Acadly Here vs Avance

Acadly Here is a mesh-network technology powered attendance automation app that helps you discover people in your proximity at the tap of a button, without using GPS on your or your attendees’ devices. Neither administrators nor attendees need any hardware except their smartphones for the attendance process. To capture attendance, administrators can simply tap a button on their Acadly Here app and initiate the attendance process. Acadly Here is ideal for use cases such as: • Classrooms: Teachers can use Acadly Here to keep attendance records in lectures • Employee attendance tracking: At office events such as meetings and town halls • Nursing and medical residencies: Keeping attendance records is mandatory in residency • Field trips: Acadly works without WiFi too, and is ideal for outdoor uses such as field trips • Seminars and conferences: Acadly Here is ideal to gauge attendees’ attendance in different tracks of a conference • Church activities: Community events at churches can utilize attendance for planning and record-keeping • Fraternities and sororities: To track members’ interest in events and over a period of time How it works • To capture attendance, administrators and attendees need the Acadly Here app installed on their devices, with the requisite permissions enabled • Administrators can create “groups” of attendees and schedule meeting “sessions”. • The attendance process runs for about 150 seconds and ends automatically. Admins can manually end it sooner too • The count of attendees updates in real time on the administrator’s device • Once the attendance process ends, attendees receive a confirmation regarding their attendance status • In case an attendee is not marked as Present by the automatic process, administrators can edit their status manually as well • All attendance records can be exported to a CSV file by administrators any time Features • Cutting-edge mesh-network technology: Acadly Here works based on a Bluetooth and WiFi based mesh network technology (WiFi connectivity is not compulsory) • Privacy-first: Acadly Here does not use GPS to record attendance. It does not access or record users’ geolocation for any purpose • Manual mode: Administrators can edit attendance manually for attendees who may not have a device or for whom the automatic process fails for reasons such as poor internet connectivity • Co-administrators: Every group can have multiple admins who can collaborate to capture and edit attendance records for the group • Exportable data: All attendance records can be exported to CSV files, both on a per-session as well as consolidated basis • Attendance statistics on the app: Attendees as well as admins can view attendance statistics on the Acadly Here app, both on a per-session as well as consolidated basis About Acadly Acadly Here is a product by Acadly, an audience response system that helps teachers and presenters engage attendees/ students in live events or classes. In addition to automatic attendance, Acadly includes features such as polls, quizzes, word clouds, and Q&A. It also includes Zoom integration and can be used for remote events/ classes. Acadly is used at more than 350 US universities and is among the world’s most widely used lecture engagement solutions for higher education. Acadly Here is a standalone attendance product that uses Acadly’s mesh network technology and makes capturing attendance seamless, simple, and fast. Privacy Policy: https://www.acadly.com/here/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.acadly.com/here/terms Purchase Terms: https://www.acadly.com/here/terms/purchases

Most church software products are complicated & expensive and never find their way into the hands of church members. Avance is the mobile app that church members love to use, helping them stay connected, get involved, and grow. Download the app and register your church to get one month free. You can cancel any time. Avance is free for everyone to link to their church. Email us at sales@avance.network to book a free demo. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/