Free Student and Teacher Attendance Software

Students and teachers clock themselves in — by face, on a tablet by the door, or from their own phone. The register is done before the lesson starts.

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The same records work for your teachers.

Attendance for students and hours for staff come out of one system, so nobody reconstructs a month from memory at payroll time.

Automatic teacher timesheets

Timesheets that fill themselves in

Teaching and support staff clock in the same way students do. Worked hours, breaks, cover and overtime are calculated as the week goes, against the schedule you set — not typed up on a Friday afternoon.

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Cover, leave and absence in one place

Requests come in, balances update, and approvals are logged with who signed them off. When a teacher is out, you can see who covered the lesson and for how long, which is the part that usually goes missing.

Leave and time off →
Leave requests and balances
Reports and payroll export

Reports the office and payroll both accept

Filter by teacher, department, campus or pay period. Export to CSV or XLS for payroll, and keep the attendance side — lateness, repeated absence, hours per class — in the same report set rather than a separate spreadsheet.

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Time against projects, subjects and activities

Students log hours against a coursework project, a lab or a placement; staff log theirs against a department, a club or an activity. Set the list once and everyone picks from it when they clock in, so a term's effort is broken down without anyone keeping a separate spreadsheet.

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Tracking time against projects and activities

Six ways to take the register. Pick the ones that suit your school.

Run them on a shared tablet by the door or on students' own phones. Mix per class, per campus or per year group — however a student clocks in, it lands in the same record.

Face recognition

Face recognition

A student holds up the device, the face is matched against the registered one, and the entry saves with the photo attached. 

 GPS & geofencing

GPS & geofencing

Draw a boundary around the campus. Arriving clocks students in, and every entry carries its coordinates.

 NFC tags

NFC tags

Tap a tag against the phone or tablet by the classroom door. No app to open, no queue at the front desk.

 RFID cards

RFID cards

Existing student ID cards work as they are. One tap on the reader is the whole clock-in.

 PIN code

PIN code

A four-digit PIN on the shared kiosk, for anywhere cameras are not allowed. Nothing to carry or lose.

 QR codes

QR codes

Every student and teacher gets their own QR code. Hold it up to the kiosk and the register updates.
Free forever · Unlimited students and staff

Every student, every teacher, no per-seat cost

A thirty-student class or a campus of twelve thousand — it is free for all, no user cap. Groups per year, course or campus, and role-based access for admins and teachers.

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What changes for the school office with Jibble.

Attendance still gets taken. It just stops eating up somebody's afternoon.

Paper roll sheet passed around, typed up at lunch
Attendance fills itself in as students arrive
Chasing teachers for absence days
Missed clock-ins are flagged to the class teacher
Late arrivals penciled into the margin
An exact arrival time on every entry
Adding up staff hours the day before payroll
Timesheets totalled as the week goes
Absence patterns noticed at the end of the semester
Repeated absence visible in the weekly report
A separate spreadsheet for each campus
One record across every campus and grade

Before a school switches, it asks four things.

"Will students actually use it?"

They clock themselves in on a tablet by the door as they walk past — a glance, no card, no code, no queue. A full class is registered in under a minute in speed mode, which is faster than the lesson starting without it.

Jibble's timesheets are great for keeping track of attendance. I love that I can use the app to easily create a kiosk with any tablet. It has been great and works well online and offline.

Martin M — Director of Programs, Education Management

"Can we trust what it says?"

Facial recognition verifies each student before the entry saves, and a geofence keeps clock-ins on campus. Teachers can override anything, and every override records who changed it and when.

This tool allows us to monitor attendance when teachers are not coming into the building. It is a great way to have all staff "check in" each morning. Administrators can review daily attendance on timesheets to see who is working and who is not.

Imani H — Principal Intern, Education Management

"Does it cover staff too?"

The same records cover teaching and support staff. Cover hours, overtime and leave are calculated as they happen and export to payroll, so nobody reconstructs a month from memory.

Jibble's timesheets make monitoring work hours for teachers extremely easy. It is a huge boost for the productivity of our team!

Fernanda T — School Services Analyst, Education Management

"What does it cost at our size?"

Nothing, at any size. Free forever for unlimited students and staff, with groups per year, course or campus and role-based access for admins and teachers. Universities including Harvard run on it.

There are a lot of reasons I like Jibble. One of course is the price. The other is that there is a mobile app available. It has helped my students not only with project time tracking, but also prepares them for the workforce.

Don H — Instructor, Education Management
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FAQs

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There is plenty of student attendance tracking software. Very few are seamless to use, very few are free, and only one is both. That is Jibble, the highest-rated attendance app by user reviews, which is why universities such as Harvard use it.
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