Ways to take attendance at chapter?

[roses1978]

Chapter size 180. Arrange tables near room entrance & place poster board on the table. Color coordinated for each year in school. Draw a grid with each member's name on one block. When they enter the room they place their phone on their square. Easy & quick way to take attendance. It also eliminates the distraction from phones making the meetings quicker & more efficient!

[agzg]

Originally Posted by roses1978

Chapter size 180. Arrange tables near room entrance & place poster board on the table. Color coordinated for each year in school. Draw a grid with each member's name on one block. When they enter the room they place their phone on their square. Easy & quick way to take attendance. It also eliminates the distraction from phones making the meetings quicker & more efficient!

This strikes me as completely genius and I wish I had done it during the last chapter visit I did.

[clemsongirl]

We have all the sisters line up in relatively alphabetical order as the EVP reads off names one at a time. You say "here" if you're here then go into the chapter room. Works for a chapter of about 230, but we don't usually have everyone in attendance at chapter.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

There are attendance apps out there that people are always trying to sell me (I teach a large lecture section). I don't know all the details, but it's something to do with students checking in on their smartphones/laptops.

[ElieM]

I was going to suggest something with checking in with phones or QR scanners or something

[bevinpiphi]

If you are a Pi Beta Phi (which I guess I assume from your username being PBP), you have to take roll at chapter...mind you, ours topped out at about 90, and it was still a ridiculously long roll. I shortened it by just using last names, but I still had to go through them all. Your regional team might have some suggestions specific to your chapter...I suggest reaching out to your AAC counterpart for any ideas, then to the region team through them.

[candygirl200413]

at my school they just go through saying Ms. ___ and you say here or not, but then again my chapter is about 130-140 girls

[adpiucf]

Chapter of 200 would call out last names in alpha order. It worked fine. If there were girls with the same last name, they would be called out by last name, first name. It was fine. Sometimes, to make it fun, instead of saying here, we would have to name our favorite city, favorite place for a date, favorite fraternity, etc. Always a good laugh.

[DubaiSis]

Roll call may be tedious, but it is a good way to get to know the members' names. I can appreciate that it's a nuisance, but there are benefits to the old fashion way.

[ggforever]

Our chapter uses clickers assigned to each woman to take roll. They also use them for voting - much easier and faster than counting hands/paper ballots. These are the I-Clickers that the women use in many of their classes. They are all familiar with the way they work. There was an investment by the chapter for the technology but it works well and is easy to install.

[LAblondeGPhi]

Originally Posted by ggforever

Our chapter uses clickers assigned to each woman to take roll. They also use them for voting - much easier and faster than counting hands/paper ballots. These are the I-Clickers that the women use in many of their classes. They are all familiar with the way they work. There was an investment by the chapter for the technology but it works well and is easy to install.

I believe i-clicker has an app now, although that kind of invites phone distractions during chapter.

We use an app called n-class at school, although it's a startup so the software is a little buggy.

[maconmagnolia]

We have a chapter with about 300 girls in it. We have the chapter guard wait at the door and we line up alphabetically. The guard has a list of every girl in the chapter (minus those excused for the semester due to an evening class, etc.) and she checks your name off as you walk in. Usually only takes about 15 minutes to get everyone inside.

[HQWest]

One of the other chapters has a velcro board
Each girl has a velcro strip with her name on it. As they come in, each girl pulls her strip off and puts it in a basket.
The secretary knows the names that did not get pulled are absent
She might call just those names to see if some one snuck in late

Another group did the same thing but with their magnetic name tags
As you came in you grabbed you name tag and put it on
This would cost more - but be really easy if you needed name tags for recruitment anyways and easier to make sure no one pulled someone elses tag.

[Splash]

Not my chapter:

When the girls walked into the chapter room in the house, there were two guards. One did the secret handshake with the girl and was told the password. The other had an iPad and had some attendance app that she just checked off each girl and when everyone was inside, it said who was missing.

[ZTA zetahunny]

Divide your chapter into "Founders Groups" or similar Family Groups and have one person in each group count the 15 or 20 girls in her group.