Feature: Attendance Reports
Jun 30, 2016
Last month we launched the ability to take attendance at small group sessions. Since then, we have been working on a way to allow small group administrators and leaders to quickly and easily download attendance reports for one or all of their small groups. Today, we're happy to announce this new feature.
Tracking Attendance: A Short Recap
Taking attendance of your small group sessions is an important of part of tracking the performance of your small groups. You need to be able to identify the small groups that are performing well as well as the one that are not performing well so that you can properly allocate your limited resources for future semesters.
Today, I am happy to announce a new feature allowing small group pastors and small groups leaders to track attendance at small group sessions quickly and easily. It takes no more than 1 minutes for a group leader to quickly enter who is present and who is not.
Using Attendance Tracking
When you are viewing a group in the Church Groups HQ dashboard click on the gears and then select "Take Attendance".
This will take you to a screen that will allow you to quickly and easily set the date of the session, which defaults to today's date, check off those in attendance, and add some quick notes about the session.
When you click "Save", the attendance will be saved and you will be returned to the group view. It's pretty simple.
Attendance Reports
We set out to make sure that downloading attendance reports was easy and I think that we achieved that goal.
All Groups Attendance Report
When you are viewing all groups in the Church Groups HQ dashboard click on the gears and then select "Download All Attendance Reports".
This will automatically download an attendance report to your computer or device for all of your active small groups in a CSV file format which can easily be opened in Microsoft Excel or uploaded to Google Docs and looks something like:
Single Group Attendance Reports
When you are viewing a group in the Church Groups HQ dashboard click on the gears and then select "Download Attendance Report".
This will automatically download an attendance report to your computer in a CSV file format which can easily be opened in Microsoft Excel or uploaded to Google Docs and looks something like:
In Closing
I hope that you find this new feature to be useful for you and your small groups. If we can make this feature better or if you have any ideas about other features that you might like to see please don't hesitate to reach out and contact us. We'd love to hear from you. Thanks for using ChurchGroupsHQ!