Attendance

Reading attendance reports

Per-session counts and per-student percentages, and what they can and can't tell you.

Last updated August 31, 2026

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The Attendance tab inside a class shows what the mobile app recorded: one row per session, with how many students were present.

Per session

Each row shows the session, its date, and the attendance count against your enrolled total — 18/24.

Read it as a time series rather than row by row. A count sliding from 22 to 14 over six weeks is the thing worth noticing, and it's invisible if you only look at today's number.

Sudden single-session drops usually have ordinary causes: a holiday weekend, exams elsewhere, heavy rain. A steady slide is different, and it's usually about the class.

The tab also shows QR check-ins not tied to any session, if you've scanned outside a session.

Per student

The Students tab carries each student's percentage — 75%, 9/12 sessions — coloured green above 75%, amber 50–75%, red below.

The denominator is sessions you've marked completed. So if you don't mark sessions completed, every percentage here is wrong in the same direction — and students will look worse than they are.

Reading it with payment status

The two columns together tell a story neither tells alone:

Attendance Payment Usually means
Good Paid Fine
Falling Paid Something's changed — a clash, or they're struggling. Worth asking.
Good Overdue Committed but can't pay right now. A payment plan often keeps them.
Poor Overdue Has effectively left. A reminder won't bring them back; a conversation might.

The second row is the one teachers miss. A student still paying but no longer attending is the easiest to keep — they haven't given up yet — and the easiest to lose quietly.

What it can't tell you

Whether a student was actually there. It records that a QR code was scanned. Phones get handed to friends.

Whether they learned anything. Attendance is presence. Quiz results are a better signal, and both together better still.

Anything about sessions you didn't scan. A session where you forgot the app shows zero attendance, which will drag every percentage down. If it happens often, the numbers stop being worth reading.

Using it

Once a month, alongside payment status:

  1. Attendance tab — is the count trending down?
  2. Students tab — who's dropped below 50%?
  3. For each: are they also overdue?
  4. Message the good-attendance-overdue students first. They're the most likely to stay.

If you're on Pro, Analytics does some of this for you with an at-risk list combining attendance and payment.

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