Many of you may not realize that this reports exists. It is the Check-In Control Report and is run from the Organization Search/Manage page for a specified Schedule and optional Program and Division. You select the report from the Blue Toolbar,  select a date and run the report. But now you have a checkbox option for an Excel Export , in lieu of the normal PDF version.

If you are like me, you probably always prefer Excel for this type of report. Why didn't we do that originally? It's a long story, so I won't bore you. Short version: this report was not something any of us thought we needed, but very quickly threw together as a sample a long time ago, modeling it on the existing Enrollment Control Report. Then, believe it or not, we sort of forgot about it. (Yes, that happens.)

The report is actually a pretty cool feature. If you use check-in, you can wait until after everyone should be checked in for a given hour, run the report and have an alphabetical list of everyone who has checked in, along with the  name and location of their class and their attend type. See! I told you it was a cool report.

It actually looks at attendance, not whether you used check-in or not. So, you can run the report for any group of organizations to get a list of everyone marked present for a given date.

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