have been using this one for 1 month and enjoy it.

Example of an app that did not improve with the new version. The original was easy to use. This thing is almost unusable. I cant even give it one star. Sorry. I am going to the original.

As a teacher I use this app every day. It cuts hours of work into minutes, it gives parents/students valuable data about how they are performing, allows you to email or text every student/parent an individual report of their progress in seconds, and the developer will respond quickly every time you email him. Cant get better than this.

This app has made things much easier for me when tracking all my classes. The software is flexible enough for me make any adjustments needed for my particular system keeping track. I have also received prompt and concise responses from Mr. Reed that have been extremely helpful.

4.2 update: The bar graph is amazing. At a glance I can see not only that a student was late once, but a readout of how bad attendance has been. I think even Edward Tufte would approve. This is better at what it does than a Numbers spreadsheet or any other dedicated attendance app: 1. It is astoundingly easy to take roll. 2. Its also easy to email students individually, and to single out students who have missed class. 3. I count off a certain number of points for tardiness or absence, and the app allows me to set those values and find easy totals. 4. I can randomly select students and assign them to groups quickly. Essentially, it does what it says on the tin, and it does it far better than the next best option--thats worth at least four stars, right? However, I have a few caveats: 1. Some options seem mutually exclusive, like the "Link with Dropbox" and "Unlink with Dropbox." Dont you need to display only one of those? Even so, the app is complex because it has to be complex--as a cluttered desk is said to be the hallmark of an active mind, I suppose an app cluttered with features is by definition "feature-rich." Certainly it is much closer to doing anything youd want it to than another app. 2. The attendance status is not aligned with the names. Its not a biggie, just odd. 3. Displays and reports of student attendance data are a little awkward and zoomed out, but theres a button right there, and pinch-to-zoom works. 4. No perfect sync between iPhone and iPad. Hopefully iOS 8’s iCloud improvements will make sync better. Even so, odds are that youre going to use this more on one device than another. Stick with that.

Is there anyway you can add an option to see the last date of attendance for a student? Other than that I think this is a really good app. I used it to take attendance this semester and three of my classes.I teach at a community college.