Taking attendance with an iPhone

I heard about this iPhone application from a friend that has been using it for the last year. Having played with it myself, I have to admit that it seems very impressive.

You can find more information about it here: http://bit.ly/e0M9eo
It has a features list as long as my arm, but I have picked out some of my favourite features here:

• • importing a CSV file stored in your Dropbox/Attendance folder (see http://www.dropbox.com)
  • manual entry of names via virtual keyboard
• Unlimited number of courses and students per course
  • sort students by last name or first name
  • manually re-order students to match a seating order
• Customizable attendance statuses
  • defaults statuses: Absent,Present,Late,Excused
• Photo support
  
  • take photo on iPhone
  • optionally view photos next to name while taking attendance
• Email reports and compose emails to students
  • full spreadsheet report
  • records for a day
  • send email to all students in a course
  • send email to students who are absent on a given day
  • email individual attendance reports to each student
• Backup your data
  • backup/restore from your Dropbox account
• Choose random students
  • choose individual students for answering questions
  • create random groups of sizes 2-30 (and email group members to yourself)

I am a massive fan of dropbox, so to be able to send information to and from my iPhone to my desktop and have everything synced is a real bonus for me. The other thing that stands out for me is being able to put students photos with their names!! To me, this says, "Never forget a students name again!"
I will be posting again soon with a step-by-step guide (primarily for my students to follow) showing how I want students to register their information during the first class of the year.