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AttendanceData

The Playbook

Twenty-seven ways to put attendance data to work.

Each play is a real situation, the exact sequence in AttendanceData, and the result. Pick your side of campus.

8s

student check-in

1 tap

to answer an icebreaker

$0

cost to students

10 plays shown

01Podium display

Classroom time

Start the lecture in ten seconds

A sign-in sheet takes ten minutes to circulate a large room, and calling roll burns eight to twelve minutes of every session.

02Session record

Classroom time

Retire the clipboard for good

Paper sheets get lost, smeared, or passed to the back row and never returned, and Sunday night is spent typing them into a spreadsheet.

03Term view + export

Grading

Make attendance count in the syllabus

Weighting attendance at ten or fifteen percent means hand-counting thirty sessions for every student at the end of term.

04Term view

Grading

Warn the late-semester slump before finals

Attendance falls off after midterms, and students only discover the grade consequence when it is too late to recover.

05Custom icebreaker

Icebreakers

Read the room before an exam

You cannot tell whether the class is prepared for Thursday's midterm until the scores come back.

06Custom icebreaker

Icebreakers

Collect the muddiest point on the way out

"Any questions?" in a hundred-seat lecture produces silence, and the students who are struggling are the least likely to speak.

07Custom icebreaker

Icebreakers

Check a concept mid-lecture

Clicker systems cost students money and require hardware the department has to buy and maintain.

08Session controls

Check-in verification

Stop friends signing in for friends

On a paper sheet, one student signs for three absent roommates, and a static link gets texted across campus.

09Audit history

Records & appeals

Settle a grade appeal in one minute

A failing student tells the department chair they attended every session and the professor is mistaken.

10Podium display

Classroom time

Run a 250-seat lecture without a TA sweep

Large sections either skip attendance entirely or spend a teaching assistant's whole hour walking the aisles.

Questions in the check-in flow

Icebreakers for a class. Pulse surveys for a campus.

No extra step

The question appears on the check-in screen students are already using.

No hardware

Any phone browser. No clickers to buy, issue, or replace.

No student cost

Students never pay to check in or answer a pulse survey.

Classroom or campus

One instructor's section, or every participating section on a given day.

Always free for instructors

Unlimited classes and sessions. No credit card, no expiry, no student seat limit.

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Plan a campus pilot

Review classroom flow, deployment fit, assumptions, and success measures.

Plan a pilot