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Leaders' Guide: Groups

Taking Group Attendance

Mark attendance for your group by recording who attended or entering a head count, and use attendance patterns to plan future events and care for people. Use attendance profiles to manage multiple groups, print attendance marking sheets if you prefer paper, and review individual attendance history when needed.

As a group leader, you may be asked to mark attendance. Understanding attendance patterns helps your leadership plan future events and ministries, and it helps them spot people who may need follow-up or care during a difficult season.

You can mark attendance for an event starting four hours before it begins, and for past events at any time.

Tip:
  • Attendance profiles — If you lead more than one group, ask your administrator to set up an attendance profile covering all of them. You can then mark one group at a time without opening each group's event list.
  • Printed marking sheets — You can take roll on paper first and enter it later. Sheets print as a PDF for a group's whole month of events, and anything already marked prints pre-marked. To print, on the Participant's tab, click the printer icon>Attendance Marking Sheet. If you're marking attendance for multiple groups and have an attendance profile, your admin can print attendance sheets for multiple groups.
    partial screenshot showing the ability to print an attendance sheet is in the printer icon drop-down list.
  • One person's history — On your group's roster, hover over the ellipsis icon next to someone's attendance percentage to see a snapshot of their attendance.
  1. In the top-left corner, click your site name then Connect. Then click Groups. Then click your group's name.
  2. Find the event you want to mark, click the ellipsis icon next to it, then select Mark Attendance.
  3. Record who was there.

    • By name. Select the check box beside each person who attended. The running total displays at the top. If the meeting was both in person and virtual, select how each person attended.

    • As a head count. Click the Total field at the top, enter a number, then click Done.

    Note: If you record a head count and later mark people by name, the two are combined in the total. You'll need to adjust the number so the total stays accurate.
  4. Optional: To add someone who isn't on the roster, such as a guest, click Add Person. To find someone quickly in a long roster, click the magnifying glass icon and start entering their name.
Individuals listed in the Other category (located at the bottom of the page) were added to the group after the event date for which you are recording attendance. If you mark them present, their date of admission to the group will be rolled back to this date, regardless of when you might have added them to the roster.

Last updated: August 24, 2026