A New Way to Take Attendance?

[missrlynnf]

I'm the ward librarian/technology specialist and my husband is the Sunday School secretary. When it comes to taking attendance, let's just say it's less than desirable in its current state. Our attendance rolls are 13 pages long - I have taken these down to 4 pages based on a combined effort to identify who is actually still in our ward boundaries and other criteria. This has helped significantly, but paper attendance logs are a tad annoying to pass around to all the different classes and we recently (somehow) lost on of our roles for primary. So, we've been trying to just use LDS Tools to take attendance, at least for primary, but it's clunky and time consuming. Much like the paper rolls, we still have to go through all 13 pages essentially, or we have to search every member up to mark their attendance.

All of this background is to simply wonder: is there a better, more streamlined and efficient way to take attendance? And if not, can we figure out something new? I've had a few thoughts on it but I'm not tech savvy enough to know if that's even a feasible concept.
But, if anyone has a better method for taking attendance that they'd like to share, we are all ears.

[jonesrk]

All of this background is to simply wonder: is there a better, more streamlined and efficient way to take attendance? And if not, can we figure out something new? I've had a few thoughts on it but I'm not tech savvy enough to know if that's even a feasible concept.

What are your thoughts, even if you are not tech savvy the forum members may be able to help use those ideas to find a way to do it.

How many people do you have that regularly attend gospel doctrine (I'm assuming that's the problem one)? One thought I had is to split the gospel doctrine class and put those who attend regularly in one class so that you have a much smaller roll to use.