Automated Attendance

Privacy-first automated attendance tracking for in-person classes

Attendance in seconds

Acadly helps instructors discover students in their proximity at the tap of a button. Its privacy-first technology does not track users' geolocation. It works as a mobile app on the smartphones instructors and students already have!

It's easy for instructors and students

It's instant and saves instruction time

It's reliable and allows manual attendance editing

Available for all courses in the FT-MBA program at Goizueta Business School now.

Used at more than 450 US universities

Natalie Mountjoy, Western Kentucky University

I needed a painless, free way to monitor attendance... and an efficient way for my students to quickly submit in-class work. I could not believe what I found in Acadly... how easy it was to set up my huge roster and get going!

Ron Bolen, University of Alabama Huntsville

The automatic attendance feature on Acadly works as advertised! For my class of 113 students, it saves us over 30 minutes of administrative time per lecture.

Christine Julien, University of Texas Austin

I think using Acadly discussions for students to respond in-class gave them confidence that their ideas or thoughts had merit. Using polls was also really useful to gauge the students opinions on a topic.

Jaap Vos, University of Idaho

Acadly really extends the timeframe of learning... Instead of learning in terms of contact hours, it is now about reading the stuff beforehand, having discussions before class, doing things inside the class and after the class as well.

Watch how the magic happens

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Getting started

Install the app

Students and instructors need the Acadly app installed on their devices to use the in-person automatic attendance feature.

Other Acadly features like manual attendance and sharing / responding to activities work on the website too.

Find your course in Acadly

Your courses in Acadly will be set up for you. Just tap on the name of your course and then tap on your lecture (or "class" on Acadly).

There are two main tabs in every lecture / class. For attendance automation, select the "Attendance" tab.

Let the magic begin!

During the lecture, all you need to do is tap a button. Here's all the information you need:

Watch our demo video
Read our guide for professors (optional)
Share our guide for students with the class (recommended)
Learn how to collaborate with your TAs

Instructors can also schedule attendance to run automatically for the whole term. Read how to schedule auto-attendance for your course.

Export results to Excel!

If you want to keep a backup of the data or grade attendance, the records can be exported to CSV files (Excel-compatible) after the lecture ends. You can export the data for each lecture individually or export a consolidated file with the data for all lectures in one file.

Exporting data from Acadly

Zero-tap attendance tracking with scheduled attendance on Acadly

Scheduled auto-attendance for the whole term

Get rid of all manual work from tracking attendance by scheduling it to run at a specific time during every lecture / class, for the whole semester!

Learn more about our zero-tap attendance solution.

How to get help?

In-class and other help resources

Goizueta Business School and Acadly are teaming up to invest in your success. Here are all the ways to get help:

In-class: Get help from Dr. Amy Bentley, Senior Associate Director of the MBA Program.
In-app: Use the in-app feedback option to reach out to the Acadly team. Mean response time: 6 hours.
Email: Email support+goizueta@acadly.com with any questions. Mean response time: 6 hours.
Help Center: Available here. Please note the chat is not manned for instant support, but the team responds to all messages received, just like emails.

Privacy Statement

Acadly has been reviewed for compliance with data privacy laws such as FERPA and GDPR. These are some of the key aspects:

Acadly does not collect any personally identifiable information except users' names and email addresses
Acadly does not use GPS to capture attendance. Although the Acadly Android app asks for "location permissions", this is done in order to get access to Bluetooth and WiFi data and not GPS data. The apps do not track physical location at any time for any reason.
Data centers used to store data are geographically inside the US
The app does not include any kind of advertising
Personally Identifiable Information is not used for commercial purposes such as targeting ads at users, or selling data to third parties.
The Acadly platform does not earn revenue through any other means except charging university customers / user institutions for the software. In other words, the company does not have a business model such as sharing student data with possible recruiters.
The app already hosts data for Emory students and no security or privacy incidents have been reported to the administration.

We encourage professors to reach out to Dr. Amy Bentley or to the Acadly team in case they have any specific questions. The complete privacy policy is here.

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