Student Attendance Tracking Software for University or College

Effectively tracking attendance in Higher Education is not as easy as it sounds. We've developed software with the sole focus of reliably solving this problem for you. From single class through to fully automated University wide attendance solutions.

Attendance Tracking

Multiple attendance collection options.
Manual, automated and hybrid.
Comprehensive and intuitive cloud based attendance tracking software.
Many customizable ways to view data.

Flexible Solutions

Timetabled and non-timetabled solutions.
Stand alone or integrated.
Automated alert and report options.

Early Alerting

Automatically identify priority learners - early.
Monitor across your institute.
Manage and track intervention action.

Why Customers love aPlus+ Attendance

"As somebody who has been at Relay since the dawn of Relay-time, never have I ever heard ‘Oh – I love this solution for attendance!’ We have done attendance 8,562 ways since I’ve been here, and no one has ever spoken positively about it before."

— Mayme Hostetter, President, Relay Graduate School of Education

Attendance Collection Options

Choose the collection method that works for you - we’ve got plenty of options. These can work together in a hybrid solution so that the most effective method is used for each class or department.

Instructor entry

Instructors enter attendance for their class on any web connected device

RFID Scanners

Students scan their RFID contactless card card as they enter (and/or exit) class

Kiosk

Students enter unique identifier on a kiosk as they enter a location and optionally provide more details

ZOOM

Import your Zoom attendees. See the time of arrival and total time spent on the session

Self registration

Students are assigned unique codes at the start of class which they enter into their device in a time window

Online Activity

Monitor Canvas Activity for assignment and quiz submissions

Two Powerful Software Options

Each is tailored to different attendance tracking scenarios, can be configured to integrate seamlessly with your existing systems, and has specially designed functionality to make working with automated scanning devices a breeze.

Attend HE

Track attendance against scheduled classes

Attend Core

Track attendance without timetabling

Comprehensive University and College grade attendance system.
Configurable to almost every aspect, this system works with your existing processes, hierarchies and reporting requirements.
Works best in situations where you have timetable data, however it can work as the system of record as well if needed.
If your goal is early alerting, then use the inbuilt 'Revive' module (optional), or have early alerts generated by Attend HE in your system of choice.

Attendance entry

Enter and adjust attendance records using a clean and simple interface.

Configurable statuses

Configure all the attendance options you need including their colour and how the status affects attendance rate calculations.

Modern web interface

Intuitive and responsive web interface is easy to use on tablets and desktop computers.

Student timetables

View all scheduled classes for each student, and optionally record attendance directly in this screen.

Export data

In addition to reports and other exports, most data tables on screen can be downloaded right away for you to open as a spreadsheet

Flexible reporting

Summarise attendance by time periods, faculty, qualification, course and student. Identify just those courses or students with low (or high) attendance rates.

Absence reporting

Reports to identify just absent or consecutively absent students, or students with specific attendance statuses.

Schedule emails

Any report can be sent to you on a schedule you define.

Early alert dashboard

A single view of all student risk profiles with a focus on those with recent poor attendance or achievement.

Alert action framework

Students can be prioritised, assigned to staff and all comments and actions recorded for transparency, information sharing and auditing purposes

Connects to your data

Monitoring framework extends to connect to your other achievement recording systems

Alert action framework

Complete tracking of intervention activities, enabling you to show the actions you've been taking.

Visibility

Enable staff to see the information that's important to retaining students

Timeline

See how events have unfolded over time with most recent at the top

Analytics

Discover more about your students, courses, qualifications and faculties with optional integrated analytics dashboards

Integration Options

All of our solutions can be integrated with your existing Student Information or Learning Management Systems, sometimes an integration with both is required.

Our powerful integration frameworks make it simple to load data from and export data to your systems, enabling you to leverage what you have. Attend HE and Core both provide a variety of outputs to augment this or can provide for all your attendance reporting requirements.

End-to-end student attendance tracking and early alert

Improve student retention through early alerting

Discover students who need support.
Track support efforts and outcomes.
Connect stakeholders.

Maintain evidence of the actions that you're taking to retain students.
Enable collaboration so that staff become a part of the student retention process.

aPlus+ Attendance for Canvas

Are the limitations of Canvas Rollcall holding you back? Canvas LMS users can add aPlus+ Attendance to their Canvas course modules to benefit from an attendance platform which was created to support both simple and complex attendance tracking scenarios and everything inbetween.

Customize attendance statuses
Comments, allocations, time in/out, points
Options to automate attendance in Canvas

Separate timetables for lecture, tutorial, etc
Course and system level reporting
Easy and simple integration with LTI

More about tracking attendance in Canvas with aPlus+

Seating Plans

Assign your students to defined seats using a simple drag and drop interface. Get to know your students faster, setup defined seats for exams, and utilize the proximity information for the contact tracing report. Fully integrated with the student view of aPlus+ Attendance allowing students to see their assigned seat in advance.

Fixed and adjustable, or session specific
Simple drag and drop seat assignment with flexible room layouts
Notify students of their assigned seat
Fully integrated with contact tracing
Advanced options such as student self submission of seats

Higher Education

Complete Attendance Tracking for University and College

Attendance Collection Options

Two Powerful Software Options

Attendance entry

Configurable statuses

Modern web interface

Student timetables

Export data

Flexible reporting

Absence reporting

Schedule emails

Early alert dashboard

Alert action framework

Connects to your data

Alert action framework

Visibility

Timeline

Analytics

Modern web interface

Dashboards

Drill down

Detailed insights

Monitor scanners

Customize

Integration Options

End-to-end student attendance tracking and early alert

Improve student retention through early alerting

aPlus+ Attendance for Canvas

Seating Plans

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