Recording Group Attendance
To record attendance for our group, we will need to go to the Groups module and click on the Group we are taking attendance for.
Attendance is displayed on the right-hand side. On the left, under Record Attendance, we will see any group meetings that have not had attendance taken. If the Group didn’t meet on that date, we can click the red X and the meeting will be removed from the Group Calendar. Otherwise, we can click the green tick to take attendance for the meeting.
Alternatively, we can click Attendance at the top of the page, which will automatically select the date of the most recent group event. We can change this by clicking the appropriate date in the Calendar on the left. Dates in green have already had attendance taken for them, dates in red have not.
Once we’ve selected our date, we’ll see a list of group members and 3 options, Attended, Not Attended and Ignore. Use the radio buttons to select whether each member attended, did not attend or can be ignored.
We can use the Notes field to add more information; for example, why a member did not attend.
Once we have finished, we’ll need to click the green Save button at the top of the list.
Recording Further Information
Total Attendance is shown at the top right of the page and is automatically calculated based on the radio buttons selected when taking attendance. If there were any guests, we can enter a number directly in the box labelled Guests.
If we have enabled them in Settings, we will be able to record Baptisms, Salvations and whether Communion was taken, at the top right of the page.
Notes
Below this is Notes, which can be used to quickly and easily send feedback to anyone who is an overseer of our Group. Once we have added our notes, click the blue Send Notes to Group Network Overseers button.
Journey Items
If we have enabled it in the Journey settings, we will also be able to record the date that Journey Items have been completed, in the Group Attendance. We simply need to click the Journey dropdown and enter the relevant date next to the Journey Item we wish to update.
Once we have finished, we can click on My Group and we will see that the statistics on the right-hand side have been updated.