TrackCC app version history
iOS app
Version 4.8
Apr 7, 2021
- Notifications for self-reported attendance
- Teacher sees a notification when students self-reports attendance
- Enables entirely hands-off attendance recording for the teacher
- Administrator access via the app
- Bug fixes
Version 4.7.1
Version 4.7
Jan 29, 2021
- Self-reported attendance:
- Teacher places printed QR code at classroom entrance
- Students use TrackCC app to scan QR code to self-check-in
- Teacher sees self-reported attendance appear in real time on the app
- This frees teacher from the time-consuming step of recording attendance manually
- Works for both in-person and online classes (QR code can be sent e.g. by email)
- Students can use app to self-report absence, and include a note to teacher
- Self-reporting options:
- The QR code can be different per class and can be changed daily
- Teacher will get location where QR code was scanned
- The QR code can also be used for check-out from class
- Students can be asked to do survey at check-in (e.g. for COVID symptoms)
- Students can be asked to do a post-class survey when check-out is used
- Attendance can be recorded without QR code (e.g. if QR code is damaged)
Version 4.6
Version 4.5
Aug 29, 2020
- Mark student as “Inactive”
- Instead of deleting a student, you can mark a student as “Inactive” from a given date
- An inactive student is not shown on the daily attendance, behavior & grading panels
- This allows you to retain the student history which is lost if you delete the student
- You can reactivate the student if the student returns from a temporary absence
- Allow school teachers to customize their own behavior and grading items
- In a multi-teacher school, two new options in “School settings”:
- Allow teachers to customize Behavior?
- Allow teachers to customize Grading?
- Examples:
- Music school admin can standardize behavior & grading across all teachers
- College admin can allow teachers to customize their own behavior & grading
- Bug fixes
Version 4.4
Jul 14, 2020
- School calendar
- Create calendar events per-class, per teacher, per school
- Share real-time school calendar with students & guardians
- Students with multiple teachers will see a combined calendar
- Calendar data includes title, class, date, time, location, image, URL and notes
- Notification updates
- Automatic notifications now work across all TrackCC functions:
- Attendance
- Behavior
- Grading
- Student notes
- Class notes
- Calendar
- All student data updates can trigger app, email or text notifications
- Each student and guardian can be configured to receive only certain notifications
- Usability improvements
- Bug fixes
Version 4.3
Jan 14, 2020
- Time in class
- The app records time stamps for attendance check-in & check-out
- You can now optionally keep track of time in class
- Example: check-in = 9:01 am, check-out = 3:15 pm, time in class = 6:14
- Statistics can show aggregated time in class per defined period, e.g. per week
- Record attendance using barcode scanner
- Scan barcode or QR code from a student ID card
- Use device camera as scanner, or use Bluetooth scanner
- Record both attendance check-in and check-out using scanner
- Some scanners are always on, suitable for student self-check-in / check-out
- Record attendance using NFC reader
- Scan programmed value or NFC serial number from a student ID card
- Use device as NFC reader, or use Bluetooth NFC reader
- Record both attendance check-in and check-out using NFC reader
- Bluetooth NFC reader is perfect for student self-check-in / check-out
- Show text next to attendance icons to clarify type when there’s room
- Option to record attendance & behavior time stamps with 1 second accuracy
- Bug fixes
Version 4.2.2
Oct 16, 2019
- Fix to allow app to work in the dark mode of iOS 13
Version 4.2.1
Oct 15, 2019
- Record attendance by scanning barcode for student ID
- Support for any iOS compatible scanner
- Student ID cards can have either barcode or QR code
- Allows ID to be keyed in with keypad if scanner does not work
- Show time stamp when attendance was recorded (similar to behavior)
- Edit recorded time stamps for attendance & behavior
- App, email and text notifications for students
- Parent is now called Guardian / Advisor
- Better performance when Guardian / Advisor has 100’s of students
- Bug fixes
Version 4.1
Aug 18, 2019
- Multi-class statistics for school administrator
- Send SMS messages to group of students or parents
- Per-class grading symbols
- Bug fixes
Version 4.0.1
Version 4.0
June 12, 2019
- Support for multi-teacher schools
- Administrator sets up the school
- Teachers get their own assigned classes
- All class data is shared in real time
- Automatic sync across multiple devices
- Automatic backup to cloud
- School terms
- Replaces school years
- Enables multiple terms per year
- School terms can also run in parallel
- Email tool
- Send emails to students or parents
- Include images and attachments
- Copy self to keep an email archive
- User interface updates
- Bug fix
Version 3.7.2
Version 3.7.1
Version 3.7
Feb 20, 2019
- Student reports
- History view: chronological feed of all recorded items
- Statistics view: one-page summary of attendance, behavior and grading statistics
- View / print / email / share student report by period
- The “Student report” view replaces the existing student and parent functionality
- Separate positive & negative point statistics for behavior
- Teachers can now access future dates for advance attendance notices etc.
- Less disruptive multi-device sync
- Better compatibility with website version
- Performance enhancements
- Usability & graphics updates
Version 3.6.1
Nov 9, 2018
- Bug fix: allow teacher data to be recorded when there’s no internet connection
Version 3.6
Oct 31, 2018
- Share access to class data by colleague
- Colleague gets access to your attendance, behavior and grading data
- The colleague can be a fellow teacher or an administrator
- The access is per class, is view-only and data can be refreshed in real time
- There is no limit on the number of colleagues whose class you can have access to
- Record attendance both in “Student view” and in “Attendance view”
- Bug fixes
Version 3.5
June 25, 2018
- Student notes
- Write individual notes per student per day
- Attach a photo to each student’s daily note
- Notes can be shared with parents
- Keeps historical log of all notes for school term
- New "Attendance view"
- Allows toggling between “Student view” / “Attendance view”
- Similar to “Student view” / “Behavior view"
- Groups students by attendance type
- Shows how many students were marked as Present, Absent etc.
- Bug fixes
Version 3.4
March 20, 2018
- Quicker account creation
- Way to change account email
- Simplified way to invite parents
- Performance boost for big classes
- Bug fixes
Version 3.3
September 1, 2017
- Ability to send notifications to parents via text message
- Parent does not need to create an account or download the app
- All you need is the parent’s phone number
- Whenever you mark a student e.g. as “Absent - unexcused” on the app, the parent will get a text message
- The text will come from a new phone number so it won’t use your phone’s data plan
- You can personalize the text message, e.g. to include a way to contact you back
- You can customize which attendance / behavior notifications will trigger a text message
- New optional attendance feature: check-out
- Check-in: record attendance at the start of the class
- Check-out: record attendance at the end of the class
- Handy to keep track which students have been picked up by a parent
- Bug fixes
Version 3.2
Version 3.1
March 24, 2017
- You can now add up to 26 custom behavior and grading items
- Previously the limit was 12
- The items can be different per class
- Allow use of different symbols for grading items and for overall grade
- E.g. allow A+, A and A- etc. when assigning daily individual grades
- But show just A, B, C, D, F when calculating per period overall grades
- A new switch in “Settings” to calculate overall grade in one of two ways
- An average of each grading item first calculated as a percentage
- A percentage calculated by first adding cumulative points / max points together
- Bug fixes
Version 3.0
February 24, 2017
- Set grading symbols per grading item, for example:
- A = 90 - 100.0%
- B = 80 - 89.9%
- C = 70 - 79.9%
- D = 60 - 69.9%
- F = 0 - 59.9%
- Set how much each grading item contributes toward the overall grade, for example:
- 15% = Daily homework
- 25% = Pop quiz
- 40% = Class exam
- 20% = Term project
- 0% = Standardized test
- With these two new grading options, and the use of “Periods”, you can assign grades for your students:
- Overall grade for the week
- Overall grade for the month
- Overall grade for the semester
- Overall grade for the school term
- Notes:
- The grading symbols can be any letter or number system, mapped to percentages per trading item
- You can have as many grading symbols as you wish (A+, A, A-, B+, B, B- etc.)
- The app will calculate the weighted % for each student and assign the grading symbol as the “Overall grade”
- As the periods can overlap, you can show the “Overall grade” for each period for each student
- Bug fixes
Version 2.9
January 20, 2017
- Quicker way to add grades for whole class
- New toolbar buttons: Grading view / Student view
- Enter grades for the chosen grading item for all students on same panel
- Easier method to award points for multiple students for a specific behavior
- New toolbar buttons: Behavior view / Student view
- Add / subtract points for a chosen behavior item for all students on the same panel
- New “School term = Other”
- Can be used with schools with no class levels
- School term can now be changed after creating the class
- Bug fixes
Version 2.8
January 3, 2017
- Search class notes
- Export CSV for parents, students
- New attendance status: Left early
- Finnish language support
- Bug fixes
Version 2.7
November 1, 2016
- Student statistics can be exported as CSV
- Export class notes as CSV
- Period selection for CSV export
- Easy way to invite colleagues to try TrackCC
- Bug fixes
Version 2.6
October 20, 2016
- Quick attendance: tap left icon in student list
- Behavior statistics by class
- Grading statistics by class
- “Show pct. / Show days” toolbar button in
- Class “Attendance Statistics” panel
- Individual “Attendance Statistics” panel
- “Name format” option in teacher settings
- Firstname Lastname
- Lastname, Firstname
- Additional “Sort list” options, sort by
- Name
- Gender, then by name
- Age
- Student ID
- Add parent emails without inviting
- Print, text or email “Student reports” via Print/Share toolbar button
- In individual student statistics panels (iPhone & iPad)
- In class statistics panels (iPad only)
- Export student list as CSV
- Improved sync performance
- Bug fixes
Version 2.5
September 30, 2016
- Class-level customization of behavior and grading items
- Export attendance, behavior & grading data as CSV
- Class-wide statistics for attendance per period
- Add students via file upload at TrackCC.org
- Sort student list by first name, last name or gender
- Easier way to show statistics by period
- Student info can now include phone number for student, parents
- Bug fixes
Version 2.4
August 24, 2016
- Non-email accounts for students
- Enables TrackCC access for younger students who don’t yet have real email accounts
- Teacher controls access and can reset the password
- Students can follow their own statistics for attendance, behavior & grading
- Change password / Reset password
- Have a new password emailed to you if you forgot your password
- Change your password on the app
- Bug fixes
Version 2.3
July 27, 2016
- Push notifications for parents
- Get instant notifications when your student is:
- Recorded as Present / Absent / Late
- Assigned behavior points
- Given grades for homework, quiz or class exams
- Reminded of homework or upcoming events via “Class notes"
- Turn notifications On / Off
- Customize which notifications you want
- Teacher can now delete behavior points assigned earlier
- Pinch zoom for all photos
- Usability improvements
- Bug fixes
Version 2.2
June 20, 2016
- Class notes
- Record daily class notes
- Notes can be a class story for today, or reminders for tomorrow
- Customize class notes with a photo
- View class notes history by date
- Share daily class notes with students and parents
Version 2.1
May 20, 2016
- Track class attendance
- Customizable attendance legend, e.g.:
- Present
- Absent - excused
- Absent - unexcused
- Tardy / late
- View attendance by date
- View attendance statistics by student
- Share attendance data with parent
- Track class behavior
- Customizable behavior legend, e.g.:
- Teamwork
- Participation
- Follows instruction
- Persistence
- View behavior by date
- View behavior statistics by student
- Share behavior data with parent
- Track class grading
- Customizable grading legend, e.g.:
- Homework
- Pop quiz
- Class exam
- Term project
- View grading by date
- View grading statistics by student
- Share grading data with parent
Version 1.4
August 10, 2015
- Teacher functionality is now free
- Bug fixes
Version 1.3
June 23, 2015
- School administrator function
- View school-wide statistics by:
- Subject
- Grade
- Teacher
- Student
- Filter data by:
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- IEP
- ESL
- Free / reduced lunch
- Sample administrator account
Version 1.2
June 3, 2015
- More scoring systems:
- Pass / Fail
- Green / Yellow / Red
- 4-3-2-1
- A-B-C-D-F
- Customize how student & class averages are calculated
- Assign custom percentages per score
- Assign bonus points for top students
Version 1.1
April 7, 2015
- Teacher functionality now available in the app
- Sample accounts for Students / Parents / Teachers
Version 1.0
Android app
Version 4.8
Apr 7, 2021
- Notifications for self-reported attendance
- Teacher sees a notification when students self-reports attendance
- Enables entirely hands-off attendance recording for the teacher
- Administrator access via the app
- Bug fixes
Version 4.7.1
Version 4.7
Jan 29, 2021
- Self-reported attendance:
- Teacher places printed QR code at classroom entrance
- Students use TrackCC app to scan QR code to self-check-in
- Teacher sees self-reported attendance appear in real time on the app
- This frees teacher from the time-consuming step of recording attendance manually
- Works for both in-person and online classes (QR code can be sent e.g. by email)
- Students can use app to self-report absence, and include a note to teacher
- Self-reporting options:
- The QR code can be different per class and can be changed daily
- Teacher will get location where QR code was scanned
- The QR code can also be used for check-out from class
- Students can be asked to do survey at check-in (e.g. for COVID symptoms)
- Students can be asked to do a post-class survey when check-out is used
- Attendance can be recorded without QR code (e.g. if QR code is damaged)
Version 4.6.3
Version 4.6.2
Version 4.5
Aug 29, 2020
- Mark student as “Inactive”
- Instead of deleting a student, you can mark a student as “Inactive” from a given date
- An inactive student is not shown on the daily attendance, behavior & grading panels
- This allows you to retain the student history which is lost if you delete the student
- You can reactivate the student if the student returns from a temporary absence
- Allow school teachers to customize their own behavior and grading items
- In a multi-teacher school, two new options in “School settings”:
- Allow teachers to customize Behavior?
- Allow teachers to customize Grading?
- Examples:
- Music school admin can standardize behavior & grading across all teachers
- College admin can allow teachers to customize their own behavior & grading
- Bug fixes
Version 4.4
Jul 14, 2020
- School calendar
- Create calendar events per-class, per teacher, per school
- Share real-time school calendar with students & guardians
- Students with multiple teachers will see a combined calendar
- Calendar data includes title, class, date, time, location, image, URL and notes
- Notification updates
- Automatic notifications now work across all TrackCC functions:
- Attendance
- Behavior
- Grading
- Student notes
- Class notes
- Calendar
- All student data updates can trigger app, email or text notifications
- Each student and guardian can be configured to receive only certain notifications
- Usability improvements
- Bug fixes
Version 4.3
Jan 14, 2020
- Time in class
- The app records time stamps for attendance check-in & check-out
- You can now optionally keep track of time in class
- Example: check-in = 9:01 am, check-out = 3:15 pm, time in class = 6:14
- Statistics can show aggregated time in class per defined period, e.g. per week
- Record attendance using barcode scanner
- Scan barcode or QR code from a student ID card
- Use device camera as scanner, or use Bluetooth scanner
- Record both attendance check-in and check-out using scanner
- Some scanners are always on, suitable for student self-check-in / check-out
- Record attendance using NFC reader
- Scan programmed value or NFC serial number from a student ID card
- Use device as NFC reader, or use Bluetooth NFC reader
- Record both attendance check-in and check-out using NFC reader
- Bluetooth NFC reader is perfect for student self-check-in / check-out
- Show text next to attendance icons to clarify type when there’s room
- Option to record attendance & behavior time stamps with 1 second accuracy
- Bug fixes
Version 4.2.3
Version 4.2.2
Version 4.2.1
Oct 15, 2019
- Record attendance by scanning barcode for student ID
- Support for any iOS compatible scanner
- Student ID cards can have either barcode or QR code
- Allows ID to be keyed in with keypad if scanner does not work
- Show time stamp when attendance was recorded (similar to behavior)
- Edit recorded time stamps for attendance & behavior
- App, email and text notifications for students
- Parent is now called Guardian / Advisor
- Better performance when Guardian / Advisor has 100’s of students
- Bug fixes
Version 4.1
Aug 18, 2019
- Multi-class statistics for school administrator
- Send SMS messages to group of students or parents
- Per-class grading symbols
- Bug fixes
Version 4.0.1
Version 4.0
June 12, 2019
- Support for multi-teacher schools
- Administrator sets up the school
- Teachers get their own assigned classes
- All class data is shared in real time
- Automatic sync across multiple devices
- Automatic backup to cloud
- School terms
- Replaces school years
- Enables multiple terms per year
- School terms can also run in parallel
- Email tool
- Send emails to students or parents
- Include images and attachments
- Copy self to keep an email archive
- User interface updates
- Bug fix
Version 3.7.1
Version 3.7
Feb 20, 2019
- Student reports
- History view: chronological feed of all recorded items
- Statistics view: one-page summary of attendance, behavior and grading statistics
- View / print / email / share student report by period
- The “Student report” view replaces the existing student and parent functionality
- Separate positive & negative point statistics for behavior
- Teachers can now access future dates for advance attendance notices etc.
- Less disruptive multi-device sync
- Better compatibility with website version
- Performance enhancements
- Usability & graphics updates
Version 3.6.2
Version 3.6.1
Version 3.6
Oct 31, 2018
- Share access to class data by colleague
- Colleague gets access to your attendance, behavior and grading data
- The colleague can be a fellow teacher or an administrator
- The access is per class, is view-only and data can be refreshed in real time
- There is no limit on the number of colleagues whose class you can have access to
- Record attendance both in “Student view” and in “Attendance view”
- Bug fixes
Version 3.5
June 25, 2018
- Student notes
- Write individual notes per student per day
- Attach a photo to each student’s daily note
- Notes can be shared with parents
- Keeps historical log of all notes for school term
- New "Attendance view"
- Allows toggling between “Student view” / “Attendance view”
- Similar to “Student view” / “Behavior view"
- Groups students by attendance type
- Shows how many students were marked as Present, Absent etc.
- Bug fixes
Version 3.4
March 20, 2018
- Initial release
- Compatible with iOS version 3.4
macOS app
Version 4.8
Apr 7, 2021
- Notifications for self-reported attendance
- Teacher sees a notification when students self-reports attendance
- Enables entirely hands-off attendance recording for the teacher
- Administrator access via the app
- Bug fixes
Version 4.7.1
Version 4.7
Jan 29, 2021
- Self-reported attendance:
- Teacher places printed QR code at classroom entrance
- Students use TrackCC app to scan QR code to self-check-in
- Teacher sees self-reported attendance appear in real time on the app
- This frees teacher from the time-consuming step of recording attendance manually
- Works for both in-person and online classes (QR code can be sent e.g. by email)
- Students can use app to self-report absence, and include a note to teacher
- Self-reporting options:
- The QR code can be different per class and can be changed daily
- Teacher will get location where QR code was scanned
- The QR code can also be used for check-out from class
- Students can be asked to do survey at check-in (e.g. for COVID symptoms)
- Students can be asked to do a post-class survey when check-out is used
- Attendance can be recorded without QR code (e.g. if QR code is damaged)
Version 4.6
Version 4.5
Aug 29, 2020
- Mark student as “Inactive”
- Instead of deleting a student, you can mark a student as “Inactive” from a given date
- An inactive student is not shown on the daily attendance, behavior & grading panels
- This allows you to retain the student history which is lost if you delete the student
- You can reactivate the student if the student returns from a temporary absence
- Allow school teachers to customize their own behavior and grading items
- In a multi-teacher school, two new options in “School settings”:
- Allow teachers to customize Behavior?
- Allow teachers to customize Grading?
- Examples:
- Music school admin can standardize behavior & grading across all teachers
- College admin can allow teachers to customize their own behavior & grading
- Bug fixes
Version 4.4
Jul 14, 2020
- School calendar
- Create calendar events per-class, per teacher, per school
- Share real-time school calendar with students & guardians
- Students with multiple teachers will see a combined calendar
- Calendar data includes title, class, date, time, location, image, URL and notes
- Notification updates
- Automatic notifications now work across all TrackCC functions:
- Attendance
- Behavior
- Grading
- Student notes
- Class notes
- Calendar
- All student data updates can trigger app, email or text notifications
- Each student and guardian can be configured to receive only certain notifications
- Usability improvements
- Bug fixes
Version 4.3
Jan 14, 2020
- Time in class
- The app records time stamps for attendance check-in & check-out
- You can now optionally keep track of time in class
- Example: check-in = 9:01 am, check-out = 3:15 pm, time in class = 6:14
- Statistics can show aggregated time in class per defined period, e.g. per week
- Record attendance using barcode scanner
- Scan barcode or QR code from a student ID card
- Use device camera as scanner, or use Bluetooth scanner
- Record both attendance check-in and check-out using scanner
- Some scanners are always on, suitable for student self-check-in / check-out
- Record attendance using NFC reader
- Scan programmed value or NFC serial number from a student ID card
- Use device as NFC reader, or use Bluetooth NFC reader
- Record both attendance check-in and check-out using NFC reader
- Bluetooth NFC reader is perfect for student self-check-in / check-out
- Show text next to attendance icons to clarify type when there’s room
- Option to record attendance & behavior time stamps with 1 second accuracy
- Bug fixes
Version 4.2.2
Oct 30, 2019
- Compatible with iOS and Android apps